Headlines from the Financial Times, February 21:

  • Markets tumble amid fears over banks
  • Investors flee to gold and government bonds
  • 19 000 Anglo American jobs to go
  • Saab files for bankruptcy protection
  • Eurozone lurches deeper into recession

    Other headlines

  • Soros sees no bottom for world financial “collapse” — Reuters
  • Roubini says crisis end distant — Reuters
  • Dow slides to new 6-year lows, led by financials — the Associated Press
  • De Beers suspends mines — Fin24.com

    Recent headlines

  • Thousands queue for relief as recession bites — EP Herald February 20
  • Turmoil over east Europe — Financial Times, February 18
  • Greenspan says more bail-out funds will be needed — Financial Times, February 18
  • Japanese economy plunges to 35-year low — Financial Times, February 17
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    Reg Rumney

    Reg Rumney

    A journalist for more than two decades, Reg Rumney has just returned from Grahamstown to Johannesburg after spending more than seven years at Rhodes University, teaching economics journalism. He is...

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