When tax man is too disgruntled to collect taxesLONDON BRIEFING: THE PEOPLE who collect our taxes are, it seems, just as depressed about it as the rest of us.Wed Mar 10 2010 - 00:00
UK regulator's future up in the air as chief takes flightLONDON BRIEFING: Hector Sants’ decision to quit throws the already uncertain fate of the FSA further into confusionWed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
A year for breaking records of the unwanted kindLONDON BRIEFING: Public borrowing, bank losses and, astonishingly, banker bonuses reached new highs in 2009Wed Dec 30 2009 - 00:00
Gatwick's sale will do little to ease travellers' woesLONDON BRIEFING: Gordon Brown’s hopes of an economic Christmas present are cruelly dashedWed Dec 23 2009 - 00:00
Emergency loan revelation leaves no doubt UK banks were just hours from meltdownLONDON BRIEFING: Details of secret Bank of England loans worth £62bn have only now been revealedWed Nov 25 2009 - 00:00
Sainsbury's boosted by bid speculation as Cadbury set to make case for defenceLONDON BRIEFING: AS CADBURY awaits the next move from its US predator Kraft, another British household-name company finds itself…Wed Oct 21 2009 - 01:00
Rising property prices are back - but it could be a short visitLONDON BRIEFING: Prices in London are back to pre-Lehman Brothers levels – but can this trend continue?Wed Oct 07 2009 - 01:00
Cash and climate key challenges as BA launches business service to New YorkLONDON BRIEFING: THE MAGICAL BA001 flight number was called over an airport Tannoy system once again yesterday for the first…Wed Sept 30 2009 - 01:00
Price is not right for some as ITV seeks saviour to avert disasterLONDON BRIEFING : The package on offer to head ITV is lavish enough to make even a banker blushWed Sept 23 2009 - 01:00
Battle for Cadbury leaves sour taste as Kraft makes its moveLONDON BRIEFING: Any post-holiday depression in the City has been blown away by a flurry of dealsWed Sept 09 2009 - 01:00
Watchdog's bark raises hackles in the Square MileLONDON BRIEFING : City of London watchdog makes a radical call to curb a ‘swollen’ financial sectorWed Sept 02 2009 - 01:00
Recession may result in lost generation of young adultsLONDON BRIEFING: Tens of thousands of school leavers and graduates are battling for jobs in the UKWed Aug 26 2009 - 01:00
Britain's 'most powerful civil servant' decides to jump shipLONDON BRIEFING: JUST HOW safe is the British taxpayers’ enforced, multibillion-pound investment in the bailed-out banking sector…Wed Jul 29 2009 - 01:00
Swine flu the latest big imponderable for the CityLONDON BRIEFING : The celebrations over positive retail results could be cut short by the looming pandemicWed Jul 22 2009 - 01:00
Optimistic economists taken by surpriseLONDON BRIEFING: New data reveals the UK recession is worse than previously thought, but some still believe a recovery is under…Wed Jul 01 2009 - 01:00
Hester puts £10 million pay where his mouth isLONDON BRIEFING: RBS’s new chief made the right noises about boardroom excess, and then dived right inWed Jun 24 2009 - 01:00
Disgraced banker's rapid rehabilitationLONDON BRIEFING: SHOULD DISGRACED bankers be given a second chance? Or should they be made to pay for their sins for the rest…Wed Jun 10 2009 - 01:00
Takeover does little to ease worries of Vauxhall workersLONDON BRIEFING: THE FINANCIAL headlines have been dominated this week by the collapse into bankruptcy of General Motors, the…Wed Jun 03 2009 - 01:00
Backlash over directors with their snouts in the troughLONDON BRIEFING: REVOLTS OVER boardroom pay are nothing new – those with long enough memories will recall the strange spectacle…Wed May 27 2009 - 01:00
M&S boss invokes spirit of Wellington ahead of bold retreat on dividendsLONDON BRIEFING: Stuart Rose was not in ‘green shoots’ mode as he predicted another tough year ahead, writes FIONA WALSH…Wed May 20 2009 - 01:00
Opposition to runway takes off as business class joins inLONDON BRIEFING: BRITISH BUSINESS leaders have weighed into the debate over the future of Heathrow airport, coming down firmly…Wed May 06 2009 - 01:00
Sugar the people's choice as mayor of LondonLONDON BRIEFING: HE MAY have missed out on a Bafta at the weekend, but celebrity businessman and television star Sir Alan Sugar…Wed Apr 29 2009 - 01:00
UK braces itself for Darling's 'budget from hell'LONDON BRIEFING: EVEN BEFORE Alistair Darling utters a word, it has been dubbed the “budget from hell”Wed Apr 22 2009 - 01:00
Darling driven to distraction on aid to car makersLONDON BRIEFING: WITH JUST a week to go before the budget, and when his mind should surely be on higher things, chancellor Alistair…Wed Apr 15 2009 - 01:00
M&S's Rose takes a work hard, play hard approachLONDON BRIEFING: NO WONDER Sir Stuart Rose shrugged off the flurry of disapproving headlines that greeted pictures of him leaving…Wed Apr 01 2009 - 01:00
