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This is Money
Saturday
US incomes jumped last month as President Barack Obamas $787 billion economic stimulus took effect but Americans stashed their cash in bank accounts rather than spending it.
US stimulus goes into accounts, not tills
Aside from horrific unemployment figures, falling house prices and a public sector deficit that threatens to push public debt above 60 per cent by next year, there are also some highly toxic assets on the balance sheets of the countrys banks, a fact clearly worrying credit rating agency Moodys if you consider its multi-streamed downgrade of the Spanish banking industry last week.
Forget Latvia, what about Spain?
The Financial Services Authority has extended the current disclosure regime on short-selling of financial stocks indefinitely as part of its crackdown on market abuse.
Financial Services Authority extends ban on short selling
Oil giants will be forced to tussle for contracts worth an estimated $16bn (9.7bn) live on Iraqi television in a bizarre contest they fear could end up resembling a game show.
Iraqi oil contracts to be auctioned in live TV 'game show'
Sunday
Britain's national debt will quadruple to peaks only ever seen in the wake of the Second World War unless the Government takes drastic steps to address the pensions and ageing crisis, Standard & Poor's has warned.
UK's debt will quadruple unless drastic steps are taken, says S&P
Alistair Darling will deny Mervyn King the crucial powers he is demanding to prevent another financial meltdown until after the general election, the Observer has learnt.
Darling thwarts King's bid to take wider powers
Britain's supermarkets are using the property crash to seize sites for new stores in a land grab that could redefine the retail sector for years to come. The Observer has learned that all the major supermarkets are scouring retail parks where tenants have gone out of business, and buying empty high-street shops and pubs for new stores.
Supermarkets seize chance for land grab
Monday
The British economy shrank by more than 2pc in the first quarter, a bigger contraction than originally estimated, official figures are expected to show on Tuesday.
Recession 'worse than thought'
Taxpayers around the world still face potentially large losses because governments have failed to act quickly enough to remove toxic assets from the balance sheets of key banks, the world's leading central bankers warn today.
Recovery threatened by toxic assets still hidden in key banks
China's banks are veering out of control. The half-reformed economy of the People's Republic cannot absorb the $1,000bn (600bn) blitz of new lending issued since December.
China's banks are an accident waiting to happen to every one of us
Spiralling government debt around the world has prompted the creation of the first tradeable indices tracking the risks of countries defaulting.
Indices to track sovereign default risk