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Ocado prepares for $1bn stock market flotation

08.02.10
Ocado takes a step closer to a stock market flotation as appoints advisers for a shares sale that could come as early as May... more

City Spy: Pride comes before EMI fall for Guy Hands

08.02.10
With the perfect vision of 20:20 hindsight, it's easy to say that Guy Hands made a mistake with EMI... more

City Spy: Hands up! No need to be so coy about EMI

05.02.10
GUY Hands’ nightmare with EMI just gets worse... more

Pearson buys Medley to aid FT's move to digital

03.02.10
Financial Times publisher Pearson continues its move away from print to subscription businesses by buying Medley Global Advisors... more

Market report: Miners tipped for success despite fears over China

03.02.10
The only way is up for miners. That’s according to Redburn Partners, which today accused investors in the sector of myopia... more

City Spy: You too can be in debt to Manchester United

26.01.10
Things have come to a pretty pass for Manchester United when even Gordon Brown and Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill feel moved to comment about the club’s debt... more

Don't knock the bankers - the City has failed them too

26.01.10
City Comment: Last night I phoned a banker friend I have known for about 12 years, in search of the usual chat — a gossip, a tip, and pointed references to his bonus. “I just got binned,” he said, clearly shaken, which changed the tone... more

How the 'four Cs' could have saved banks from a lot of grief

25.01.10
City Comment: On the day that President Obama delivered his knockout blow to the banks, I was meeting a senior City figure. We both admitted to being totally perplexed by the banks — how intelligent people should get it so hopelessly wrong... more

Goldman Sachs caps UK partners' pay at £1m

25.01.10
The 100 Goldman Sachs bank partners who work in Britain are restricting their pay and bonus for 2009 to £1 million each... more

Wall Street bank giants agonise over mass sell-off

25.01.10
Goldman Sachs considers offloading its US banking business amid Barack Obama's dramatic clampdown on Wall Street... more

Barack Obama's bank split to hit private equity

22.01.10
Barack Obama’s plan to limit banks’ risk-taking could force the likes of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lose parts of their private equity operations... more

Goldman plays it coy to stay in Downing Street's good books

21.01.10
Goldman Sachs' decision to curb the bonuses of its senior staff in London is a signal the watching politicians have been waiting for... more

Barack Obama orders bank break-up to leave City reeling

21.01.10
Barack Obama is proposing the biggest shake-up of Wall Street since the Thirties in a move that will have massive implications for the British banking sector... more

Goldman Sachs slashes bonuses to a mere £300,000

21.01.10
Top bankers with Goldman Sachs in London are to have their bonuses cut by hundreds of thousands of pounds as a result of Alistair Darling's bank tax... more

Wall Street banks to pay out billions in bonuses

18.01.10
Wall Street banks will announce plans to pay out billions of dollars in bonuses this week, close to amounts seen before the financial crisis... more

Here's how the bankers can win back the public

14.01.10
Tomorrow the gloves come off for another round of banker bonus bashing. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have had stellar years: once again, estimates will be everywhere of how much their leading players stand to receive ... more

Capital's rent rises set to help Land Securities bounce back

11.01.10
London office rents will rise by up to 14% next year and Land Securities should be the biggest beneficiary, Goldman Sachs predicted... more

Goldman Sachs makes top-paid bankers give to charity

11.01.10
Goldman Sachs looks to force its high-flying bankers to give a higher portion of pay to charity as it moves to fend off the row over bumper bonuses... more

City Spy: Mandy’s copycat attack on Osborne

07.01.10
How intriguing that Lord Mandelson should delve into the history books to damn his erstwhile Corfu holiday chum, shadow chancellor George Osborne, yet again... more

Goldman tips ITV to get a World Cup and election lift

07.01.10
Could a suitor come knocking for ITV this year? Goldman Sachs reckons so, arguing today that the Coronation Street broadcaster will receive a big boost from the World Cup and the General Election... more

Worry over American deal adds to BA’s growing woes

22.12.09
With strikes, snow and now worries over its alliance with American Airlines, British Airways boss Willie Walsh faces a bleak Christmas and a distinctly unhappy new year... more

RBS staff expected to party for £10

18.12.09
Royal Bank of Scotland, seen by many as the centre of the banking crisis that has stricken world economies, is giving staff £10 each towards staff Christmas parties this year... more

City Spy: Ad men are worse than the bankers

15.12.09
THE New Economics Foundation report on how bankers destroy wealth (A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions) has received much press coverage... more

Goldman’s blessing for BRIC economies and commodities

03.12.09
Commodity stocks should keep rising next year, but the best is behind the financials... more

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