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The party’s not over: City bankers are still hoping to celebrate big payouts

All I want to know is... how big is my bonus?

Cityboy is the banker who made his name by telling all about his wild times in high finance. Now as bonus season approaches, he says the City is filled with fear - and greed  Comments 
Protester at a climate change rally in London in 2007

Your guide to Copenhagen and the global climate change summit

Energy analysis: Here's what those over-informed environmentalists/spotty greeno-commies/clean-tech hedge fund managers are talking about  Comments 
China shoppers

China’s growing economic might is good for UK

Analysis: As Barack Obama visits Beijing, Goldman Sachs' expert on emerging markets argues London - rather than New York - is uniquely poised to benefit from China's boom  Comments 

Majestic bubbly but it’s still tough for wine trade

Analysis: Majestic Wine was popping the champagne corks as it posted first half sales up by £12.6m. But news from the rest of the off-licence industry is far more sober  Comments 

The hidden carbon cost of nuclear

Energy analysis: Weakened economies are producing less carbon and the demand for carbon credits is being outstripped by the supply  Comments 


 

Let’s hope that the Bank of England finally gets it right

So is that it for quantitative easing? That is the question the City is asking after the Bank of England chose to extend its printing money programme by “just” £25 billion  Comments 
Vogue front cover

Glossy mags are still in vogue despite tough times

Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be cheerful  Comments 

Banks in basket

For sale: Three UK banks surplus to requirements

Banking analysis: The Government wants to create three new High Street banks to increase competition in the UK - and today it finally became clear what these banks might look like  Comments 
John Varley

Awfully sorry, but Barclays looks in pretty good shape

Rebuilding Britain's banks: While most banking bosses stuggled to say the "s" word, the chief executive of Barclays, John Varley, has spent the last year saying sorry  Comments 

Derivative graphic

Derivatives are not weapons of mass destruction

After one expert on these pages argued $600 trillion market is big threat, a top risk manager responds  Comments 
Graph shows the hollowness of Brown’s economic claims

Foreign recovery could be a tonic for UK’s sick economy

Economics analysis: The Government has long boasted that Britain is better placed to deal with the global recession than other major nations  Comments 

Power station

Do we need new coal-fired power stations?

Energy analysis: The decision by E.ON this month to abandon plans to build a new coal-fired plant at its existing site at Kingsnorth in Kent was seen as a huge victory for the Green lobby  Comments 
The Guardian

How much pain can the Guardian take?

Media analysis: An air of trepidation is hanging over The Guardian’s new offices in Kings Place  Comments 

BNP leader Nick Griffin

Getting balance right between free speech and censorship

Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities  Comments 
Steve Jobs

Google is looking rocky while Apple enjoys a second wind

There was a subtle but significant shift in the Silicon Valley universe just the other week. On 12 October, Arthur D Levinson — chairman of Genentech — resigned from Google's board  Comments 

HSBC's HQ

Let’s hear it for the bank which takes pride in being dull

Rebuilding Britain's banks: When Britain's greatest comic writer PG Wodehouse penned Psmith In The City in 1908 there was more than a touch of the autobiographical about it  Comments 
Oil rig

On the brink - what happens after peak oil?

Energy analysis: Peak oil is the future time and place where the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction has been reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline and from where, it is said, the world implodes into global crisis, war and probably the eventual death of the planet  Comments 


 
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FRIDAY UPDATE

Morgan Stanley casts cloud over Thomas Cook and Tui

Shares of the UK’s two biggest package holiday operators were among the heaviest blue-chip fallers today after one broker decided that their outlook was far from sunny

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City Spy, cityspy@standard.co.uk

Mayday! Who will leave BA board?

“The board of British Airways, with fees of £50,000 a year for a part-time director attending seven meetings and all those unlimited first class flights for them and the family, has been one of the most eye-catching City gravy trains. But that train is about to get a lot shorter

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