One day, perhaps soon than we think, owning billions of pounds' worth of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland may not seem like the questionable investment it does at the moment... more
Lloyd's of London insurer Amlin crashed to a first-half loss of £192.3 million after making record payouts for catastrophe insurance including the New Zealand earthquake and Japanese tsunami... more
Insurance group Hardy estimates it would take a hit of up to £12 million from the Japanese earthquake, saying there were signs that the quake and other disasters were pushing up insurance prices... more
Lloyd's of London insurance firm Amlin becomes the latest to put out an estimate of its Japanese earthquake hit, saying the disaster would result in claims of up to £150 million... more
City Comment: So badly have the banks played their hand in showing absolutely no contrition, they have made it impossible for politicians to cut them any slack
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Market Round-up: Smith & Nephew shoots to the top of the FTSE 100 winners’ board as the artificial hip-maker shows it is stealing market share from its rivals... more
Market round-up: Rumours of interest in Lookers are revived, with the City’s big mouths claiming that a private equity firm is mulling a bid worth 95p per share... more
Market Round-up: Shares in FTSE 100 energy group International Power shoot up 8.6p to 309p on speculation it has restarted discussions with power giant GDF Suez about a deal... more
Lloyd’s of London insurer Amlin smashes expectations with profit up four-fold following a recovery in investment markets and a benign hurricane season last year... more
Shares rallied from opening falls after several billion pounds' worth of takeovers were dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites ... more
Shares were on the slide again today despite several billion pounds' worth of takeovers being dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites... more
Up to half a dozen blue-chip companies face losing their place as constituents of the Footsie 100 index when the regular quarterly review is undertaken later this week... more
Investors are missing a trick because they have not factored in the huge business opportunity for those insurance companies still standing brought about by the near-collapse of American Insurance Group... more
Insurance: Insurers will have to pay out many billions of pounds more than expected for claims from the last hurricane season, two leading players warned... more
Insurance: Profits halved at Lloyd's of London in the first six months of the year, and chief executive Richard Ward warned that the financial storm is only going to get more choppy... more
Brit insurance, sponsor of the Oval cricket ground, is the latest UK company to look at moving its headquarters from the UK to a more favourable tax regime... more
CBI boss Richard Lambert said a few weeks ago that one reason companies seemed quite optimistic in surveys might be that smaller businesses tend to finance themselves from retained profits rather than bank loans, and have therefore been insulated so far from the general cutback on credit.... more
The worry among the stronger investment banks in New York is that the longer they depend on the Fed for funds, the more likely it is that they will be hit by new, tougher capital requirements... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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