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Investment

Everybody is asking when the markets are going to bottom; despite this week's black Monday, I am not sure we are quite there yet.

Features

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

At a party, I bump into one of the country’s best-known supermarket bosses.

Paulson’s bail-out: a feeding frenzy for free cash

Paulson’s bail-out: a feeding frenzy for free cash

Our New York correspondent James Doran says the outgoing Treasury secretary’s $700 billion bank rescue plan failed to restore market confidence, and its chances of success in revised form look little better

Investor

Shopping centre boom that’s bound to go bust

Shopping centre boom that’s bound to go bust

At the beginning of the last recess-ion, when I was living in Wapping, my route to the paper shop took me through Tobacco Dock.

Specialist lender could win out as crunch bites

Specialist lender could win out as crunch bites

Dithering has cost me dearly in recent days; I held back from investing just as the best rally of the credit crisis got under way.

In this week's issue

City Life

Corruption is the hot election issue, but the biggest fish are yet to be fried

Eric Ellis

Lessons for life from the Crash of ’73

David Young, who later served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet and as chairman of Cable & Wireless, recalls his struggle for survival as an up-and-coming entrepreneur

David Young

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