Reviled London bankers the focus of demonstrations next weekLONDON BRIEFING: As the G20 leaders visit next week for talks on the global financial crisis, protesters plan to bring London…Wed Mar 25 2009 - 00:00
Cheers and high fives all round at John Lewis storesLONDON BRIEFING: THERE AREN’T many company bosses these days who can raise a cheer from their employeesWed Mar 18 2009 - 00:00
Return of The Rock a banking horror movie sequelLONDON BRIEFING: The decision to bring Northern Rock back into the mortgage market is unlikely to work out, writes FIONA WALSH…Wed Feb 25 2009 - 00:00
Bankers lightly grilled, but escape roasting at WestminsterLONDON BRIEFING: LIKE THIEVES in the night, they crept into Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday through a discreet side…Wed Feb 11 2009 - 00:00
Despite weak festive season, Tesco's profits powerhouse still impressiveLONDON BRIEFING: IS THE Tesco profits powerhouse finally running out of steam? Britain’s biggest supermarkets group suffered…Wed Jan 14 2009 - 00:00
As household names shut up shop, survival feels like successLONDON BRIEFING: Debenhams and Next shares surged after their Christmas trade merely disappointed, but as Waterford and Woolworths…Wed Jan 07 2009 - 00:00
UK high street and the invasion of the killer international credit crunchTHIS WAS the year the credit crunch hit the high street, as the financial contagion that sprang from the subprime mortgage market…Fri Jan 02 2009 - 00:00
In the recession-hit British retail sector, January begins tonightLONDON BRIEFING : As Christmas gets later and later on the high street, the January sales get earlierWed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Sterling's sorry state a tale of woe for retailersLONDON BRIEFING : The dramatic slide in the currency mirrors the worsening outlook for the UK economyWed Dec 17 2008 - 00:00
Carphone Warehouse tycoon makes wrong call over sharesThe mobile firm's flamboyant co-founder is Boris Johnson's latest adviser to step downWed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
The return of the £100,000 London homeLONDON BRIEFING: HOUSE PRICES in the UK capital have hit the front pages once again, with the London Evening Standard yesterday…Wed Dec 03 2008 - 00:00
Chancellor opts for pay now, pain later approach to boost UK economyLONDON BRIEFING: FOR THE right-wing Daily Mail , it was a "fiscal atom bomb"Wed Nov 26 2008 - 00:00
Mathewson-Burt plan is long on rhetoric but short on detailsLONDON BRIEFING: Two Scottish banking veterans have come out of retirement to oppose Lloyds TSB's HBOS bidWed Nov 12 2008 - 00:00
Will the Bank of England finally throw caution to the wind on interest rates?LONDON BRIEFING: A cut of more than half a point would be unprecedented, but might not be enoughWed Nov 05 2008 - 00:00
Meltdown in Iceland hits High Street in BritainLONDON BRIEFING : THE CREDIT crunch hit home - hard - yesterday for some 300,000 British savers who had stashed their cash with…Wed Oct 08 2008 - 01:00
Queen's tailor hangs by a thread while furniture kingpin's future looks ricketyLONDON BRIEFING: Problems of Queen's dressmaker are being replicated by retailers throughout the countryWed Oct 01 2008 - 01:00
Reality sets in after market euphoriaLONDON BRIEFING: As a 'superbank' takes shape, the market is on the lookout for the next casualty of the crisisWed Sept 24 2008 - 01:00
Olympian task ahead for Bumbling Boris's City HallLONDON BRIEFING: The city is hoping its mayor's fumbling of the Olympic flag is not a portent of trouble ahead.Wed Aug 27 2008 - 01:00
Cleaning products firm still believes where there's muck there's brassLONDON BRIEFING: The world's largest maker of household cleaning products looks anything but stupid, writes Fiona Walsh.Wed Jul 30 2008 - 01:00
Sarin's exit ruined by Vodafone warning of slowing salesLONDON BRIEFING: WHEN Arun Sarin revealed earlier this year that he was to quit as chief executive of Vodafone he must have …Wed Jul 23 2008 - 01:00
Relief and regret as Santander deal offers some 'certainty'LONDON BRIEFING: THERE WAS relief and regret in equal measure this week as the Spanish bank Grupo Santander swept in with its…Wed Jul 16 2008 - 01:00
Rose may lack stamina to halt wilting profits at MSLONDON BRIEFING: WHEN MARKS & Spencer shareholders gathered at London's Royal Festival Hall four years ago, it was a jubilant…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
Many Londoners to sympathise with protesting truckersLONDON BRIEFING: CENTRAL LONDON will be brought to a halt again today as hundreds of lorry drivers converge on the capital in…Wed Jul 02 2008 - 01:00
For a successful cash call, it helps to be first in the queueLONDON BRIEFING: HBOS shares are sliding in the run-up to its rights issue, but RBS pulled off a massive fundraisingWed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Underwriters let off the hook by a most hospitable BBLONDON BRIEFING: WHAT ARE underwriters for? After the extraordinary U-turn performed by besieged buy-to-let mortgage lender …Wed Jun 04 2008 - 01:00
