Business Comment
James Moore: Shareholders can't allow Kraft to win
Outlook: If you let a predator take over a company in your portfolio at beneath the market price, others will try the same tactic
Inside Business Comment
Econoblog: It's painful, but the banking sector has to slim down
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Harsh as it is on the staff who are losing their jobs at Lloyds, the move is inevitable.
Stephen King: Developing economies show the way for the US and EU to recover
Monday, 9 November 2009
Emerging nations spend their money on investment goods, not modern-day ephemera
Hamish McRae: What the world needs now is a round of golf – between leaders of the G20
Sunday, 8 November 2009
The G20 finance ministers are gathering this weekend in St Andrews, not to play golf but to knock economic policy ideas about.
Margareta Pagano: Even at an Aldi discount, Lloyds is still a gamble
Sunday, 8 November 2009
It's hard to believe our banks were the envy of Europe
Stephen Foley: Don't despair as US jobless rate hits 10 per cent
Saturday, 7 November 2009
US Outlook: Employers make investment decisions based on their own, on-the-ground business experience, not on round numbers
David Prosser: Britain's car dealers on the scrapheap
Friday, 6 November 2009
Outlook At first sight, the scrappage scheme is working wonders for Britain's automotive sector. Car sales have risen in each of the past four months and, we learnt yesterday, October was the best month of the year yet, with a 32 per cent increase in new registrations. The extension of scrappage announced in September looks, then, to have been another shot in the arm for the motor trade.
Hamish McRae: Growth is returning but what will happen when QE is wound up?
Friday, 6 November 2009
Economic Life: There is an artificial element to the growth which people are worrying about
Sean O'Grady: Economy's house of horrors has frightened the Bank
Friday, 6 November 2009
Spooked. Though the Bank of England and its Governor, Mervyn King, would never use such indelicate language, it was not just the Hallowe'en experience that has them quaking. The Bank is spooked – shocked might be a better word – by the economy's continuing weakness.
David Prosser: No happy new year on the high street
Friday, 6 November 2009
Outlook The retail trade is ending the year as it began it. The closure of Woolworth's, completed in the first few days of January, was the UK's biggest-ever retail failure. But Threshers, which has been in administration since last week, threatens to run it close. First Quench, the parent to the business, has 1,300 stores in all, 500 more than Woolies shut in the end, and announced yesterday that 373 will be closed for starters.
Econoblog: RBS results show its a long haul for all of us
Friday, 6 November 2009
Nothing illustrates the Government's central dilemma over the economy better than the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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