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The 'worst week in market history'

It started badly, got rapidly worse and then ultimately descended into utter misery as the sellers came out en masse. Such was the carnage that the past trading week was labelled by one commentator on Friday the 'worst in...

Market Report: Shares slump as recession fears take hold

It was a miserable end to a miserable week. The fears of recession took hold in earnest yesterday and the terror was palpable. The market opened and plunged, screaming down 10 per cent to smash into the 3,000-levels for the...

Bank merger hits problems over equity stakes

HBOS came under the spotlight amid talk that the integration of its integrated finance unit with Lloyds TSB could prove to be a problem to the merger of the two banks. HBOS owns stakes in some of Britain's largest privately...

FTSE dives 8 percent on growth fears

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index slid 8.2 percent by midday on Friday in a global sell-off in equities as investors feared government efforts to unclog liquidity strains would not avert a global recession.

Shares in Europe plunge again in tumultuous week

MarketWatch) -- The main national European shares indexes all plunged on Friday, capping a week of carnage in equity markets when policymakers and central banks desperately battled to shore up financials and limit damage to the...

Xstrata - Notification of transactions of Directors, persons discharging managerial responsibilit...

Notification of transactions of Directors, persons discharging managerial responsibility or connected persons 1. Name of the issuer Xstrata plc 2. State whether the notification relates to (i) a transaction notified in...

London sghares slump worst for 21 years

London's blue chip shares today slumped almost 9 per cent to cap their worst week since 'Black Monday' in 1987. The FTSE 100 index closed 8.85 per cent down on the day, down 381.7 at 3932.1, the index's lowest level since May...

Leading City chartist likens FTSE fall to the great crash of 1987

As some of the biggest City brains and top equity stockpickers daily wonder whether they should have come out so early in calling a turn in the market, one of the City's leading 'chartists' today revealed the 20 per cent fall...

Banks in the eye of the storm

The FTSE 100 seemed to be stabilising in mid-morning at around 5% down before taking another turn for the worse. It teetered around the 4000-point mark, down 7% to or 299 points to 4014.8. It is a measure of how turbulent the...

Xstrata Kidd mill running, but strike continues

TORONTO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Xstrata has restarted the concentrator at its Kidd copper and zinc metallurgical operations in northern Ontario, but the two smelters and a refinery are still silent as unionized workers continue...

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