Frieze Art Fair: Photographer Taryn Simon goes into microscopic detail to investigate her themes and tell some extraordinary human stories, she tells Sue Steward... more
London's position as a global financial centre is under threat from the proposed merger of Deutsche Borse and NYSE Euronext, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange has said... more
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, was today locked in with advisers after his sweetened bid last night for the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange was trumped within hours. ... more
When Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange said they might bid for the New York Stock Exchange group they knew from the start the proposed combination of all their exchanges could cause public policy issues in America... more
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, is keeping a close eye on rival stock markets' urge to merge even as he pushes his own £4.2 billion deal with Canada's TMX Group forward... more
NASDAQ OMX and the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) tries to smash up the agreed merger between NYSE Euronext and the Deutsche Börse with an $11.3 billion bid for its Euro-American rival... more
Much has been made of Laura Wade-Gery's move from Tesco to Marks & Spencer to beef up its online offering. The stock market - that great arbiter of value - decided she was worth the equivalent of four Fernando Torres, adding £200 million to Marks' market value after her appointment was announced... more
Market Round-up: Word on the grapevine has it that LVMH snapped up its Hermès stake because another suitor — rumoured to be a Chinese sovereign wealth fund — was interested... more
City Comment: Shareholding institutions are under a lot of pressure to be more engaged owners of their stocks, so the cross-border action by Hermes in Germany was interesting... more
Timing is everything in the stock market, which is why Goldman Sachs has removed shares in the London Stock Exchange from its influential Conviction Buy list and downgraded their rating to neutral ... more
The London Stock Exchange is set to take over Turquoise, the share trading platform set up by nine big investment banks to challenge the Exchange’s dominance in the UK equity market ... more
Turquoise, the European share trading system which rivals the London Stock Exchange and was founded by nine investment banks, has been put up for sale ... more
Lord Levene, chairman of Lloyd’s of London, is wont to say that he represents one area of the financial services industry not dragged down by the financial crisis ... more
One of my favourite City lunch companions is a true gentleman, but by his second glass of white burgundy he has barely a civil word to say about Clara Furse. She's destroyed half the City, she's marched the London Stock Exchange up to the top of the hill and down again and she doesn't listen to the very stockbrokers she's meant to work for, he decries. ... more
Holding shares in the big banks should come with a health warning these days. HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, slumped 24% last week, wiping £15 billion from the company's stock-market value... more
The four short-listed contenders in the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize are stretching out lazily in the new building of the Photographers' Gallery.... more
Finance: A third of trades on Europe's traditional stock exchanges are not being completed at the best price available, according to a study by pan-European equity trading platform Equiduct... more
Merrill Lynch’s Bob Wigley seems firmly established as bookies’ favourite to take over from Dame Clara Furse as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange later this year... more
After hosting the prestigious Deutsche Borse Prize, director Brett Rogers is turning her attention to plans for a new, improved Photographers' Gallery.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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