Chris Blackhurst

05.11.09

This week in New York, Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. Here, the man who most Londoners would want to challenge Boris Johnson has put his...
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04.11.09

The High Street is about to undergo radical change… all thanks to a feisty woman in Brussels

03.11.09

Are we any further down the road to recovery in the banking industry? Ask me that question in a year's time, when we've finally come to realise the...
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03.11.09

Are we any further down the road to recovery in the banking industry? Ask me that question in a year’s time, when we’ve finally come to realise the...
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02.11.09

Does the European Commission watch Strictly Come Dancing? Because if they did, they might appreciate the two steps forward, one step back nature of...
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02.11.09

We were sitting in Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's (I know, I know, it's part of the job and I wasn't paying) and the chat turned to office sex.

29.10.09

In Parliament, in the City, the high-ups are reeling. They moan to anyone who will listen how hard done by they feel, how misunderstood they are

28.10.09

Never one to go quietly, the former Lupus Capital chief wants to clear out the bosses and reinstate himself

19.10.09

IT is next June and George Osborne is at the Mansion House, having delivered his first Emergency Budget. He's shocked the country, having delivered a...
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16.10.09

A friend of mine who is something of an internet guru once pitched for a job to revamp a well-known company's website. Later, the managing director...
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15.10.09

AS he enters the Pearly Gates, it’s tempting to think of Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street banker, who died yesterday, sizing them up for an asset...
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14.10.09

Guy Hands’ £3.2bn for EMI still seems an incredible amount – can his new CEO make it all work?

14.10.09

An all-too-familiar ritual is being played out with bank bonuses

09.10.09

Suddenly, it’s starting to feel like old times. Royal Mail workers have voted to strike; British Airways cabin crew may follow

07.10.09

Plans are afoot for oil to cease being priced in the US dollar but in a grouping of other currencies, including the Chinese yuan. Henceforth, the...
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05.10.09

When I visited the office of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius recently, he proudly showed me a corridor, the walls of which were covered with portraits...
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02.10.09

The friend dropped his bombshell. He was clearing off. He'd worked it out: soon he would be paying 50 per cent income tax as a high earner, the...
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01.10.09

While what is left of our major armaments industry is put through the wringer, the rest of the world’s defence companies must be chortling

30.09.09

Richard Brown is getting the Channel train service ready for what may prove to be an almighty battle between his company, the French and the Germans

28.09.09

The worlds of business and entertainment came together in spectacular fashion at the weekend in one of the most extravagant wedding parties London has...
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