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Updated: Darling's Nasty Surprise

The Pre-Budget Report's hidden measures will hurt Britain, not help it, as the Chancellor takes aim at the bonuses of all parts of the financial industry, not just banks

Pre-Budget Report Live

Live coverage of the Pre-Budget Report as it happens, plus expert analysis in the aftermath.

Reuters: Sing, Liech no longer tax havens

SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Asian financial centre Singapore is set to be taken off the OECD's "grey list" of countries not implementing international standards on information exchange, giving a boost to its fast-growing wealth industry.

Eight Suggestions for the Pre-Budget Report

It has been announced today that the current Chancellor’s third Pre-Budget Report (PBR), will be unveiled on 9 December. Tim Gregory and Clare Cromwell, partners at Saffrery Champness Chartered Accountants, set out eight measures that could help assist the economy and potentially encourage a return to growth.

Delaware most opaque tax haven, Switzerland in third

A new league table identifying the world's most secretive tax havens has been published, putting Delaware, US, ahead of Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the City of London. Spear's ranked Delaware number one in its review of tax havens in June last year.

Foot Report wants tax havens to put up tax

A report into British-controlled 'tax havens' has concluded that the very factor which makes them appealing - their low tax - is one of the aspects they will have to alter in order to survive.

Crown King, bash Brown

When Mervyn King told all these bailed out bankers in Edinburgh that the ‘Too-Big-To-Fail Syndrome’ was the right issue, however, all hell broke loose

Smith to Keynes: Be Quiet!

This is the text of Alasdair Macleod's Adam Smith lecture, delivered last week at Boodles: Alasdair takes aim at the Keynesians and Monetarists and gives his own plan for recovery

FT: 80% of City workers see bonus rises or stable

Four-fifths of City workers expect their bonuses this year to be higher or similar to those last year in spite of public concern over the role the pay-outs played in the banking crisis, according to a report to be published on Wednesday.

John Redwood on the Economic Crisis

Read John Redwood's summary of the Spear's Talk he gave at the Henley Literary Festival on Sunday, October 4

"For the private sector to be too much in debt may be careless. For the public sector to be too much in debt may be inconvenient. For the banking sector to be too much in debt might be worrying. For all three to be too much in debt at the same time is dangerous."