Business Diary: Orange alert for EasyJet boss

Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of EasyJet, has just one complaint after her first year at the company, she tells Richard Quest in a CNN interview.

It concerns the budget carrier's distinctive livery. It's not that McCall dislikes the colour, you understand – quite the opposite – but now she fears being seen in anything that might resemble EasyJet uniform. "I've always loved [the colour orange]," she says. "I had an orange, very smart, jacket, before I joinedEasyJet, which I have never worn since I've been here."

Wall Street's bull is now off-limits

The Occupy Wall Street movement has had anunintended effect. After a campaigner threatened to daub paint on the famous sculpture of the bull that is such an attraction on Wall Street (specifically its private parts), New York cops have thrown a protective cordon around the creature. Tourists begging to be allowed to have their photo taken with the bull are being turned away.

Veteran retail analyst for sale?

After spending much of the past few years commentating on retailers that have found themselves in financialdifficulties, it looks as if the City's best-known analyst of the high street has some problems of his own. City AM reports that Arden Partners isconsidering letting go of Nick Bubb as it looks for ways to reduce its costs. Still, on the bright side, unlike many of those struggling retailers, Bubb's services would at least be in much demand elsewhere.

Berating the bean counters

Bean counters beware: a new paper by Austin Mitchell, pictured, the Labour MP, and Prem Sikka, from the University of Essex, does not make pleasant reading. You should get the gist from the title: The Pin-Stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Society, but if not, the first chapter is titled: "Epicentres of sleaze and corruption", while the final instalment is "Crimes against the people".