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Gartmore’s £1bn float to kick start surge in IPO

Fund management giant Gartmore is to list on the Stock Exchange, firing the starting gun on what is expected to be several major flotations in London in the next 12 months

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Analysis: 2010 will be the year of the float

From the London Eye to a Saga holiday and from cat and dog supermarket Pets at Home to Betfair, the second decade of the 21st century is to open with a flurry of flotations

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

Pennon’s profits gush is set to be staunched

Profits at South West Water are overflowing, indicating why regulator Ofwat is set to slap one of the biggest price cuts on Britain’s most expensive water company

Grid eyes a monopoly in London as it chases EDF

National Grid today admitted it is after an electricity and gas delivery monopoly in London as it confirmed it is in the running to make a bid for EDF’s £4 billion power network business

Kier opting for long-server as its new chief

When chief executive John Dodds retires at the age of 65 next year, Deena Mattar, Kier's 44-year-old finance director, and partner of Dodds after he left his wife for her two years ago, will not be succeeding him

Wolseley’s pain worsens in a tough building market

If the US and Britain are coming out of recession, someone has forgotten to tell Wolseley

Launch of new lobby group to speak for the Square Mile

The City begins its fight back this week with the launch of a lobby group to speak out for the financial services industry and allied professions in the Square Mile

EasyJet passenger growth slows after ‘sneaky’ fare rises

Growth and profits at easyJet are tumbling as passengers jib at the budget airline sneaking up fares and hitting them with baggage surcharges

General Motors beginning to turn round after dismal spell

General Motors, owner of Vauxhall in the UK, lost $400 million a month during the summer. But, says the bailed-out carmaking giant, GM is beginning to turn round

Persimmon signals hope for housebuilders

The housing industry is clawing itself out of recession according to figures from Persimmon

Novera’s wind farm plan hits turbulence

The hostile battle for control of Novera Energy took a new twist today as it emerged that one of the company’s pipeline wind farm projects could be halted by fears it could cause a mid-air fighter jet collision

BlueCrest’s millionaires are set to flee 50% tax rate

Dozens of millionaire traders at one of London’s most powerful hedge funds are to quit London for Switzerland ahead of the Labour government’s 50% top tax rate hitting from next April

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

OFT is probing bust firms ‘rip-offs’ by accountants

The big firms of accountants could be ripping off the British economy for million of pounds a year by charging high fees when dealing with companies that go bust

New train blow for National Express

National Express is set to be hit by a second massive body blow, the loss of its lucrative train franchise out of Liverpool Street to Essex and East Anglia

BA’s pension black hole could shoot down merger

A cloud was hanging over the £4 billion merger of British Airways and Iberia as City analysts warned the UK flag carrier's £2.6 billion pensions black hole could yet be a “show-stopper”

National Express rights issue cold-shouldered by Cosmen

National Express launched a hugely discounted rescue rights issue today without the support of its major shareholder and deputy chairman

SSE rules out cuts to bills as its profits surge by 36%

GAS and electricity prices are not coming down this winter and British households should be happy to be getting such good value domestic energy supply

220 jobs to go as the biscuit robots march in at Northern

Hundreds of northern bakers are to lose their jobs as they are replaced by robots at Fox’s Biscuits

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