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Jun 24 2008
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling last night told the Daily Post that he was calling a halt to “rip-off” mortgage arrangement fees of up to £2,500....
May 28 2008
THE Government is seeking to improve its standing with the business community with the appointment of former CBI director general Adair Turner as chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA)....
May 21 2008
THE reverberations from the credit crunch will cause problems in the UK for the next few years, according to the billionaire investor George Soros....
Apr 2 2008
A SPECIALIST brownfield site clean-up firm with a Merseyside base has been bought in a deal that could be worth up to £9m....
Mar 25 2008
A LEADING business group has challenged Treasury growth estimates with its own more pessimistic forecasts of slowing growth and rising inflation....
Mar 19 2008
THE world’s stock markets endured another anxious day yesterday as the United States Federal Reserve moved to slash US interest rates by 0.75% and UK inflation figures rose sharply....
Mar 19 2008
MY Budget Day story read: “Drinkers and drivers of gas-guzzling cars pay to rescue poverty pledges” – which was undoubtedly true....
Mar 12 2008
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is expected to put green measures at the centre of his first Budget, with the motoring and aviation industries among his targets....
Feb 20 2008
ALISTAIR DARLING is clearly on the Rocks after his bungling over that troublesome bank – but I doubt Gordon Brown is preparing to scuttle him....
Feb 13 2008
WHEN Alistair Darling delivers his first Budget next month, there will be the usual stern warnings about the need to cap the pay of public sector workers....
