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US Federal Reserve faces split if economy fails to pick up
The Federal Reserve risks a split over what to do should the US economy fail to regain momentum during the rest of the year, minutes of its last meeting suggest.
12 Jul 2011
FTSE suffers sharp fall on euro contagion fears
Financials and commodity stocks led a sharp fall on Britain's FTSE 100 on Tuesday as nervous investors extended a recent sell-off on heightened worries that Europe's debt problems would spread beyond Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
12 Jul 2011
US trade deficit tops $50bn on rising oil prices
The US trade deficit widened sharply in May, topping $50bn for the first time since October 2008, helped by surging oil prices, official data showed on Tuesday.
12 Jul 2011
Greece's Finance Minister speaks on the economy: highlights
Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos held a news conference on Tuesday on his return from a eurogroup meeting in Brussels to tackle the debt crisis and domestic policy. Here are the highlights of what he said.
12 Jul 2011
Whistleblowers can identify crises
Tim Harford: Insiders can help to prevent another financial meltdown.
12 Jul 2011
US slows global stock market rout
US markets marked time on Tuesday as investors took stock after the biggest two-day drop since March triggered by fears that the eurozone debt crisis was spreading to Italy and Spain.
12 Jul 2011
Italy and Spain must pray for a miracle
The financial authorities face systemic contagion unless they take immediate and dramatic action.
12 Jul 2011
The goods pushing inflation up
As Consumer Price Inflation dips unexpectedly in June, here are some of the items that have contributed to the fall, as well as the goods keeping CPI above the Bank of England's 2pc target.
12 Jul 2011
Surprise dip in UK inflation - reaction
As consumer price inflation dips unexpectedly in June, here's what the analysts have been saying.
12 Jul 2011
There's more to the UK economic data than bad news
“Statistics,” the Victorian writer Andrew Lang once observed, “are often used as a drunken man uses lamp posts. For support rather than illumination.”
12 Jul 2011
Banks fail entrepreneurs
Tim Harford: Government must do more to encourage new businesses.
12 Jul 2011
EU test for banks' stress
Interactive Business Bullet: Euro, UK prices, EU stress tests, Premier
12 Jul 2011
UK inflation dip 'kills' off chance of rate rise
Inflation in the UK eased last month as shops cut prices to lure in squeezed consumers, effectively "killing" off the chance of a rise in interest rates this year.
12 Jul 2011
City Desk Morning Briefing - Tuesday
All the latest and must-have information around the key business and economic issues of the day.
12 Jul 2011
Inflation to remain at a 30-month high
Infation is still running at a two–and–a–half year high, official figures are set to show today.
12 Jul 2011
Eurozone opens door to buyback of Greek bonds
Eurozone finance ministers opened the door to using the currency union's bailout fund to buy up distressed Greek bonds, thereby cutting the country's overall debt load as they scrambled to stop the debt crisis from spreading to Italy and Spain.
12 Jul 2011
Eurogroup statement on Greek debt crisis - in full
Eurozone finance ministers and officials met on Monday to discuss the options for solving Greece's debt crisis. Here is the text of their statement after the talks:
12 Jul 2011
UK economic recovery by region
The UK economic recovery will be led by London and the South East while regions more exposed to Government spending cuts will continue to lag behind, a report by PwC has revealed.
12 Jul 2011
Inflation: how to cut your household bills
The rise in inflation is being driven by a steep increase in the cost of food and fuel.
12 Jul 2011
Olympics will bring £750m boost to UK
The Olympic Games will deliver a £750m injection of consumer spending to the flagging British economy, according to a new report.
12 Jul 2011
Inflation: How to protect your savings
Inflation can reduce the spending power of your money but there are ways to reduce its most corrosive effects.
12 Jul 2011
A eurozone solution must be reached before Germans' summer break
It's time to drag your eyes away from Rupert Murdoch's blow-up here, just for a moment, to a rather more serious blow-up over the channel that threatens to engulf us in solid stuff of an entirely different calibre.
11 Jul 2011
The economic pain grows in Italy
Divisions at the heart of government are costing Italy the confidence of the world, says James Walston.
11 Jul 2011
Greece faces "summer of uncertainty"
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Italy was top of the agenda for Monday's meeting of European finance chiefs in Brussels after the country's fall in stocks sent the eurozone into a tailspin.
11 Jul 2011
The euro will end in tears
Tim Harford: why the single currency in its present form is doomed.
11 Jul 2011
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