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The Times (Need to know)
FT
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This is Money
Saturday
A grim assessment of how the recession has affected the North of England has been published by a leading think-tank. IPPR North says that Northern cities have suffered from a "triple whammy" of blows: unemployment, already high, has become proportionately worse; inner-city regeneration schemes have been especially badly affected by the housing crash; and the coming cuts in public spending will also rob them of a boost in spending on the NHS, schools and universities.
North-South divide 'sharpened by slump'
Sunday
The pound will be stuck at near-parity against the euro for up to four years, according to a report from Ernst and Young Item Club. Britain is also likely to save more to protect it from future shocks, according to Professor Peter Spencer, the institution's chief economic adviser.
UK's budget deficit will leave pound weak until at least 2014
Government figures are expected to show the recession is over, but the Item Club says growth will not resume until 2012.
UK faces long 'VW-shaped' recovery
It recovered some ground in the summer, and there was a brief buying spree at the end of last week, after comments from Bank of England policymaker Andrew Fisher suggested that quantitative easing is working well. But against the currencies of our major trading partners, sterling is now worth almost 25% less than at the beginning of 2007.
Can a weak pound make Britain's economy strong again?
Rapidly rising unemployment in Britain's industrial heartlands has sent the real level of joblessness surging to well over 3m during the recession, according to a report to be published this week.
Britain's real jobless total 'more than 3m' says new report
BRITAINs financial authorities pledged to use all the tools available to catch market fraudsters after a landmark case in which investigators in America used wiretaps to bring down a multi-million dollar insider-trading ring.
FSA to step up hunt for market fraudsters
In a radical review of the mortgage market, the Financial Services Authority will launch plans to tighten up regulation and crack down on risky lending as part of reforms that will slow house price growth for a generation.
Era of cheap mortgages is over, British homeowners warned
At nearly eight months old, the current rally has proved to be more durable than many supposed. But the elevated expectations now have to be met. Now there is a different mindset. Spreads and stocks are pricing in a recovery timescale that would have seemed quite unlikely earlier this year.
CDS report: This rally has legs
Monday
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, known as the Vix, fell for a 10th consecutive day on Friday, its longest losing streak since May 2005, according to Bloomberg data.
US volatility index hits 13-month low
Britain runs the risk of driving foreign investors away and triggering a sterling crisis if the public finances are not brought under control by 2015-16, the CBI has warned.
Britain risks sterling crisis if public finances are not controlled, warns CBI
Britain has twice averted disaster over the past century by a timely ? if humiliating ? crash in sterling. In neither case was it obvious that this would lead to a decade-long revival in British fortunes.
A sterling crash is a godsend
Property asking prices in London have broken through the record high set in November 2007 as the drought of homes for sale around the country continues to distort the market.
London house prices surge past 2007 record high
Warm weather, growing confidence and currency conscious tourists produced a 7.5pc jump in like-for-like retail sales in central London stores and shops last month, the biggest growth for 13 months.
London retail sales jump 7.5pc