Business Comment
James Moore: Sweet lesson for banks in Cadbury
Outlook: It looks like the bankers in Cadbury's corner are set to make some healthy success fees
Inside Business Comment
Sean O'Grady: The master of the dismal science – with equations
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Economics students must age themselves in 'Samuelson years'
James Moore: Tullett staff won't go far
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Outlook: The sector heavyweight is Icap and it's not going anywhere
James Moore: Time for Dubai to go back to the classroom
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Outlook: Dubai will not be allowed to collapse into the shifting sands, at least for now
Stephen King: Pre-election politics dictate the Bank of England's economic policy
Monday, 14 December 2009
The Government is using the Bernie Madoff approach to its fiscal affairs
Margereta Pagano: Should they stay or should they go?
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Chancellor Alistair Darling's punitive PBR has provoked a fightback by the Square Mile and could even lead to a new brain drain
Hamish McRae: Fiscal credibility is on a knife edge – and this spring could be nasty indeed
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Economic view
Matgereta Pagano: If Tesco's sales are a little limp, it only needs to look at its fruit and veg
Sunday, 13 December 2009
There was much navel-gazing among the City's scribblers last week as they pored over Tesco's latest sales figures, which were at the slightly lower end of forecasts.
Hamish McRae: Ireland's harsh medicine holds important messages for UK
Sunday, 13 December 2009
The tail does not wag the dog, but the fiscal decisions of another jurisdiction in these islands last week deserve more attention than they have received.
Stephen Foley: Time to put the brakes on Citigroup
Saturday, 12 December 2009
US Outlook: Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's chief executive, has spent the past week lashing a horse to the back of a cart and trying to persuade everyone that he's created a roadworthy vehicle.
David Prosser: Demanding more flesh from banks
Friday, 11 December 2009
Outlook If bankers thought that one of the few positive effects of the new tax charges on bonuses might be that it would mark an end to open season on their kind, it did not take long for them to be disappointed. While readers of most newspapers woke up yesterday to stories about that new levy, The Wall Street Journal had an additional little treat for banking folk: an editorial jointly penned by Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy that effectively relaunched the campaign for a new global tax on financial transactions.
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