Oh dear. It’s all gone a touch pear-shaped at Bradford & Bingley. Last night private equity outfit Texas Pacific Group walked away from the bank’s reshuffled rights issue after credit rating agency

Corporate life hangs in the balance for Taylor Wimpey which sacked its finance director today after it failed to secure rescue funding. The ailing house builder, which doesn’t expect tough trading con

The sun may be shining – as he writes Cityblogger is busy smearing himself with cut price BOG-OFF sunscreen in a nod to the credit crunch - but the lacklustre markets continue to cast a shadow over o

It's a veritable blood bath out there today in the markets. If yesterday wasn't a bad enough day on the FTSE100, the index slipped below the 5,500 mark this morning, hitting the miserable depths of 5

Retail sales figures released last week may have been surprisingly upbeat, so much so that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee members were left scratching their heads in bewilderment as