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Cloud-cuckoo-land on Wall Street

"How much should a Wall Street CEO get paid?" The question got bandied around on Thursday night at dinner — by a bunch of Wall Street CEOs.
Wall Street trading

£250bn bill to save US banks

The US government today launched a $373 billion (£250billion) bail-out package to save just two stricken banks.

Investors’ query as the burden is revealed

What did they know and when? That was the question investors were asking today of Bank of America after it laid bare the disastrous state of Merrill Lynch's finances.

Nobody’s safe until we know how toxic the bank monster is

Just when we thought it was safe to go back into the water, a new horror arrives to make us seek sanctuary.
Slade's Yacht

It’s plain sailing for Slade, the man with the Aura


UK job fears deepen with 3000 more hit

Britain was hit by another 3000 job cuts today.
Sacked City worker

'150,000 London jobs to go this year'

A SAVAGE downturn in the London economy will destroy almost 150,000 jobs in the capital this year, according to a new forecast.

Insurers facing a legal hurricane

It is tempting to think of the Madoff fraud as one where the victims almost selected themselves, because of their willingness to go into a fund that failed even to have the most basic separation between front and back office, between managing the money and controlling it. Client protections that are seen as basic and fundamental in Europe were missing in the United States.

So will 2009 see 'Fabulous Footsie' make a comeback? Don't bet on it

The egos have been brought crashing down to earth. Not so long ago, the City was full of strutting bankers confidently predicting the booming future to anyone who would listen. Now anyone wanting proof of just how far beleaguered bankers have fallen, need look no further than their predictions for the FTSE 100 index of leading shares for the year ahead.