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to the sceptics), pumping money into the economy by the state buying assets, like government and corporate bonds ... the German government is in talks with its banks about helping them set up their own bad banks. Brown keeps ... and the Post Office, which critics say the Government has been trying to run down into oblivion, has emerged ...
debatable. This will be manna from heaven for the Government and the rest of the banking sector. All last ... -- Citi and Bank of America of America -- are being heavily-supported by the US government so this may just be a sign of government support starting credit flowing again. Mind you, there's a fair degree ...
LONDON - The government appears to have saved the life of the most important patient...The 37bn great bank bail-out in the autumn (completed this morning with news that the government ... by the government, possibly through the Bank of England, buying big (and currently almost valueless) mortgage ... government spending with the task of shortening the recession. But the credit crunch is still the problem ...
, disappear in the Government-inspired merger with Lloyds. They say that, now the Government has bailed out ... tens of thousands of jobs, many in Scotland. Government sources have poured cold water on this ... looks rather unlikely. Ultimately it's down to the Government. It's unlikely, for example, that BBVA ...
. The banks are supposed to be merged and then receive 17bn of government money, but shareholders hate ... if they don't merge. So what happens to HBOS? Meanwhile Barclays, which says it doesn't want any government ... better deal for brave taxpayers. Even RBS, which the Government says needs 20bn, is unhappy over ...
't actually need. In all, the three banks taking government money -- HBOS, Lloyds and RBS -- have 9bn ... in industrial quantities yesterday. The Government still wants Lloyds to merge with HBOS, the share price is saying that shareholders want anything but. So the government is going to need to revisit the dividend ...
hardly foment rebellion with two of the three founders of New Labour in government and with its chief ...
-advertised in living memory but that hasn't stopped the Government, forecasters and some companies acting as if a nuclear wasp has been unleashed in a locked boardroom. The Government is battling with foreign-owned oil ... now, not what the Government or indeed anyone else apart from the most ardent monetarist wants to hear ...
