New Adam Smith Â£20 note launched
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A new issue Â£20 note featuring a portrait of Scottish economist Adam Smith comes into circulation.
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Media & professional: End of Â£2,300 levy is first step in tackling debt.
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Zimbabwe is to print new banknotes in an effort to tackle the cash shortages afflicting the country.
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Traders assess impact of unprecedented Â£50bn support package from central banks
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The pound struck a 26-year high point against the dollar on Tuesday on expectations of further interest-rate rises in Britain.
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LONDON  - A 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon penny sold for 230,000 pounds (&#36;515,000 Cdn) on Wednesday, setting what the auction house said was a new world record for the most expensive British coin.
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The government plans to give pregnant women a Â£200 handout to help them eat healthily.
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Business & money: City expectations of a fresh rise in interest rates this week push sterling close to highest level against US currency in more than a quarter of a century.
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First time buyers will be offered new help to afford a plan under plans being unveiled by John Prescott.
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WASHINGTON - A new $50 bill with touches of red, blue and yellow went into circulation Tuesday and soon will be showing up at banks, cash registers and wallets.
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The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was lending $20 billion to banks through the first of four special auctions designed to help alleviate the credit crunch on Wall Street.
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON - The newest $1 coin, bearing the likeness of George Washington, is going into circulation around the country just in time for next week's celebration of the first president's birthday. U.S.
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An image of 18th century economist Adam Smith features on a new twenty pound banknote that the Bank of England (BoE) hopes will slash fraud and counterfeits.
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Give blind people a way to tell a $20 bill from a single, says a judge who told the government to change the nation's paper money so it doesn't all feel the same.
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The price of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 11/32 point, or $3.44 per $1,000 in face value. Its yield, which moves in the opposite direction, rose to 4.24 percent compared with 4.20 percent late Wednesday.
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Business & money: Tough new regulatory powers to make the Bank of England and the FSA more effective announced
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale also announces further â¬2bn-plus write-down because of credit crunch