date: 2008-11-28 06:56:41

ITV is understood to be planning to cut an further £25m of costs in a move that could see another round of job losses. By Mark Sweney

date: 2008-11-28 06:25:00

Oil fell towards $53 a barrel on Friday as OPEC ministers prepared to meet in Cairo to discuss potential further supply cuts as the global economic slowdown eats into oil demand.

date: 2008-11-28 04:51:00

Stimulus efforts to stave off a global recession steadied world stock markets, but grim outlooks in China, Japan and elsewhere indicate the economic crisis still had a long way to run.

date: 2008-11-27 21:04:00

Spain will spend an extra 11 billion euros (14.3 billion dollars) on public works and other recession-busting measures to fight a spike in unemployment after the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Thursday.

date: 2008-11-27 18:12:34

Spain launches an 11bn euros (£9.2bn) economic boost plan aimed at creating 300,000 jobs in 2009.

date: 2008-11-27 14:27:00

German energy group E.ON said on Thursday it hopes to cut bills for its UK customers in 2009 if wholesale gas and electricity prices carry on falling.

date: 2008-11-27 13:33:00

Oil fell to around $53 a barrel on Thursday as a holiday weekend in the United States and an upcoming OPEC consultative meeting limited trade.

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

The fiscal stimulus may look enticing, but the unadorned subplot is soaring debtMORE heavily trailed than a Hollywood blockbuster, the government’s fiscal package went on general release this week. Despite the hype, it lived up to expectations, though not in the way that Gordon Brown and his ...

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

A growing business, but perhaps not for longSEXUAL titillation, said Simon Warr confidently on November 25th, is not the point of a lap-dancing club. Mr Warr should know: besides being the head of Britain’s Lap Dancing Association, a lobbying outfit, he is co-owner of Spearmint Rhino’s ...

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

A not very edifying duel in ParliamentONCE there was a beard, but now there are only the formidable eyebrows. They remained sombrely unarched as Alistair Darling delivered his pre-budget report on November 24th. Across the dispatch box, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, pointed angrily at Mr ...

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

Joblessness in China is rising, prompting fears of social unrest. But how high is the true unemployment rate?THE employment outlook is “grim” according to Yin Weimin, China’s minister of human resources and social security. So grim, in fact, that on November 26th the ...

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

Unarmed British bobbies get a new toyAS WELL as the world’s first modern police force, Britain has one of the gentlest. Fewer than 7,000 of its 140,000 officers are licensed to carry guns, and then only on authorised operations rather than on the beat. Now they are about to get tougher. On ...

date: 2008-11-27 11:50:30

Four deaths in the line of duty unite two communitiesTHE still-new Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) lost four officers in the early hours of November 23rd, in the biggest single loss of life the force has had. The deaths were not the result of an attack by dissident republicans like the ...