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Average UK house price down to £180,000

The value of the average British home has dropped to £180,344 – back to where it was in August, 2006. Read

More sellers than buyers in the shares market

If you have shares, prepare to shed them now. It is, of course, far too late, as it was for Mark Anthony. Caesar was already dead. Read

Gloomy prospects but consumers hunting out bargains

Deep gloom descended on British consumers last month - gloom about the economy, gloom about their own prospects of getting a pay rise. Read

Birmingham office of DTZ stands firm

The Birmingham office of the global property consultants DTZ has largely withstood the pressures on the commercial property market which drove the group as a whole into a second-half loss and forcing it to cut the final dividend. Read

Brown warned: Don't try to tax the UK out of recession

Any attempt by the Government to squeeze business with new taxes to replenish the Exchequer’s dwindling funds would be a catastrophe for the country, a leading champion of small and medium sized companies has warned. Read

Frost should know better than to talk of a recession which may not be

It is all very well for brokers’ boys and even respected pundits like Roger Bootle to drop the dread “R” word and be rewarded with an easy headline. Read

The rise and rise of the power of the Euro

When the Berlin Wall came down, it is said Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand made a man-to-man deal. Kohl’s West Germany could have East Germany and Mitterand’s France could have the German Dmark. Read

Empty buildings won't disappear - there will be bargains

The whole construction industry accounts for only six per cent of Britain’s gross domestic product. So its woes alone should not drive us into a recession. Read

UK construction industry hits new low

Britain’s construction industry suffered another severe turn for the worse between May and June, due largely to a steep slowdown in house-building. Read

Birmingham and Coventry house prices falling faster than average

House prices have been falling faster this year in Birmingham and Coventry than in any other urban centres except for Sheffield and Belfast. Read

Wheels of industry may turn us away from full blown recession

Bad times for financiers need not necessarily be bad times for British industry. Nor are bad times for property owners. Read

How King is hoping UK can ride out economic tide

The Bank of England and its governor Mervyn King have embarked on a hearts and minds campaign to persuade MPs they can and will drive inflation back to the Government’s target. Read

A decent place to live and the maze of money swilling

Old-fashioned stockbrokers, asked why this or that share was going up for no apparent reason, had a way of replying “More buyers than sellers, old boy”. Read

Investment slower than earlier months

Business investment was slowing down even faster than previously thought in the early months of this year. Read

Surprise surge in retail sales more likely a statistical blip

The remarkable surge in retail sales reported by Office for National Statistics last week may have been a statistical blip, to judge from the outcome of the latest distributive trades survey from the CBI. Read

Barclays nabs top private UBS banker

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Pension stealing Brown could be set for another raid on employees

Gordon Brown is widely credited with the destruction of Britain’s once-envied final salary pensions – the funded ones in the private sector that paid their way, not the hope-for-the-best public sector variety based on the supposed readiness of future generations of taxpayers to foot the bill. Read

Slow growing economy means Darling may have to do his sums again

Chancellor Darling was faced with the prospect of having to re-work his Budget arithmetic drastically for his pre-Budget statement in the autumn. Read

HBOS shares dropping nearer offer price

More than two million HBOS shareholders, most of them Halifax customers, who received their shares when it ceased to be a building society and merged with the Bank of Scotland, will receive a copy of the 196-page prospectus for its controversial £4 billion fund-raising. Read

Mr Bean takes over as King’s deputy for interest rate policy

Charlie Bean, the Bank of England’s chief economist will take over from Rachel Lomax as the Bank’s deputy governor in charge of interest rate policy, when her five-year term ends on June 30. 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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