Channel 4 News - Faisal Islam

'Death spiral' fears for world markets

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

World credit has seized up from Tokyo to London, from Frankfurt to New York. Is the world on the verge of a global recession?

FTSE falls as panic spreads

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100

James Blake reports on the shocking collapses in share prices in Asia and Europe amid growing fears of deep recession.

Bank crisis: the ripple effect

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

From councils to a children's hospice, close to £1bn of British money is at risk in the collapse of the Icelandic banking system.

What's in a sweater, or two?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:45:00 +0100

Faisal Islam explains what the gas price rise could mean.

Darling: rosy economic outlook

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Despite the current credit squeeze this is a budget predicated on a somewhat rosy view of the global economy.

Davos: a winter wonderland?

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:57:00 +0000

"'Please, oh corporate titans' I thought to myself, 'don't put your hands up'." Faisal Islam blogs on the Davos free market party.

The Era of Epic Economics

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:21:00 +0000

'It's not microeconomics. And the word 'macroeconomics' is too piddly. So welcome to Epicnomics.' Faisal Islam blogs from Davos.

Football clubs raided

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:24:00 +0100

Three British football clubs have been raided by police as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the sport.

Rates cut bid to boost confidence

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

In concert with other central banks around the world, the UK government cuts interest rates by 0.5 per cent, to 4.5 per cent. Faisal Islam reports.

Fear, panic and frantic selling

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

On a day when the very potency of concerted government action is called into question, share prices collapse on stock markets across the world. Faisal Islam reports.

A brief history of the credit crunch

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Faisal Islam in New York speaks to three of America's leading financial gurus and asks, how long it will last?

Markets rally, but banks under stress

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Our economics correspondent Faisal Islam reports on the continuing stresses on the markets, which today prompted the Irish to guarantee bank deposits.

Hysteria in banking: stocks tumble

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

The world's central banks spend the day battling to revive a financial system apparently close to paralysis.