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The takeover roundabout never stops

There was much tut-tutting on Monday when Sainsbury's shares crashed after the putative bidders from Qatar walked away. Read

Midland homes set to plummet in value

House prices in the West Midlands are in line for some of the most severe falls in Britain in the aftermath of the global credit crunch. Read

Brown could have stopped Rock crisis, says King

The run on Northern Rock could have been prevented by Gordon Brown, in his days as Chancellor, says Bank of England governor Mervyn King. Read

Northern Rock crisis failed to jolt confidence

Queues at Northern Rock, spreading financial turmoil from the American sub-prime meltdown, and reports of falling house prices have so far failed to dent widespread confidence that the present economic malaise will be short-lived. Read

A model answer to the disappearing dollar

If you require the services of Gisele Bundchen, from now on you will have to pay her in euros. Dollars are no longer good enough for the German supermodel and she has not yet got round to demanding gold. Read

Picking the bones out of the American nightmare

America's dreaded sub-prime skeletons were again rattling stock markets on both sides of the Pond yesterday. Read

Why house prices 'slump' isn't all as it seems

This is not how it was advertised. House prices were supposed to lose their fizz this autumn as last year's interest rate increases began to bite and banks and building societies stopped people buying homes they could not afford. Read

House prices still going up

Slackening activity in the housing market has failed to check the upward march of house prices, which jumped by a totally unexpected 1.1 per cent between September and October, according to Nationwide. Read

Rupee shaping the new world

You never thought you would read this. The strength of the Indian rupee - yes, the strong rupee - was blamed yesterday for the biggest share price fall in the Footsie 100. Read

Darling to keep 'tripartite' system

Chancellor Alistair Darling has decided not to change the widely criticised "tripartite" system for regulating banks and safeguarding financial stability. Read

Housing market may prompt us to save again

Northern Rock was a terrible business. It cast a question mark over the City of London's status as a global financial centre where they get things right and a bigger one over the competence of the Bank of England,the Financial Services Authority, and the Treasury. Read

Credit crunch shockwaves still hurting

The world's advanced economies are still vulnerable to the after-effects of the credit crunch, although the strength of Britain's banks should help restore confidence. Read

Making a sucker of the mighty American consumer

Well, it isn't over yet. Until yesterday, the actual losses from the great American sub-prime scandal - as opposed to the knock-on effects in money markets round the world - looked rather less dreadful than you might have thought. Read

BP rides out the bad news

Bad news is good news so often on the stock market that it has become a truism. Read

Sub-prime mishap a necessary evil

History has not repeated itself this morning, 20 years on from Black Monday. Read

Credit crunch and Rock turmoil bypass shoppers

Shoppers shrugged aside news of the global credit crunch, the run on Northern Rock and reports of alarming personal debt to give retail sales their biggest boost for three years. Read

November hopes for interest rate cut

News that the Bank of England's interest-rate committee voted on a proposal to cut interest rates earlier this month, led to suggestions that the cost of borrowing could come down as early as November. Read

Financial system not the Bank's responsibility

The good news from the Bank of England yesterday is that things could be a lot worse. Read

Money is thicker than water - but a lot bloodier

Money is like water, albeit usually harder to come by. It finds it own level. Read

Foseco sold for £497m

Cookson clinched its bid for Foseco yesterday when the Tamworth company recommended its bid for 295p a share 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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