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Private client stockbroker opens new base in city

Rathbones, a private client stockbroker managing nearly £11 billion for individuals and trustees, is opening in Birmingham, headed by two recruits from the local office of Citi Quilter. Read

Lloyds TSB won't go cap in hand to investors

Lloyds TSB is not following the examples of The Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS in tapping its shareholders for more capital to shore up its balance sheet. Read

Enl Daniels might have to act out of character

Boring is best. Boring bankers, anyway. This time last year, Eric Daniels' talent for tedium was seen as a shortcoming. Read

Say it softly, but we may survive the doom

I have been trying to recall when I last noticed some well-placed person sounding off about how banks and others caught in the fall-out from sub-prime and the credit crunch must come clean about all their losses without any more shilly shallying. Read

The similarities to the 1980s crash are superficial

Every day we get new echoes of the six-year slide in house prices which began in 1989 - a slide, it must be said, which gave first-time buyers a decent chance to house themselves comfortably. Read

£37m hit for Standard Life to guarantee investments

Standard Life is taking a £37 million hit on its first-quarter profits to underpin guarantees made to investors in one of its global liquidity funds that they can get back the original cost of their investments. Read

You might need convincing your HBOS investment will pay off

If, like 2.1 million others, you have a few shares in HBOS you are kicking yourself for failing to sell them for £11 or more last Spring. Read

Let's all raise a couple of cheers for sensible persimmon

On the principle that bad news that may be good news is preferable to good news that turns out to be bad news, raise two cheers for Persimmon. Our biggest house-builder has stopped building on new sites. Read

The pound revisits its post-ERM skid

Forget oil prices for a minute. Forget the explosion in the cost of basic foods driving them past the level which a good part of the world's population can afford. Forget the credit crunch and the reeling banks. Last night Andrew Sentance, one of the harder-nosed members of the Bank of England's interest-setting committee, left these mighty issues to other people and examined the other ingredient of our present discomfort, the stricken pound. Read

Don't hold your breath for kindly cuts from the Bank of England

It looks rather as if Charlie Bean, the Bank of England's respected chief economist, doesn't listen when Gordon Brown is talking. Read

Grubby episode that does no credit to the British political class

Has your MP, of whatever party, joined the scramble to denounce the demise of the 10 per cent income tax band? Drop her or him a line to suggest you would be more impressed it took less than a year for MPs to grasp what they are doing when they nod through Treasury plans to tax us. Read

You're not stupid, Gordon. But don't treat us as if we are

Gordon Brown has many failings. We have been chronicling them for years. Read

Bank of England can solve it all by throwing billions at crisis

You may wonder why the Bank of England bothers. It has lost control of the real-life retail interest rates that real people and companies pay. Read

Falling pound is a richly deserved for British industry

Welcome to the world of the 80p euro. The continental currency that was costing about 67p when I was in Italy last summer, passed briefly yesterday morning beyond that stepping stone. Read

Region's bad news is not that bad

Look on the bright side. Read

Bank struggling to halt the slowdown

Mortgages are set to become still scarcer and dearer in the coming months, while quickening inflation makes it impossible for the Bank of England to cut interest rates enough to prevent a wider economic slowdown. Read

There might be bargains when buy-to-let landlords cash in

Today is your last chance if you are among the hard-heads who still think this may not be such a bad year to put a little money into an ISA. An equity ISA, that is. Read

If Americans lose the house, they can sleep in their SUVs

Some people, we noted last week, have still got money. Read

Investors don't fool around as bank shares lead the charge

Don't buy bank shares till they sack the bankers. It is a sound adage that has worked in the past. Read

UK industry stands firm amid global troubles

British industry is still resisting the dual pressures from financial turbulence round the world and rising costs of fuel and raw materials. 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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