28 Dec 2007
Roll up roll up! Today's your last chance to enter MT's first ever end-of-year prize quiz on the business highlights of 2007...
28 Dec 2007
Festive cheer and seasonal goodwill seem to be in very short supply among the nation's trade bodies; both the TUC and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development are eagerly taking advantage of a slow news day to punt out their bleak predictions for the economy – and jobs in particular – for...
27 Dec 2007
Bigger and better than ever: MT names Britain's top wealth-creators.
21 Dec 2007
Merrill Lynch may find $5bn in its stocking when it wakes up on Tuesday – it's apparently set to jump on the 'sell a stake to the east' bandwagon.
19 Dec 2007
Big investment bank writes off several billion dollars and sells a big stake to Eastern investors. Haven't we done this story already?
19 Dec 2007
Northern Rock shares actually climbed today, after reports that Bradford & Bingley was interested in taking a stake - even though the building society has been busy playing down its interest.
18 Dec 2007
Mervyn King got another grilling from the Treasury Select Committee this morning, on the day the Bank of England promised to guarantee another swathe of Northern Rock's debts.
17 Dec 2007
'It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going,' as Mona Lott, the less than cheery laundress from the BBC’s popular war-time radio series It’s That Man Again (ITMA), used to say.
12 Dec 2007
The world's central bankers have teamed up to try and bail out the money markets, promising to inject some extra funds into the system. Better late than never, some might say.
12 Dec 2007
Beleaguered Geordie lender Northern Rock suffered its latest indignity on Wednesday, when it was dumped out of the FTSE 100. And now, it's revealed that chief executive Adam Applegarth has decided to slope off six weeks earlier than planned.