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King Kong: Why Hong Kong is booming again

06.11.09

Hong Kong used to be the place to go to seek your fortune when you'd failed in the City. But now only the most successful Londoners can afford to brave the high-risk, high-rise island... more

Impose a deadline on tax losses

05.11.09

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City traders overjoyed by Marks & Sparkling profits

04.11.09

They threw the switch on the Christmas lights in London�s Regent Street and Oxford Street last night, and, as if on cue, shares of some our major retailers lit up this morning ... more

Goldman bans parties during festive season

03.11.09

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Mervyn�s Premier kicking for banks

22.10.09

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King certainly grabbed the limelight with his Churchillian language about the banking crisis and bailout... more

Goldman Sachs goes cold on LSE

21.10.09

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

A safe pair of hands but the future is still rocky for Life

20.10.09

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Forget big bonuses - we need to stop the City gravy train

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 sought me out. "Your pal was superb." Then he frowned. "But we can't hire him"... more

We need the money more than the bankers do

15.10.09

The latest outrageous splurge of bonuses for bankers shows that politics in this country has got to change... more

Yes, they're here to make money but must they charge so much?

14.10.09

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

Mergers remain in midst of slump

02.10.09

The world economy may be in recovery, but the takeover activity that so excites investment bankers is still in the midst of a slump... more

Miners are in a hole as price of gold loses its lustre with fall below $1000

21.09.09

Mining shares were in disarray after the price of gold dipped back below the $1000-an-ounce level for the first time in almost a week after the International Monetary Fund threatened to sell 10% of its reserves. ... more

City Spy: Goldman is still under the cosh

31.07.09

A further addition to the plethora of savage anti-Goldman Sachs articles in America � quite possibly the best of the bunch � comes from US writer Michael Lewis on Bloomberg.com ... more

Alistair Darling wants watchdogs to halt return of City bonuses

15.07.09

Chancellor urges financial watchdogs to halt return to bonus bonanza culture in the City and calls on the FSA to be ready to act ... more

Goldman to run RSA�s �1.9bn pension funds

14.07.09

Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) has outsourced the running of �1.9 billion of pension funds to Goldman Sachs in one of the biggest deals of its kind ... more

Banking system probe long overdue

23.06.09

The public is going to find it very hard to understand how the banking system can be on its knees one minute and earning record profits the next... more

�5 billion gilts sale to test confidence in UK economy

15.06.09

The British Government has hired Barclays, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and RBS to sell a bumper �5 billion of gilts this week... more

Goldman paves the way for return of mega bonuses

14.04.09

Banks are poised to start handing out multi-million-pound bonuses despite claims that excessive pay helped to fuel the global financial crisis... more

�60m right rump bonus for bankers

06.04.09

City bankers from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Cazenove were celebrating a �60 million-plus windfall after they successfully completed a �12.9 billion rights issue for HSBC, Europe's biggest bank... more

Broker says it's time for a sale of the supermarkets

01.04.09

The UK's well-run supermarket chains have also often been admired for their defensive qualities in times of trouble. But perhaps not for much longer.... more

Now Sir Fred enters hall of shame in US

25.02.09

Well done, Fred the Shred. Even the Americans are holding you responsible for the credit crunch.... more

Banks fear $8bn loss on chemicals firm

09.02.09

Fears were growing that bank losses on the collapse of chemicals firm Lyondell Basell could double to $8 billion... more

Shares applaud the rescue plan

14.10.08

Stocks around the world rallied again as the latest bank rescue plan was unveiled by the US government... more

How Hank got his great rescue plan so wrong

30.09.08

The rescue package now needs a rescue package and Uncle Hank has only himself to blame... more

City bonuses to shrink by half

26.09.08

Top City bankers were nervously comparing notes amid fears that year-end bonuses are set to shrink by at least half... more

US could cap big bonuses to bankers working on bail-out

25.09.08

Rising anger about bankers' pay could force US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to agree to tough new rules if he is to push through his mooted $700 billion Wall Street bail-out... more

Era ends as Wall Street big two lose their status

22.09.08

Banking: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have abandoned their cherished status as investment banks in a shock move that marks the end of an era on Wall Street... more

Banks pay up on 'worthless' security sales

22.08.08

Investment banks Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have caved into pressure from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo to settle the dispute over their sale of auction rate securities... more

A new opportunity for London

18.06.08

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Crisis casualties, but hope too

22.02.08

In any market meltdown, a huge amount of otherwise idle time and energy is spent trying to find the stuffee - market code for the poor mutt who has been stuffed with paper and left holding it when the music stopped... more