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Saturday
Billions of euros of emergency loans will arrive in Athens within days, after the Greek Prime Minister officially requested assistance from fellow euro members and the International Monetary Fund.
Greece seeks aid from EU and IMF
Bail-out money will buy Greece only a year. The Greek prime minister's formal request for 45bn from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund should deal with its immediate financing needs. But there's still no hard promise of cash for year two.
Bail-out money will buy Greece only a year
It was a worse performance than the fourth quarter of 2009, when the economy emerged from recession with a 0.4pc increase in gross domestic product (GDP).
Britain's recovery slows with surprise fall in growth to 0.2pc
As former Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer has said several times, the era of "easy oil" is over. This means that the bulk of the oil that is left to exploit is to be found in the tar sands and in ultra-deep water and other marginal resources, such as the Arctic.
Peak oil predictions
Senior watchdog officials spent hours viewing pornographic material on government computers when they should have been regulating Wall Street during the worst fiscal crisis since the 1930s. The worst offenders were caught accessing thousands of images, spending up to eight hours a day looking at pornography and burning the inappropriate material on to scores of CDs and DVDs kept in boxes at the regulators offices.
Wall St regulators spent hours watching porn instead of monitoring crisis
Monday
GERMANY, France and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must act quickly to bail out Greece to prevent a slide in confidence in financial markets, Alistair Darling said yesterday. Treasury sources say privately that politicians and officials have sent mixed messages on the support package, which has made a difficult situation worse.
Greek meltdown in danger of spreading
Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has raised fresh obstacles to the 40bn (35bn) aid package for Greece, warning that Berlin will not transfer funds until Athens agrees to tougher terms.
Germany refuses to help Greece unless it agrees to tougher terms
Hot money is flooding into emerging economies at a rate which threatens the creation of property and financial bubbles similar to those that preceded the financial crisis, says Standard Chartered.
Liquidity surge threatens Asia credit crunch
After a brief tumble in February on fears that the Chinese economy was overheating, commodity prices resumed their upward trajectory. This has ensured mining shares kept moving higher - until two weeks ago.
Are metals prices heading for a fall?
The housing market continued to lose momentum this month as homes for sale came onto the market at a faster pace than new househunters, according to the property research group Hometrack.
Lack of potential buyers sees housing market slow
A damning verdict on the activities of Goldman Sachs and other investment banks was delivered by the chairman of a US Senate panel yesterday when it released emails showing Goldman officials discussed making "serious money" out of the sub-prime crisis.
Goldman 'bet against securities it sold to clients'