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Sunday
The International Energy Agency has ordered an inquiry into whether the world could run out of oil, The Observer has learnt. It will consider whether fears about global shortages are real.
IEA probes fears that oil will run out
The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as we struggle to cope with the $200 barrel?
Oil: A global crisis
Just as they thought the worst was over, Wall Street's biggest investment banks are facing further losses of billions of dollars as new fears linked to the credit crunch emerge.
Wall Street tangled up in hedges
The amount of cash set to be raised through rights issues in Europe over the next few months marks a new trend.
The 50bn capital injection for business as cheap debt dries up
ECONOMISTS still expect further interest-rate cuts before the year-end in spite of sharply rising inflation and a warning from the International Monetary Fund this weekend that there is no scope to relax monetary policy in the short term.
Analysts predict Bank rate will be cut to 4.5%
Monday
Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned. However, Mr Soros warned that the oil bubble would not burst until both the US and Britain were in recession, after which prices could fall dramatically.
George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble
This is a period of wealth destruction. The people who make money will be few and far between. There will be a lot more money lost than made." When George Soros - the phenomenally successful hedge fund manager - says this, you know something is wrong, very wrong.
George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime'
The perfect storm that has swept oil prices to $132 a barrel may subside over the coming months as rising crude supply from unexpected corners of the world finally comes on stream, just as the global economic downturn begins to bite.
Oil's perfect storm may blow over
House prices are stuck in decline, with values slipping around the country for the eighth month in a row, according to the latest figures.
Nervous buyers hold back as house prices fall again
Tuesday
UBS is expecting more losses from its property exposure as the banks troubles widen beyond the United States to mortgage business in other countries.
UBS seeks SwFr16 billion amid fears of further losses
Arun Sarin, the chief executive of Vodafone, will stun the City today by announcing he is to step down from the helm of the mobile phone group, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Vodafone's Arun Sarin to stun City with early departure