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Sexuality and the City: just be honest and open

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:54:46 GMT

I felt a great deal of sadness for Lord Browne after reading his recent description of how tough it is to be openly gay in the City. I came out at a young age and have never felt any pressure to conform to some imaginary City code of straight conduct

BP shares down in profits and oil price slump

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:37:56 GMT

Oil giant BP reports a 45 per cent slump in profits and predicted a �slow and gradual� economic recovery

City Spy: Take me back for �1 a year, Greg Hutchings pleads to Lupus

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:07:34 GMT

Forget Mitchells & Butlers � another battle royal is raging in the City that shows no sign of abating despite having gone on for several months

Tate Gallery abandons hedge funds after losing �1m

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:28:26 GMT

The trustees of the Tate Gallery have pulled out of hedge funds after losing �1 million on investments

A degree is now worth just �2,500 a year (before debt is paid)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:02:54 GMT

Value of a degree has plummeted as more graduates enter the job market, official figures suggest

Labour and Tories 'are conspiring over rises to university tuition fees '

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:43:57 GMT

Latest: Labour and the Tories accused of a 'conspiracy' to increase tuition fees as ministers order full-scale review of student finance

There�s more to business than money

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:13:21 GMT

Tory MEP and the Kazakhs

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:52:23 GMT

What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there...

Work on extension 'will start next year'

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:37 GMT

The Tate intends to start building its giant Bankside Gallery extension next year

BP sells wind farms for �57m

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:40 GMT

BP has taken another step to reduce its investment in wind farms outside the US, with the sale of Indian energy windmills for $95 million

$1bn drive to slash costs as oil price hits BP�s profits

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:47:26 GMT

BP reported a 53% dive in profits as the global recession dragged down energy prices and demand for oil

Ericsson boss Svanberg is BP's choice for chairman

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:13:52 GMT

BP's three-year search for a new chairman came to an end as the British oil giant appointed the Swedish boss of Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg

A new name in the frame as BP struggles to fill the top job

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:03:39 GMT

Investors might begin to wonder whether it has become the most poisoned chalice in British business: the chairmanship of BP, the job that apparently nobody wants

Old wounds reopened as US sues BP for Alaskan oil spills

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:48:48 GMT

BP is being sued by the US Government over the spillage of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil on the Alaskan arctic tundra in 2006

It's BP's mission to fall in love with petroleum again

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:50:46 GMT

Danger that lurks in the turnaround plan for RBS

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:49:45 GMT

Why the US protecting its own spells global danger

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:39:54 GMT

I don't hold any brief for Sir Ronnie Cohen but I well recall sitting with the private-equity veteran and listening to his warning that unless something was done about the widening gap between rich and poor, riots would result

How Mervyn learned to pitch it right...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:40:32 GMT

Mervyn King once harboured ambitions to be the next Jim Laker: �I was taught to bowl � slow left arm � at Old Town primary school by the headmaster ..."

Environment

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:02:50 GMT

Once an area ignored by politicians, it is now a key issue with battles such as airport expansion taking centre stage

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:03:24 GMT

THE return of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet for the third time � as Business Secretary � shows rehabilitation is always possible, however unlikely.

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:03:24 GMT

It�s a bit late for broker to stop coverage of B&B

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:48:01 GMT

Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands

A retreat from Moscow that may not ease the problems

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:41:21 GMT

When crude was hitting its record highs of more than $147 a barrel in early July, BP�s shares were in sharp decline, a fall that has been extended in recent weeks to wipe around �30 billion off the value of Britain�s largest company

Deal that highlights oil change

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:37 GMT

The oil sector came to life this week and it would be no surprise at all to see oil back down below $100 by September

Lord Browne firm�s buy-up from Hunting

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Ex-BP chief�s private-equity firm bought �626 million of assets from the London-listed energy services group

Farewell Prudence, he never even loved you

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:50:12 GMT

Buccaneer building a new Hambro dynasty in the Far East

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:53:53 GMT

Peter Hambro carries his family's dynastic urge into new territory with a mix of ready wit and Old Etonian charm

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:12:07 GMT

Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century

Soaring oil spells real trauma

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:31:30 GMT

Eighteen months ago when the guys at Goldman Sachs were forecasting that the price of oil would go to $100, it was widely dismissed as nothing more than the bank talking its book

Merger plan of the miners is a big deal with a huge downside

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:39:24 GMT

What a strange world we live in when every twist and turn in the sale of a minor former building society in Newcastle commands the attention of politicians, bankers and the media, but elsewhere a proposal that will create a monopolistic giant bigger than BP or Shell sails serenely forward with almost no one paying attention