That's The Badger

After the great upheaval of the general election and the first change in government for 13 long years, things are finally beginning to settle down in Westminster. It now looks like a stable government and agenda has been agreed upon and put into place; which is good news for political correspondents as they can catch [...]

The euro slid into another four year low against the dollar last night as the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced a temporary ban on the short selling of so-called ‘naked’ derivatives. The ban is set to run from the 19th may to the 31st March 2011, and it is hoped that the embargo will prevent [...]

Having endured two long years of trouble and strife, crashing financial markets and global instability, it looks like the auto industry may well have survived the worst of it. After an unprecedented amount of support Detroit’s ‘Big Three’ appear to be back on track, recording impressive first quarter sales and signalling a significant bounce in [...]