Doom and gloom was the order of the weekend, with most newspapers covering the stockmarket crash, the problems with Icelandic banks and the dire state of the housing market in their main news sections as well as in business and personal finance pages ...
Several papers covered the plight of buy-to-let landlords who will struggle to remortgage following the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley. The best of these was in The Sunday Times, which offered 10 tips for distressed landlords.
The news about B&B may have been well chewed over by the weekend, but Stephen Womack in the Mail on Sunday wrote by far the clearest piece - Who will pay for B&B rescue? - answering all the questions that the dailies had omitted, such as "What about B&B Pibs?".
The whole of The Sunday Telegraph Money section was dedicated to safety for savers, including useful articles outlining the rules on compensation for products other than savings accounts, and an explanation of what is available from that safest of institutions NS&I.
If you can't be bothered to read a whole section on where to put your money, try the Independent on Sunday. Personal finance editor, Julian Knight, encapsulates all the information in one article.
But the most interesting, and perhaps reassuring, article of the weekend was by Anthony Bolton, former star fund manager and ongoing mentor at Fidelity International, who set out in the Financial Times exactly why he has started investing his own money again after several years out of the markets. "When consumer sentiment is very negative, you want to buy it," he says.
