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Latest Finance headlines
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 France and Germany may be forced to semi-nationalise more of their stricken banks after the G20 imposed new, stricter rules on banks' balance sheets. |
 The Government will cut the defence research budget by £100m next year as it seeks to cut costs despite the escalating conflict in Afghanistan. |
 The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy. |
| Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan. |
| The Bank of England may introduce negative interest rates for the first time in British history this week, economists said. |
| BP is not expecting an early pay-off from its contentious Libyan contract tied to prisoner transfers but analysts say the potential from the huge tracts of exploration territory is enormous. |
| telegraph.co.uk today | |
 The campaign to protect the Queen's English starts here. Readers have contacted The Sunday Telegraph in droves with examples of bad grammar spotted up and down the country. It's enough to make signwriters quake in their boots. |
