HSBC primed for fury among shareholders over subprime fiasco and payLONDON BRIEFING: Annual shareholder meetings have become a lightning rod for anger over executive salariesWed May 28 2008 - 01:00
MS celebrations as £1bn profit barrier broken likely to be briefLONDON BRIEFING: AFTER 10 long years of boardroom bust-ups, ill-fated overseas expansion and an abortive takeover assault, Marks…Wed May 21 2008 - 01:00
Best Buy/Carphone assault alarms electrical retailing sectorLONDON BRIEFING: IT STARTED with a single store - Sound of Music - which opened in the American Midwest in 1966Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
Bumbling Boris recruits some of the City's finestLONDON BRIEFING: LONDON'S NEW mayor has always had lofty ambitionsWed May 07 2008 - 01:00
Fingleton's relentless quest winning him few friendsLONDON BRIEFING: CONSUMER CHAMPION or rogue regulator? Opinion on John Fingleton, the Irishman who heads Britain's Office of…Wed Apr 30 2008 - 01:00
T5 could be terminal for WalshLONDON BRIEFING: IF ONLY Willie Walsh could have acted with such ruthless efficiency a fortnight agoWed Apr 16 2008 - 01:00
T5 teething problems cause terminal damage to HeathrowLONDON BRIEFING: PASSENGERS AWAITING the return of their bags from Heathrow's Terminal 5 can now while away the hours, or days…Wed Apr 02 2008 - 01:00
A long way to go before crisis peaksLONDON BRIEFING: THERE'S A new high-stakes game that stressed-out bankers are playing these daysWed Mar 19 2008 - 00:00
HSBC experiences records at opposite ends of the scaleLONDON BRIEFING: BANKING GIANT HSBC saved the best - and the worst - 'til last on Monday as it brought Britain's 2007 banking…Wed Mar 05 2008 - 00:00
Nationalisation means that Northern Rock is now in a safe placeLondon Briefing: Some prefer National Rock, others Northern Wreck or the People's Bank, but the most apt name now for the nationalised…Wed Feb 20 2008 - 00:00
Shutters go up on British property fundsLondon Briefing: As panicked shareholders rushed to dump equities this week amid growing fears of global recession, investors…Wed Jan 23 2008 - 00:00
Focus on M&S as another bad year feared in sectorLondon Briefing: All eyes in the retail sector today will be on the newly knighted Marks & Spencer chief, Sir Stuart Rose…Wed Jan 09 2008 - 00:00
Campaign wrong to bank on NatWest ThreeLondon Briefing: In a Texas courtroom last week, three British bankers finally admitted their part in the web of deception that…Wed Dec 05 2007 - 00:00
Britain's biggest brewer makes stout standLondon Briefing: When Australian bidders attempted to take over Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) almost 20 years ago, the …Wed Nov 21 2007 - 00:00
BSkyB stake sees ITV price come crashing downLondon Briefing: As shares in commercial broadcaster ITV crumble to fresh lows almost daily, the honeymoon period for executive…Wed Nov 14 2007 - 00:00
Bargain hunters hope for reboundLondon Briefing: When small investors pile in, it must be time to sell.Wed Oct 24 2007 - 01:00
Accident-prone Barclays in need of miracleLondon Briefing Only a miracle can save Barclays' bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro from ignominious defeat at the hands of the rival…Wed Sept 05 2007 - 01:00
Brave investors advised to take advantage of market turmoilLondon Briefing: Is now the time to start buying shares? The panic that gripped global stock markets last week wiped out all…Wed Aug 15 2007 - 01:00
City turns on retail maverick who scoffs at 'cry baby' investorsLondon Briefing: Perhaps Mike Ashley didn't quite catch what his PR flacks said when they urged him to embark on a "charm offensive…Wed Aug 01 2007 - 01:00
Qatar-backed fund makes supermarket sweep for J SainsburyLondon Briefing: Rarely has there been as colourful a cast of characters as those who hold the future of Britain's third-largest…Wed Jul 25 2007 - 01:00
Vodafone casts doubt on talk of takeover slowdownLondon Briefing: Even as a new report this week predicted the end of the long-running global takeover boom, rumours of a mammoth…Wed Jul 18 2007 - 01:00
Signs of slowdown worry retailersLondon Briefing: As interest rates rose last week to their highest levels in 6½ years, signs of a slowdown in the…Wed Jul 11 2007 - 01:00
Unions look in vain to Brown to tame rampant private equity industryLondon Briefing Less than a week into Gordon Brown's premiership any hopes the trade unions had that Britain's new prime minister…Wed Jul 04 2007 - 01:00
Proud symbol of British industry under hammerLondon Briefing: The £7.2 billion (€10Wed Jun 20 2007 - 01:00
Activist investors make presence felt in boardroomLondon Briefing: Shareholder activists are out in force in the City this summer - and they have some of Britain's biggest companies…Wed Jun 13 2007 - 01:00
