Struggling set-top boxes maker Pace wallop investors with its third profit warning of the year as severe flooding hit a major supplier in Thailand... more
Charles Goodhart, when he was an economist at the Bank or England, observed that once you make something important enough to measure, it will start to misbehave... more
BSkyB tries to put the phone-hacking scandal involving James Murdoch behind it but admits the pay-TV giant is feeling the consumer squeeze as the number of new subscribers falls... more
BSkyB shareholders come under mounting pressure to remove James Murdoch as chairman as the board prepares to meet next Thursday for the first time since the phone-hacking scandal blew up... more
Here is an unusual approach to playing the top end of the London property market from agent Knight Frank, which is offering tips on how to spot the next Mayfair, Belgravia or Knightsbridge... more
As the Bribery Act has been kicked back to the department of justice for review - it was due to come into force next month - a new problem with the legislation has reared its head. One that might prove particularly embarrassing, given the prestige attached to the event in question... more
BSkyB shares jump to a nine-year high of 817.5p as top shareholder Crispin Odey demands at least 950p for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to buy the pay-TV giant... more
BSkyB shows just why News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch wants to take full control of the pay-TV giant as it unveils a 25% surge in operating profits to £255 million... more
One of the features of the letter in protest at the Government’s proposed NI increase is the prevalence of retailers - as, City Spy hears, Next's Simon Wolfson was the orchestrator... more
How much longer can property developers Candy & Candy, continue to disrupt eastbound traffic in Knightsbridge with their One Hyde Park development? ... more
Comment: Angry football fans are not noted for their politeness, and if the Glazer family could sell Manchester United for £1 billion right now they would be foolish not to. A tall order for fans - but don't forget some of them are very, very rich... more
City Comment: Published today is this year’s “Banking banana skins” — an annual survey of things likely to trip up unwary bankers. Inevitably political interference gets a big space, the industry thinks of little else... more
Morrisons and ITV have new chief execs — Dalton Philips and Adam Crozier. The common connection is “Big Al” — Allan Leighton, Philips’s boss at Loblaw and Crozier’s former chief at the Royal Mail... more
Archie Norman was the youngest-ever partner at management consultants McKinsey before becoming one of the three founders of Woolworths and B&Q retailer Kingfisher in the 1980s... more
The axing of tens of thousands of postal workers, the closure of thousands of post offices and the end of many morning deliveries has seen profits double to £321 million at Royal Mail... more
Occasionally, a story comes along that obliges you to do a double-take. One such was the report yesterday that Sir Alan Sugar is being lined up by Labour insiders for the London mayoral race in four years' time... 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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