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Pledge for more IMF help for poor
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
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The money will go to the IMF's new loan facility to help countries which do not have enough money to pay for imports as a result of the economic crisis. It will come from a $250bn (£157bn) allocation distributed a few weeks ago. The money is essentially...
Tags: IMF, Britain, finance ministers, Exchequer Alistair Darling
France ups pressure on bonuses
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility France tonight upped the pressure on Britain to agree sweeping curbs on bankers' bonuses as it warned the government not to kow-tow to the interests of the City. France's finance minister, Christine Lagarde, in London for tomorrow's meeting of top finance...
Tags: finances ministers, Exchequer Alistair Darling, London, France, Britain, g20 finances, American, Obama
Unions threaten action over public sector pay
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Union leaders are warning of possible industrial action after Alistair Darling failed to rule out a pay freeze for public sector workers. The Chancellor said wage levels for Government staff, which will be announced within weeks, would have to reflect...
Tags: public sector, sector pay, pay freeze, sector workers, Exchequer Alistair Darling, public finances
Alistair no darling for big bankers
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Demetris Efstathiou, a hedge-fund trader and a Londoner for two decades, listened last week to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling outline a plan to raise taxes on high earners. Then he decided to leave Britain. “There is no reason for me to...
Housing set for £1bn Budget boost
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility The government is set to provide money for construction sites where work has stopped because of funding problems and for building council houses. A stamp duty "holiday" on homes costing up to £175,000 will also be extended by three months to the end of...
Tags: Exchequer Alistair Darling, Britain, ZEW, Gordon Brown, Bank of England, Germany
UK budget forecasts may halt pound rally
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility The British government's upcoming budget is likely to reveal dramatically more pessimistic forecasts on the economy and public borrowing this year, putting the brakes on sterling's recent upswing. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on Wednesday...
Banks defy Brown call to free up credit
Halifax :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility A Bank of England survey found that in spite of Gordon Brown 's call for more loans, lenders had further reduced the amount of credit available in the last three months of 2008 and warned that they planned to continue to pare back. Banks and building...
Tags: Exchequer Alistair Darling, banks bailout, times reported
Darling says BOE could cut lending rate
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling suggested a Bank of England lending rate cut was possible but didn't declare it a done deal. "I am not going to tell the Bank of England what to do, because independence means just that, in the difficult...
Tags: Exchequer Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, small businesses, Britain, Bank of England
Recession looms as UK economy shrinks
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility The British economy has confirmed the predictions of recession as its GDP growth dropped into negative territory this quarter. Britainâs economy, which had registered no growth in the second quarter of this year, went into negative growth of 0.5 per...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Exchequer Alistair Darling, Mr Brown, prime minister, rate cut, London, looms recession
Darling defends economy warning
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ministers are expected to announce a package of measures next week to kick-start the moribund housing market. The chancellor has been criticised for sending contradictory signals over possible measures to assist homebuyers, particularly the prospect of...
Tags: Exchequer Alistair Darling, Economy Britain, economic crisis, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, minister gordon, uk economy, credit crunch, prime minister
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