'There's thunder and lightning on the horizon' After a stormy week in the markets, just how gloomy is the outlook as the financial crisis rumbles on? Peter Koenig takes the temperature

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: January 27, 2008| Author: Peter Koenig | Copyright information

At 10pm on September 13, as he does almost every night, Denis Norton was settling down to watch Sky News in the first-floor living room of his recently built townhouse in Kingston upon Thames.

Having just returned from his summer holiday, he had spent most of that Thursday catching up on household admin and chores, and was expecting the news to be dominated by the foot and mouth crisis.

Instead, he found himself watching with increasing horror as Sky led the broadcast with the n...

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