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Housing market reports leave us all confused

Nobody is rushing to buy a house today that they think will get a whole lot cheaper if they wait. And the banks are in no mood to encourage them. Read

Banks threatening to get even tougher with customers

Banks plan to turn the screw still tighter on both companies and private individuals in the coming months, demanding more security for their loans and setting ever more demanding credit-scoring standards. Read

West Midland house prices comparing well to rest of UK

West Midlands house prices have been standing up better than those in most of Britain in the sinking housing market better. Read

Decline goes on and it keeps getting tougher

We've had a slowdown, not a recession, in the UK as credit crunch arrived, but it is getting worse, says Nevill Boyd Maunsell. Read

Lloyds TSB to press on with HBOS deal, despite City rumours

Lloyds TSB insisted that it is pressing ahead with its all-share deal to buy HBOS, after a day of City talk that it was seeking to re-negotiate the terms sent HBOS shares into yet another dive. Read

Indian firm in takeover talks with Arden Partners

Birmingham stockbroker Arden Partners is staying in touch with the Indian financial services company with which it has been discussing a possible bid since the early summer. Read

Shopkeepers failing to see supposed retail revival

A grim survey from the CBI has contrasted starkly with official statistics pointing to a surprise retail revival. Read

HBOS misery could spell trouble for takeover

Short sellers have been targeting bank shares this year. We all know that. Read

Lloyds TSB loses its 'boring' tag - and its value

I have an interest to declare. I am a loser. Some time ago I bought some Lloyds TSB shares – that is why I have never written about it before. Read

King's explanation of 4.7pc inflation dashes hopes of interest rates cut

Hopes of early interest rate cuts to steady nerves in the new burst of financial turmoil have been dashed by the Bank of England’s governor Mervyn King. Read

New survey suggests house prices falling at slower rate

West Midland house prices fell by less than one per cent over the year to July, according to numbers from the Department for Communities and Local Government. Read

Why UK should avoid Lehman Brothers-style disaster

Birmingham Post Economics Editor Nevill Boyd Maunsell gives his views on the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. Read

CBI wants half-point cut in interest rate

The CBI is calling for a decisive half-point interest rate cut in November, while forecasting a shallow recession this winter before a gradual recovery next year. Read

What does doom-monger Blanchflower know that we don't?

David Blanchflower, the American academic on the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, who regularly votes for an interest rate cut, is convinced that unemployment is about to take off mercilessly and turn our banking and mortgage crisis into a raging recession. Read

OPEC ensure the search goes on for alternatives to oil

OPEC forced up the price of oil by its shock announcement that it was cutting down on production. Read

If we're lucky, we might miss the worst of the R-word

Be thankful to the Stock Exchange’s computer for crashing on Monday, sparing over-excited dealers from the folly of chasing the Paulson bounce. Read

Manufacturing output down again

Manufacturing output fell for a fifth month running between June and July, the longest stretch of monthly declines for seven years, according to official numbers. Read

Housing market needs slow turnaround not a quick fix

Don’t gloat at Gordon Brown struggling to head off challenges for his job as he writhes and wriggles his way through of the TUC and Labour conferences. Read

Wimbledon analogy doesn't add up on ownership issue

Ownership doesn’t matter. So we were first told after the stock market’s “big bang” a quarter of a century ago, when the Exchange’s rule book was decreed to be a clubby, illegal restrictive practice. Read

Mucklow targets more property as portfolio drops £41m in value

A&J Mucklow is preparing to buy commercial properties as soon as prices stop falling, despite writing down the value of its existing portfolio by £41.2 million. Read

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Nevill is The Birmingham Post's economics editor and based in the newspaper's London office.

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