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Castle reveals world wide plan

Castle Support Services, the successor company to the Birmingham industrial maintenance group Dowding & Mills, is planning to go global - beyond its existing presence in Europe, Australasia and North America. Read

Cars roaring ahead of slow sales

Motor traders succeeded for a second month in bucking the trend that is depressing sales of household durables and a generally quieter time for most other retailers. Read

Cars, loans, supermarkets - there's still a lot of money about

So some people in this country still have money, it appears. And some are still borrowing it. Read

FSA praised for owning up over rock shortcomings

The Financial Services Authority was praised yesterday for coming clean about its own failings in supervising Northern Rock. Read

Financial services authority deserves two cheers anyway

Two cheers for the Financial Services Authority for coming clean - well, cleaner than Government departments or listed companies come, even if it stopped short of letting an independent auditor take a look at what it had failed to do at Northern Rock. Read

Rumour-mongers made millions, but so did directors

Market abuse is Financial Services Authority-speak for insider trading. Read

The threat to industry from credit crunch

When is a financial crisis not a crisis? When it leaves honest folk and real companies doing real work - not messing round in banking, broking, plotting bids and shuffling arcane financial instruments - to get on with things and flourish. Read

Stability could just be a scramble for cheaper money

It was all a false alarm - unless you happened to be a shareholder in Bear Stearns. So you might think from the stock market's performance over these past two hectic days. Read

Living longer poses a £269m problem to L&G

Legal & General has set aside £269 million to cover the cost of its commitments to pay an income for life to thousands of holders of its annuities, who are living longer. Read

HSBC and the quiet spread of globalisation

Amid all the indignation at the plight of entrepreneurs selling up their companies in a hurry by April 5 rather than pay Chancellor Darling's extra eight per cent capital gains tax in a few years' time, it is easy to forget that some people are doing quite nicely out of it. Read

Hold tight, this latest recession won't last forever

Forget the debate about whether we are heading for an American recession. Wall Street has behaved as if one began back in December. Read

Making a genuine free offer is like yanking teeth for cadbury's

Free offers usually attract a fair measure of support, even if a glance at the small print establishes that that they are less free than they look. Read

Ellis an island of sanity among the dreadful Darling devices

Martin Ellis, the top economist at Halifax, can claim much of the credit for making inheritance tax a political issue last autumn when the Conservative and Labour parties bid against each other to reform it ahead of Gordon Brown's election that never was. Read

Avoiding depression may yet lead us into recession

We are not in a recession. There is a tolerable consensus among economists that we stand a decent chance of escaping one, though they may argue about the definition. Read

Muted Midlands likely, says PwC

The West Midlands economy is slowing this year - but not in a meltdown - and unlikely to experience a recession. Read

Rowntree has the foundation of very good idea

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a charity with a long record of funding thoughtful and, equally to the point, influential research. Read

Banks could shoulder Mervyn King suggestion

Time was when the governor of the Bank of England raised his eyebrows every banker in the land trembled. Read

HBOS shareholders can still sleep soundly

When is a bank not a bank, well, not a real bank? When it is a mortgage bank. Read

Pru adds £2.7bn bonus to with-profits policy windfall

Prudential is adding £2.7 billion in bonuses for 2007 to the value of its customers' with-profits policies after a year when its with-profits fund delivered an investment return of 7.2 per cent, despite volatile world stock markets and the credit crunch. Read

Huge rises that none of us, can escape

"Over the past year alone, oil prices have risen by around 60 per cent and agricultural food prices by around 50 per cent". So said the Bank of England's deputy governor. 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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