30 Dec 2011:
Leading UK market's 327-point decline in a year of turbulence was a stark contrast to the US, where Dow Jones industrial average remains 6% up
23 Dec 2011:
Bond yields on 10-year UK gilts dipped below 2% in thin pre-Christmas trading on Friday, making it cheaper for the Treasury to finance the UK's budget deficit. A triumph for the government?
21 Dec 2011:
Gains in stock markets after the ECB announced the details of its long-term refinancing operation were short lived and bond yields on Italian and Spanish debt rose
16 Dec 2011:
Bond yields appear to be falling because the European Central Bank is prepared to inject massive quantities of liquidity into the eurozone banking system
Confidence fades in latest eurozone fix as all of Italy's unions strike over where €20bn cuts will fall, France faces rating cut and fears grow that Germany's Commerzbank might need a bailout
1 Dec 2011: Letters: Many African and Latin American countries adopted austerity policies to cope with debt. By the mid-1990s, 57 of them were poorer in per-capita income than 15 years before
As a 'voluntary' writedown of Greek bonds will not trigger a payout from credit default swaps, this form of protection against sovereign debt default is unrealistic, says Phillip Inman