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City Spy: Virgin faces a battle in Great North rail race

28.09.09

RAIL veteran Ian Yeowart is rattling the couplings of Virgin Trains by launching an all-new Great North Western Railways company on Virgin routes into Euston... more

City Spy: Busson's Ark sails through the storm

06.07.09

London's hedge fund community may have had a torrid time last year but at least its favoured charity, Arki Busson's ARK (or absolute return for kids), has shown the way in moneymaking. In the year to August 2008, its income rose from Ł32.7 million to Ł40.2 million. Furthermore, hedge fund turmoil is not expected to affect the levels of pledges. ARK acknowledges that "the level of outstanding donor pledges is considered to be one of the charity's key risks" but that all funding pledges "due for payment have been received to date." So hats off to the generous hedgies and let's hope that spirit continues.... more

Stephanie Flanders: How I juggle a dream job, world financial crisis and motherhood

20.05.09

You can sense that Stephanie Flanders does not suffer fools gladly. Colleagues describe her as imperious and scary. She doesn't like clichés much either. "The phrase 'green shoots' is the bane of my life," she says, wrinkling her nose ... more

Who was best at seeing the worst?

30.04.09

The race to claim intellectual pre-emption of the credit crunch reached the final furlong this week.... more

Work wars between Peston and Flanders

27.04.09

With the economy the story of the decade, the rivalry between BBC duo Robert Peston and Stephanie Flanders is now hotting up... more

Goldman goes quiet about rewarding staff

30.03.09

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The doomsday books are in fashion again

19.02.09

Forget the Great Depression of the 1930s. Economists and City analysts are looking into the history books to try to make sense of the mess we’re in and they’re pointing to two other periods: the early 1920s and the 1870s.... more

More quango jobs on Olympic gravy train

17.02.09

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Critics may carp but the media did good job of exposing crunch

11.02.09

Media analysis: We are reliably informed at regular intervals that the media, and newspapers in particular, are not trusted by the public... more

Hard to ignore Rogers’ bearish view of Britain

23.01.09

What to make of investment guru Jim Rogers’ damning of Britain’s faltering economy?... more

We don’t make plans, so no wonder it’s all going to pot

19.01.09

When Waterford Wedgwood went down, Robert Peston said, rightly, on the radio that the collapse of the pottery firm was a tragedy as it deprived Britain of a part of the manufacturing base it will need when the recession is over... more

Feeling sick at Citigroup over hedge losses

19.01.09

Citigroup's Corporate Special Opportunities hedge fund is returning only three cents on the dollar to investors — underscoring the depths of the difficulties at the alternative investment unit once headed by the bank’s current chief executive, Vikram Pandit... more

Credit crunch quiz

29.12.08

It was the year the economic bubble finally burst, but can you remember the financial events that made the headlines in 2008? Nick Curtis asks the questions... more

Ross knew the rules, so spare us this whitewash

15.12.08

Not for the first time in this year of all years, we're forced to contemplate the hubris of others... more

Zac stays loyal to eco-cause –but will Dave?

18.11.08

Zac Goldsmith is to present the Sustainable City Awards on behalf of the City of London Corporation... more

How Gordon can pour oil on troubled waters

29.10.08

Gordon Brown is banging on again about high petrol prices and oil companies making too much money. At the moment it’s BP, next it will be Shell. But who is really making the killing at the pumps? Yes, you guessed it, the PM and his Chancellor Alistair Darling... more

Suppliers pay the price for Tesco’s cuts

28.10.08

Oh dear. Tesco has launched its price-cutting campaign, apparently aimed at helping consumers battle their way through the credit crunch... more

Emotional debt in Faces in the Crowd

22.10.08

From a lofty position, audience members feel like voyeurs at the Royal Court's Faces in the Crowd. It makes for an intriguing evening.... more

Seven ways the credit crunch has changed our view of a Topsy Turvy world

21.10.08

The financial crisis, economic meltdown, credit crunch plus, or whatever we call it has almost imperceptibly changed our view of some universal truths that once seemed rock solid. We've all already acknowledged that climate change and the terrorist threat seem a little less pressing. So, in the interests of updating our inner lexicon, I thought it might help to examine some other newly unfixed positions.... more

BBC's Peston deserves credit, not blame, for his reporting of crunch

15.10.08

DURING a coffee break at a conference a couple of weeks ago, a senior BBC executive spent some time trying to explain to a group of us the phenomenon that is Robert Peston. He is not a natural broadcaster, she began. He lays stress on the wrong syllables. He is acutely prone to inappropriate pauses in mid-sentence. He leaves odd words hanging in the air. At times, he uses a portentous tone to convey completely banal information, like a primary school teacher talking down to her class.... more

Did Cameron let the cat out of the bag?

10.10.08

Michael Howard’s call for the Financial Services Authority to investigate the source of Robert Peston’s story about confidential talks between banking chiefs, the Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King that sparked a plunge in bank shares on Tuesday morning is interesting. ... more

Calls for probe to find the BBC 'mole in the City'

09.10.08

MPs have demanded a probe into whether City "dirty tricks" were behind the BBC's scoop on the Government's bank rescue plan.... more

WSJ’s worthy reporting of financial meltdown lacks punch or panache

08.10.08

There is, in case you haven’t noticed it, a global financial crisis going on. So you might expect the largest-selling business newspaper in the Western world, the Wall Street Journal, to be reflecting that sorry state of affairs... more

We’re all blabbing about our money now

08.10.08

The spread of fear in London has not followed the pattern of the classic horror movie. There was no slow build-up of tension, no gradual realisation of the danger ahead. One day the panic was something Robert Peston discussed on the BBC. The next, it was everywhere... more

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08.10.08

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How dithering Darling failed to please bankers or the markets

07.10.08

When Chancellor Alastair Darling rose to address MPs on the financial crisis at 3.29 pm yesterday the FTSE 100 share index was a mere 200 points down... more

Sue Nye is in spotlight over Peston scoops

03.10.08

BBC Business editor Robert Peston has been leading the pack with his stories on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger and the run on Northern Rock. But where does he get his information?... more

Revealing nature of the Beeb’s flourishing tall poppy

24.09.08

Profile: The BBC's business editor Robert Peston landed blockbuster scoops with the HBOS takeover and Northern Rock but his rivals don't always take kindly to his style... more

Views matter as much as news for business audience in digital age

17.09.08

The suggestion that the world was about to end because of the CERN atom-smashing experiment was nothing more than a laughable fantasy. But the turmoil that is lashing the Western world’s financial system is an increasingly uncomfortable reality.... more