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Economics

High street sales stage surprise July upturn

Unexpected rise in sales confounds City gloom and sows uncertainty over outlook for consumer spending

Rate setters split for second month in a row

A three-way pull of target-busting inflation, slowing growth and a stalled housing market tests the rate setters

Manufacturers' hopes slump to seven-year low

Weakening order books and concern at bleak economic news from the eurozone combine to crush expectation of future output

Anatole Kaletsky: Economic view

Anatole Kaletsky

Pessimists base gloom on old news

My view remains that this credit crunch episode is likely to be remembered as one of those extremes of panic in financial markets

Treasury needs a new golden rule fast

Abandoning Gordon Brown's framework for fiscal prudence is no bad thing. It made no sense at all

Financial woes, not economic crisis

Every now and then markets make spectacular blunders, losing touch with the real economy of consumption, investment and employment

Oil is the key to world recovery

The shock of $140 oil has created inflationary and deflationary pressures that threaten world economy and policy tools

Gary Duncan: Economic View

Gary Duncan

Eurozone creates global tipping point

The big question now confronting the markets and policymakers is how much worse things in the eurozone might become

Higher rates risk turning crunch into a crash

The Bank of England is already squeezing Britain's brakes hard and runs the risk of turning the crunch into a crash

Happy ending likely once horror ends

We remain fortunate to live in an economy that, for all its shortcomings, is dynamic, flexible and possessed of immense potential

This is not the Seventies revisited

Compared with Britain's malaise 30 years ago, stagflation in its present form is still pretty mild

ROSEMARY RIGHTER: ECONOMIC VIEW

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Signs show euro's joyride is at an end

The signs were there for all analysts to read that Europe is heading into a recession from which it will struggle to recover

Economic Outlook: David Smith

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A bed of nails we all have to lie on

Economies generally obey the bicycle theory - if they are not moving forward they are at risk of falling over

Can the economy grow even if consumers wilt?

The fall in the oil price from farcical to merely ridiculous levels, with other commodity prices easing in tandem, is good news

Irwin Stelzer

Irwin Stelzer

Rebounding dollar brings its own problems

The recovery of the long-comatose dollar may sound like unambiguous good news, but economics is never that simple

Don't make a recession out of a downturn

Many observers, including Democratic politicians in control of Congress, say that if it feels like a recession, it is a recession. The reality is we just don't know

Obama plays into the hands of the protectionists

The presidential hopeful's hostages to fortune will leave him in debt to the unions and his party's Left

Don’t panic: the economy is still growing

Improvements in housing would, of course, translate into improvements in the banking sector

Flood of Eastern Europeans slows to a trickle

Fewer migrants from the former Soviet bloc states are heading for work in Britain as the credit crunch takes hold

Weak tax revenue fuels public finance fears

City economists issue fresh warnings that the Chancellor is set to plunge deep into the red as downturn deepens

Manufacturers' output hopes at seven-year low

CBI reports a gloomy mood among producers after a more-than-expected second monthly decline in order books

Monthly mortgage rise undone by 27% year fall

July gross mortgage lending rose slightly by 5% compared with June but the market will remain subdued in 2008

Investors spooked amid renewed fears over banks

Concerns were inflamed by bad news on price pressures from Germany and the US

Shoppers trade down but who pays the high price?

M&S’s share of the food market has fallen again, despite heavy discounting and the decision to sell branded products

M&S mutiny over redundancy plan

The retailer is continuing to consult employee groups about new terms but it does not need their approval to implement them

Inflation fears send markets tumbling

The FTSE 100 index tumbles by 129.8 points, or 2.4 per cent, to close at 5320.4 as the bear market tightened its grip

US prices rise at fastest in 27 years

US producer prices rose 1.2 per cent in July compared with the month before, forcing America to face up the prospect of 'stagflation'

Crunch warning ... Marks & Spencer: Tempus at lunchtime

M&S employees feel their benefits have been eroded ... warning that the credit crunch is far from over is timely

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Going down: London property prices

Borough-by-borough guide to falling house prices in the capital

China 

Cheng Fei, Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan and Yang Yilin of the Chinese women's gymnastics team

Economic reckoning for China after Games

The Olympics have cost about $50bn, but the impact they will have on the Chinese economy is open to doubt

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