Resources investors would do well to sit tightLast week's big slide in the oil price came in the wake of a hit to mining stocks caused by China's surprise hike in interest…Fri Nov 12 2004 - 00:00
Property crash unlikely but party is endingProperty investors will have taken notice of the fact that UK house prices have started to fallFri Nov 05 2004 - 00:00
'Nation of shopkeepers' provides good study in market forcesLondon Briefing: Napoleon famously derided the British as a "nation of shopkeepers", a description no doubt apt in the early…Wed Oct 27 2004 - 01:00
Educated baby boomers want our jobsLondon Briefing: Tony Blair continues to argue that education remains at the top of New Labour's priority listWed Oct 20 2004 - 01:00
Changing demographics present stark choices over pensionsLondon Briefing: Anyone reading the "Millions facing pensions misery" headlines of the past couple of days might think that we…Wed Oct 13 2004 - 01:00
Class war is no substitute for efficiencyClass warfare is still alive and kicking in the UK, albeit in ways that warriors of old would hardly recogniseWed Sept 22 2004 - 01:00
'Loony left' tag overshadows Livingstone's achievements in transportLondon Briefing: Transport for London (TfL) is the self-styled "integrated body responsible for the capital's transport system…Wed Sept 08 2004 - 01:00
BA cost cuts may have gone too farThe chief executive of British Airways, Ron Eddington, spent last weekend helping out at Heathrow's check-in desks following …Wed Sept 01 2004 - 01:00
Commodities bust may not be inevitableThe sequence of events following my suggestions, made in the first quarter of 2004, about the attractiveness of commodity- related…Fri Aug 27 2004 - 01:00
Bank of England needs more statisticsLondon Briefing: According to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, Britain's manufacturing industry is now growing…Wed Aug 04 2004 - 01:00
Congestion charging beats gridlockLondon Briefing: The success of Ken Livingstone's traffic congestion charge has been evident for some timeWed Jul 28 2004 - 01:00
Identifying your goals is key to investingSerious Money: There are three common financial questions people often throw at meFri Jul 23 2004 - 01:00
Brown's review has yet to fully calm fears of future tax risesLondon Briefing: Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Gordon Brown's latest review of public spending plans contained little that …Wed Jul 21 2004 - 01:00
It looks like we're being softened up for tough talking on pensionsLondon Briefing: New Labour has a peculiar relationship with the truthWed Jun 23 2004 - 01:00
With so much at stake, things could get uglyLondon Letter: The only thing the City likes more than a bitter boardroom coup is a full-blown contested takeover bidWed Jun 02 2004 - 01:00
A little work can profit individual investorSerious Money: Can the individual investor hope to compete with the professionals? Is it worth the effort? asks Chris JohnsFri Apr 09 2004 - 01:00
Policy dilemma on interest ratesLondon Briefing: Tomorrow's meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC) sees London's tribe of interest-rate forecasters …Wed Apr 07 2004 - 01:00
Europe's ills make euro even less attractiveThe No campaign has declared victory and shut up shop, confident that Britain's chances of joining the euro are as close to zero…Wed Mar 24 2004 - 00:00
Equities will remain dominant investmentSerious Money: In the medium term, the reviving markets are more likely to muddle through than go pear-shapedFri Mar 19 2004 - 00:00
Banks out of favour for the smart investorSerious Money: Competition is hurting bank profits and in many countries the regulators are getting involved, which means that…Fri Mar 05 2004 - 00:00
Vodafone gets thumbs up from tipsters but Asia is key to futureSerious Money: Out of 35 global investment banks, 25 rate Vodafone as a "buy"Fri Feb 20 2004 - 00:00
China is proving to be the powerhouse behind the Far East revivalAsia: Asia is boomingFri Jan 02 2004 - 00:00
What you see is not really what you getLondon Briefing: The London Stock Exchange (LSE) will be moving premises next year, just down the road to the newly redeveloped…Wed Dec 17 2003 - 00:00
Relative absence of corruption in the City keeps sector a world-beaterLondon Briefing: The UK financial services industry, often referred to as "The City", is the country's single biggest export…Wed Nov 26 2003 - 00:00
Globalisation may mean it's too early to say 'so long' to interest rate fearsLast week's rise in UK interest rates has been described as the first of not very manyWed Nov 12 2003 - 00:00
Public-private projects offer solutions but a quick fix is not one of themLondon Briefing: If one of the key features of fascism is the ability to make trains run on time then nobody could accuse the…Wed Oct 22 2003 - 01:00
History offers lessons on growthLondon Briefing: One of the great internet success stories of recent years has been the decision to place online the results…Wed Oct 15 2003 - 01:00
No need to despair about Dyson's departure from British shoresLondon Briefing: Dyson is a British manufacturer of high-specification washing machines and vacuum cleaners that has received…Wed Aug 27 2003 - 01:00
Fickle market means 'bear' forecast could be right or very wrongLondon Briefing: Tony Dye was the UK fund management industry's most high-profile casualty of the equity boom and bust.Wed Aug 20 2003 - 01:00
Frequent flyer suffers terminal discomfortGround Floor As somebody who has averaged four flights a week for the past 10 years, I can attest to the fact that travelling…Fri Jun 20 2003 - 01:00
Watching euro is like watching British tennisIn some parts of the US they are now talking about Europe as the next "failed state"Wed May 14 2003 - 01:00
Euro fails Brown's tests but political case lingersLONDON BRIEFING: As the war with Iraq starts to disappear from the front pages, it is tempting to quote Winston Churchill's …Wed Apr 23 2003 - 01:00
London Briefing Chris Johns Predicting the outcome before the blood shedsLondon Briefing: A massive rally in US and European equities has taken UK equities up 15 per cent, at the time of writing at…Wed Mar 19 2003 - 00:00
Falling markets deepen pension crisis but they didn't cause itQuite understandably, nobody feels sorry for investment bankers or stockbrokers.Wed Feb 12 2003 - 00:00
Euro job may prompt Blair to exit Downing StModern British political history has witnessed a recurring pantomime that has seen most of the leading actors departing the …Wed Jan 22 2003 - 00:00
War looms but joining the euro is the questionLONDON BRIEFING: Attitudes towards potential war with Iraq vary across countries and the differences that arise are pretty much…Wed Jan 08 2003 - 00:00
Tony Blair - an excellent judge of timing or just plain lucky?LONDON BRIEFING: The management style of the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, is starting to attract attention - and little…Wed Dec 04 2002 - 00:00
Booming Republic is here to stayEuro-Zone interest rates are going up, probably as soon as next weekFri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00
McCreevy should cut taxes to the fullest extentThe ESRI created a small stir recently when it forecast an imminent move to an overall balance of payments deficit - after years…Fri Sept 03 1999 - 01:00
