Evening Standard - Business

City Spy: Americans aren’t Havana laugh at our jokes

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:27:46 BST

The old ones are the best.

Interview: Let’s put out a welcome mat for our big-spending visitors

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:34 BST

The man in the hot seat at £4 billion hotels group has an urgent message for politicians as nine times as many Chinese go to Germany as to the UK.

On Property: Noel bares all… down to the bottom line

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:21:09 BST

The new chief executive of Britain’s biggest and still grandest property company, Rob Noel, has a tattoo on his rump.

Lingerie double lift as Victoria’s Secret and Agent Provocateur expand their briefs

Laura Chesters — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:17:03 BST

The £3.6 billion UK lingerie market will be lifted this summer by lingerie brands expanding in London.

Mallett swings into buying mode after showroom move pays off

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:12:03 BST

Upmarket antique furniture and art dealer Mallett is in the market to buy fresh stock, having made a £1.3 million profit from moving its showrooms from New Bond Street to nearby Ely House in Dover Street.

Goldman hired by Spain to advise on struggling Bankia

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:06:10 BST

The vampire squid is thrusting its tentacles back into the eurozone crisis. Goldman Sachs has been hired by the beleaguered Spanish government to examine the books of the part-nationalised lender, Bankia.

Market Round Up: Facebook effect cheers traders but fails to lift market gloom

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:57:00 BST

Facebook’s mega-float was the only thing cheering up traders as they fretted about a “Grexit” on another grim day for European equities.

G4S brings in former Deloitte chief

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:52:45 BST

Fearsome bean-counter John Connolly has been drafted in as chairman of G4S, the security firm that will protect visitors to this summer’s Olympic Games.

Grexit Strategists: how algorithms could make or break the euro

Simon English — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:32:46 BST

Pour yourself a gin and tonic. Easy on the tonic. Wrap an ice cold towel around your head. Try to relax.

LSE boss Rolet ‘optimistic’ on single currency

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:42:49 BST

Xavier Rolet, the Frenchman who has run the London Stock Exchange for the past three years is cautiously optimistic that the eurozone crisis is about to play itself out and the single currency will survive.

Sales at Mitchells & Butlers shrunk by the downpours

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:28:57 BST

Mitchells & Butlers, the owner of some of Britain’s best-known pubs today said sales had actually fallen during April as the rain poured down.

Bets against Spain pile up as spectre of default looms

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:21:36 BST

Bets against beleaguered Spain and its banks hit an all-time high today as alarm over the prospect of Greece pulling out of the euro kept the nation in the eye of the storm.

UK in pork export deal with China

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:16:22 BST

The UK's pork producers are toasting a new deal to increase exports to China.