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Econoblog: Rosenfeld should go to Bournville

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Something tells me that the Kraft deal may yet defy the critics, and prove a success, if not a sweet success.

Econoblog: Outlook still gloomy until 2012

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Important intelligence for anyone in the property market, or thinking about it (which must be most of the population).

David Prosser: Bolton picks China for his comeback

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Outlook The best fund managers have star quality, transcending the mundane industry in which they work and attracting fan bases that follow their every move – they also, like rock stars and sporting heroes, have a habit of reneging on plans for retirement, coming back for that one big final tour.

James Moore: A glittering career forever tarnished by a failure to act

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

The word emanating from the FSA's docklands Lubyanka about Hector Sants' departure announcement yesterday was that it was a personal decision dictated by his personal timetable. He had always said he would go after three years and yesterday's announcement fits in with that. Nothing more to see here, move along now.

David Prosser: The banks versus Obama

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Outlook John Varley's criticisms of the United States' proposed banking reform – championed first by the former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and now by Barack Obama himself – are twofold. He doesn't like the direction the US has gone in, or that it has chosen to travel independently, rather than seeking international consensus.

David Prosser: GMG gambles everything on contrary view

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Outlook Guardian Media Group's decision to sell its regional media business is yet another indication of its determination to bet the house on all things digital. It has sold a profitable group of local newspapers (albeit with profitability in decline) in order to subsidise its loss-making national newspaper division, which is obsessed with the idea of a multimedia future and, specifically, the view that charging for online content is the wrong way to proceed.

David Prosser: Carbon prices are going the wrong way

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Outlook: The sooner the carbon price rises very significantly the better

David Prosser: No thaw yet for retailers

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Outlook: Higher VAT, awareness of tax increases and lower public spending to come are now making shoppers ultra-cautious

David Prosser: Lord Browne would still feel uncomfortable today

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Outlook: Having seen Lord Browne treated this way, why should other business leaders want to risk facing more of the same?

Stephen King: Another Greek tragedy unfolds

Monday, 8 February 2010

It's not difficult to generate a vicious downward spiral leading to unrest

James Moore: If the taxman plays hardball we're all in trouble

Monday, 8 February 2010

The taxman's 'pay now' demand is enough to tip a business over the edge

James Moore: The price is right – but not for British taxpayers

Monday, 8 February 2010

There's no doubt that an injection of competition into Britain's banking market is desperately needed.

Hamish McRae: Yes, the eurozone will bail out Greece, but its currency has taken a battering

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Economic view

Margareta Pagano: Stock markets declare war on the politicians

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Optimistic investors force governments to act

Stephen Foley: Big Pharma ignores R&D; at its peril

Saturday, 6 February 2010

US Outlook: It might be a little early to declare, but 2010 looks like being a year of profound change for Big Pharma.

Hamish McRae: Europe's weakest states will be bailed out, but we'll all pay the price

Saturday, 6 February 2010

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Stephen Foley: Bankers' actions a crime of passion

Saturday, 6 February 2010

US Outlook: There ought to be a legal defence of crime passionnel for executives accused of fraud.

Sean O'Grady: Mervyn King didn't quite get the temperature right

Friday, 5 February 2010

Have you ever, like I have, had trouble using the shower controls in a strange hotel?

David Prosser: The Greek infection is still spreading

Friday, 5 February 2010

Outlook: There really doesn't seem much point in threatening Greece with legal action or fines

David Prosser: Big oil gets caught out

Friday, 5 February 2010

Outlook: Shell has been trying to reduce its downstream exposure as quickly as it can

Hamish McRae: Prepare for normal interest rates... and the rise could be a sharp one

Friday, 5 February 2010

Economic life: Investors need to be persuaded that the country will not try to inflate away the real value of the debt

David Prosser: Not much of a signal from digital radio

Friday, 5 February 2010

Outlook: Radio executives have always thought 2015 was an ambitious target for switchover

David Prosser: Why your mortgage bill is going up

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Outlook Has your mortgage bill suddenly begun creeping up? If so, you are not alone – although the Bank of England base rate has remained at the historically low level of 0.5 per cent for a year now, many mortgage lenders have begun raising their interest rates.

David Prosser: Alarm bells ring at OFT

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Outlook One can see why T-Mobile and Orange were keen to have their merger signed off by European Union regulators rather than the UK's Office of Fair Trading, but did they really expect to get away with it? The OFT's announcement yesterday that it wants directly to scrutinise the deal was both inevitable and quite right.

David Prosser: Extra woolly jumpers all round

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Outlook Ofgem's latest work on energy security makes bleak reading, but it is only half the picture. The regulator has looked at structural changes to the energy industry, but there is a mammoth financial challenge to address too, which the Government must work on in parallel with the Ofgem suggestions.

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