Sports Calendar

Bleak tidings in book trade after Borders

The collapse of Borders is likely to mean the permanent loss of £35 million worth of sales annually to the UK book trade

First home is more distant than ever

A bigger threat is this year’s rise in house prices relative to average earnings

Investing in the future, if not all by choice

Royal Bank of Scotland's investment banking division doesn't want any of its new intake put off by any of the bad stuff

The inconvenient truth about climate change

Talks like those held at Copenhagen will continue to fail until we recognise that China is now in charge

No evidence Britons can save the day

The British public seems to have lost the savings habit, and will do until the right products are introduced

Peter Rabbit blazed a trail still well trod

Beatrix Potter must be hailed as a visionary for inventing the world's first patented toy

Boards don’t need stardust

The presence on its board of Martha Stewart failed to prevent the Nasdaq-listed Drugstore.com from becoming a dot-com flop

Time to get rid of the trash?

Ben Bennett, at Legal & General Investment Management, believes there is a 'dash for trash' taking place in the bond market

Supermarket group wins new lease of life

Is there some sort of jinx on the Waitrose store in the prosperous Buckinghamshire town of Marlow?

CAT’s ruling declaws monopoly body

Even BAA was surprised that the Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in favour of its appeal against the Competition Commission

Revenue not to blame for bad policy

Since it is the season of goodwill, spare a thought for the toilers at HM Revenue & Customs, who feel far from festive

Our incomes will be indisposed in 2010

The latest "income tracker" survey by Asda shows that the annual rate of growth in discretionary incomes is slowing

Challenges that lie ahead are very real

If you take the view that next year will be bumpy, take a look at the Bank of England’s last Financial Stability Report

This year could have been a lot worse

Anything could have happened to the banking system, an even worse crisis was averted, for which credit is due to authorities

Reality is sent packing as debt keeps piling

The crisis was caused in part by excessive debt. And the solution being proposed is more debt: huge government borrowing

Citi’s troubles begin with the boss

The bank's $20bn stock-offering did little to reassure investors that the bank would ever regain its global footing

Weekly accounts: Bob Wigley; Stephen Hester; George Dallas

Sovereign Reversions, the equity release company, has landed former Merrill Lynch chairman Bob Wigley as its new chairman