The sum of £8bn encompasses the sum the government has had to write off and the interest it has to pay on the stock of debt it holds

Deutshe Boerse and NYSE's proposal to create the world's largest exchange operator was rejected by European anti-trust authorities yesterday (1 February), for fear that it would create "a near-monopoly" on derivatives trading. More »

Four jihadis pled guilty today in a London courthouse to to planning a terrorist attack on the London Stock Exchange, Mayor Boris Johnson's home and the homes of two London rabbis. Mohammed Chowdhury, 21; Shah Rahman, 28; Gurukanth Desai, 30; and Abdul Miah, 25, all pled guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London today, and five other men involved in the conspiracy pled guilty to other terroris...

What a bloody mess !!   Until Gordon Brown (Badly Knitted Man) came along, our banks worked mostly very well for themselves and for our nation, with the Bank of England being the world's most revered financial institution.   Gordon Brown took away the safety regulations and then encouraged banks, especially RBS, to take enormous risks with their investments and stock sharing, whilst...

RBS’s award of a £963,000 bonus to Stephen Hester has provoked anger. A chart of stock prices shows one reason why. In the last 12 months, RBS’s share price has underperformed the market; it has also underperformed two of its three main peers – HSBC and Barclays but not Lloyds. Insofar as Hester’s job is

But Labour will adopt one good policy. They will bring back rent controls. Facepalm. Second only to aerial bombing in a major war as a successful method of reducing the available housing stock. Doesn’t anyone actually remember? The 70s, early 80s? When it was near impossible to find rental property anywhere in the country? Who

Jury hears tycoon secretly bought shares to support conglomerate’s stock price and expensive properties

People should start stock-piling stamps now ahead of an expected steep price rise in April, the official consumer watchdog has said.

As the European Parliament prepares this week to elect its president for the second-half of the current legislature, EurActiv asked leading MEPs to take stock of progress made so far and challenges lying ahead of the next European elections in 2014. Frustration over national leaders' management of the economic crisis and the need to tackle the rising wave of euroscepticism top their conc...

Mounting speculation that a leading credit agency is to imminently downgrade the ratings of a number of eurozone countries drove global markets sharply lower and sent the euro currency spinning down to a 17-month low.