Savings rates cut to 0% for first time

Waitrose expansion will create 2,500 new jobs

Global economy to shrink; deflation greatest threat, says UN

Businesses in distress rose by 245% during last year

Nissan cuts 1,200 jobs as Gordon Brown tries to soothe fears for motor industry

Copper Jumps as U.S. Government Stimulus Plan May Boost Demand

Ruble Falls Most in 10 Years This Week After Five Devaluations

U.S. Challenges EU Ban on Chlorine-Bleached Poultry at WTO

U.S. Consumer Price Gains Slow to 0.1% Annual Pace

U.S. Industrial Production Fell 2% in December, Led by Autos

HONDA EXTENDS CAR PRODUCTION FREEZE

SLASH CIVIL SERVICE BY HALF, SAYS EX-MINISTER

HONDA CUTS 3,100 JOBS IN DOWNTURN

EXCLUSIVE: Top accountancy firm offers its 11,000 staff sabbaticals or four-day week as credit crunch bites

Brown to launch 'bad bank' to buy up billions of pounds of toxic debts

UK heading for sharpest fall in output in decades, warns bank chief

UK jobless rise of 40,000 in a week just 'tip of the iceberg'

IEA cuts oil demand forecasts

Company profits slide as recession takes hold

MORE SHOPS MEAN TESCO WILL CREATE 10,000 NEW JOBS

Government help for small business: The key points

Taxpayers to own part of small businesses

Chinese exports fall by the biggest margin in a decade

World Economic Forum highlights Chinese slump as biggest risk to global economy

Record fall for UK marketing spend as recession hits

OECD warns over growth in China, Germany and Russia as downturn goes global

Demand for education staff rises as unemployed seek training

UK trade gap widens to record £8.3bn as exports slump despite plunging value of the pound

'Tens of thousands' of jobs to be axed as downturn hits councils

Barclays leads City cull as it axes 2,100 jobs

Fewer than half of teenagers achieve basic set of A to C grades at GCSE

Jobs bloodbath as 3,000 posts are axed in ONE day

Grim picture for retail, housing and industry as recession takes hold

McDonald's, Junk Food and externalities

Britain's trade deficit widens to new record

Eurozone bargain hunters flood into West End after collapse of the pound

Our gas bills are soaring ... yet still we sell our supplies to cheaper Europe

Take a pay cut and keep your jobs, bosses tell Vauxhall workers

Hundreds of green campaigners hold picnic protest at Heathrow in opposition to third runway plans

Savers hammered as average interest plunges to less than 1%

Ministers consider £20bn plan for taxpayer-backed loans to help struggling firms

Every child in Britain will owe £17,000 at birth due to Brown's 'repugnant' borrowing, says Cameron

The labour market isn't working

Gordon Brown's VAT folly should be a sharp lesson to Barack Obama

CBI says City job losses to accelerate as it urges Government to speed up rescue plans

House price decline 'makes moving from bottom of property ladder easier'

How will the recession affect your child's education?

Surprise rise in US jobless raises spectre of Great Depression

China’s challenges demand its leaders be bold

Scotland on course to being the third most state-dependent country in world

Primark under fire over claims its knitwear is made by illegal workers in British sweatshops