Reclusive billionaire bids for NewcastleFor someone who prefers to keep a low profile, sportswear billionaire Mike Ashley certainly has a knack of hitting the headlines…Wed May 30 2007 - 01:00
Information pack debacle fuels housing fearsLondon Briefing: Is Britain's booming housing market on the brink of collapse?Wed May 23 2007 - 01:00
The fall from grace of the 'Sun King' of oilLondon Briefing: Chief executives come and go; some get fired because they are not up to the job, others have their fingers …Wed May 09 2007 - 01:00
Private-equity raiders scrutinised as they carve up high-street namesLondon Briefing: The City of London has been at its brutal best - or worst - over the past 48 hours of frenzied deal-making.Wed Apr 25 2007 - 01:00
Corks pop as hedge fund players report sparkling resultsLondon Briefing: Mayfair's swanky restaurants are likely to serve up even more champagne than usual this week, as new figures…Wed Apr 18 2007 - 01:00
Private-equity raider still has appetite to buy out SainsburyLondon Briefing: When is a consortium not a consortium? When there's only one member left - as CVC Capital Partners could tell…Wed Apr 11 2007 - 01:00
Barclays/ABN Amro merger would create £80 billion global banking giantLondon Briefing: Even analysts who predicted 2007 would be the year of the takeover have been astonished at the deal frenzy …Wed Mar 21 2007 - 00:00
Volatility serves as timely reminder that all is not wellLondon Briefing: Crash or correction? That is the only topic of conversation in dealing rooms and bars around the Square Mile…Wed Mar 07 2007 - 00:00
Bank customers come looking for paybackLondon Briefing: It's bank-bashing time again, as the reporting season gets into full swing with figures from Barclays yesterday…Wed Feb 21 2007 - 00:00
Sainsbury's proves a tempting target for private equity playersLondon Briefing: Is J Sainsbury destined to enter the record books as Europe's biggest-ever private equity buyout? Or will the…Wed Feb 07 2007 - 00:00
Shoppers may have to pay the price for Tesco's environmentally friendly policyLondon Briefing: A cynic would say that there was nothing coincidental about the timing last week of Tesco's big "green" initiative…Wed Jan 24 2007 - 00:00
Damning indictment sees Sun King leave BP empire under a cloudLondon Briefing: It was all so different a year ago: Lord John Browne of Madingley, chief executive of BP, had just been voted…Wed Jan 17 2007 - 00:00
Little Chef must find a new recipeLondon Briefing: The race to rescue Little Chef, one of Britain's oldest and best-known roadside restaurant chains, sparked …Wed Jan 10 2007 - 00:00
Festive sales unlikely to bring cheer for retailersLondon Briefing: By the end of the week, the tinsel and trees will have been consigned to the trash - and by the end of the …Wed Jan 03 2007 - 00:00
Goldman Sachs trader's bumper €74.5m bonus reignites pay debateLondon Briefing: There was only one topic of conversation last week in the City of London: the £50 million (€74Wed Dec 20 2006 - 00:00
Battle for Corus accelerates steel sector's frenzy for dealsLondon Briefing: Christmas has come early for Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker whose shares were languishing at the equivalent…Wed Dec 13 2006 - 00:00
Premier's shares looks tasty after RHM takeoverLondon Briefing: A glance through the takeover documents for RHM from its rival Premier Foods is like taking a trip down memory…Wed Dec 06 2006 - 00:00
BSkyB bid the latest twist in plot to buy ITVLondon Briefing: Breathtaking in its audacity and devastating in its simplicity: the move by British Sky Broadcasting to snap…Wed Nov 22 2006 - 00:00
M&S gearing up to face Christmas testLondon Briefing: As 1960s icon Twiggy and a bevy of beautiful models look on, Dame Shirley Bassey belts out her Goldfinger-style…Wed Nov 15 2006 - 00:00
Anglo American appointment could be sign of new dynamicLondon Briefing: Critics of the powerful South African mining industry have long argued that its boardrooms are "too pale and…Wed Nov 01 2006 - 00:00
Lloyd's rescue plan is Buffett's boldest move yetWarren Buffett did not become the world's second-richest man by playing it safeWed Oct 25 2006 - 01:00
Dull infrastructure stocks enjoying their day in the sunLondon Briefing: Forget about online poker or dotcom mania mark two: the hottest stocks on the market right now are the dull…Wed Oct 18 2006 - 01:00
Troubled ITV channels energy into search for chief executiveLondon Briefing: Wanted: Chief executive to restore fortunes of faded media companyWed Oct 11 2006 - 01:00
Fidelity's 'Silver Assassin' hands over the reinsLondon Briefing: He's known as London's "Silent Assassin", respected and feared in equal measureWed Sept 27 2006 - 01:00
