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MPs say Treasury overpaid City bankers for advice

The Commons Public Accounts Committee has urged the Treasury to stop paying City-style success fees and retainers

Sterling weakens amid mounting eurozone fears

Pound has plummeted by nearly ten cents since mid-January with worry over how countries will meet debt obligations

Sterling falls on fears of eurozone strife

Investors worried about the continuing fiscal difficulties of some European countries flee to the safety of the greenback

Greek unions threaten austerity moves

Prime Minister Papandreou's budget-cutting measures are under pressure as a 24-hour strike looms on Wednesday

New focus on trade balance after financial crisis

Trade balance: the difference between the value of goods and services exported by a country and the value of those imported

G7: Greece must be rescued by Europe

A "European" solution promised to the problems affecting Greece, Portugal and Spain

A chorus of disapprovals

Rising approvals are part of the recovery story and new forecast predicts prices will rise by more than 6% this year

Euro takes a beating amid stability woes

Heightening concerns about the scale of European sovereign debt force down the value of both the pound and the euro

Credit binge bites with 134,000 insolvencies

Figures boosted by middle-class professionals going bust last year as their debt-fuelled lifestyles hit the buffers

US unemployment rate falls to a five-month low

The number of Americans out of work fell below 10% in January but employers reported a 20,000 fall on their payrolls

Factory gate prices rise on crude oil costs

Higher producer price inflation will raise concerns that the Bank of England will increase rates earlier than expected

Personal insolvencies reach record levels

The number of people who went bust in 2009 rose by 26%, but company liquidations revealed a modest fall

Recovery in house prices begins to slacken

January’s figure of growth at 0.6 per cent show the most modest monthly rise recorded for six months, according to Halifax

Stock markets plunge over Europe debt fears

Worries over the scale of debt in Western countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal hit shares around the world

Greeks don’t care for cuts

The Greek Prime Minister's message won approval in Davos and Brussels, but has not gone down well back home

Time will tell if Bank’s caution is right

It will be a shame if, having responded well to the financial crisis, the Bank of England has now dropped the ball

COMMENT: revived but on life-support

The Bank of England may have stopped supplying money but that doesn't mean the economy is healthy again