British Gas provokes fury after its parent company unveiled half-year profits of almost
£1.3 billion three weeks after it raised bills by 18 per cent
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It's a victory for City Spy. Former Bank of England rate-setter David "Danny" Blanchflower has admitted he needs to "eat a little humble pie" after attacking this column... more
Centrica says that household demand for gas and electricity during the cold snap was the reason it has beaten City expectations with a 29% rise in annual profit to a record £2.3 billion... more
Downing Street is extremely proud of its new Business Advisory Group. I don’t want to be a dreadful sceptic but I can’t help it: I feel the need to emit a large yawn... more
Market Round-up: What a fortnight it's been for Invensys shareholders. Last week the talk was all of it being a takeover candidate from rival engineers Emerson or ABB, then today it forms a potentially lucrative deal to crack into the huge Chinese train market... more
Energy giant Centrica claims the policy of developing its upstream wholesale gas business is paying off, as it posts a 65% hike in half-year operating profit to £1.6 billion... more
British Gas provoked fury when it warned customers to prepare for higher bills despite doubling profits to £585 million during 'the big freeze'... more
British Gas customers are hoping for lower household energy bills after owner Centrica reported an 80% jump in profits at its residential supply arm ... more
The return of King Coal, a kickstart for the stalled wind revolution, the bridging of the UK energy gap - that is three ways of looking at a Budget... more
Energy Analysis: These are funny old times when the first thing a chief executive does is go out of his way to tell you that profits have crashed at one of his main businesses... more
Analysis: You could be forgiven for thinking the go-ahead for the unwanted construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport is nothing but a carbon dioxide-filled smokescreen... more
While the headlines about Citigroup's latest round of bloodletting say 52,000 jobs are being axed, the US bank won't make even half that number redundant... more
Energy: British Gas group Centrica hailed a new role in the future of nuclear energy in the UK as it said it is close to taking a 25% stake in the £12.5 billion takeover of British Energy by EDF... more
British Gas parent company's announcement of a 16% hike in shareholder dividend has come just a day after customers are hit with huge price rises... more
While people are now beginning to understand how soaring fuel prices are destroying the airline industry, there is less awareness of the devastating effect it is having elsewhere and in particular how the energy sector faces a huge challenge... more
Earnings at British Gas group set to tumble by hundreds of millions as its household energy charges fail to keep pace with wholesale gas prices... more
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