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Gordon Brown defends City from EU supervision

18.06.09
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is mounting a defence of the City of London against plans for legally-binding EU financial supervision in the wake of the economic crisis... more

Thank our lucky stars the euro isn’t sinking us

28.04.09
One of the few consolations available in misfortune is the knowledge that the neighbours are in a worse fix than you are... more

The trouble with taxing rich: there aren’t many of them...

22.04.09
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This blip will not bring a policy change at the Bank

24.03.09
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Mandelson raises a key question

19.12.08
Lord Mandelson, the Business and Enterprise Secretary, may be known as the master of spin, but he also tends to tell the unvarnished truth.... more

Laughter and hard-headed realism from the banks' pearly queen

10.12.08
Interview: It's just as well Angela Knight laughs a lot - as chief executive of the British Bankers' Association, she needs a sense of humour ... more

Naked truth as tide goes out

25.11.08
Warren Buffett's comment about finding out who is not wearing swimming trunks when the tide goes out is extremely telling ... more

Obama spells hope for a real market bounce

05.11.08
Students of these things say you can make money in the American stock market by playing the election cycle... more

How dithering Darling failed to please bankers or the markets

07.10.08
When Chancellor Alastair Darling rose to address MPs on the financial crisis at 3.29 pm yesterday the FTSE 100 share index was a mere 200 points down... more

China trusts UK equities a lot more than we do

10.09.08
Anthony Hilton believes we should not be surprised that one of the big Chinese players now seems to own about 1% of most of the companies in the FTSE index... more

Truckers in Commons demo

02.07.08
More than 500 angry lorry drivers descended on London to protest against the Government's refusal to cut the price of fuel... more

Don't lead first-timers astray

24.04.08
Absolutely the last thing first-time buyers should be doing at the moment is rushing to buy... more

Southern discomfort is looming for Labour

26.03.08
Everyone has an easy explanation for the coming disaster for Labour in London and the wider South. The party will be hammered because it has taxed the middle classes too hard and wasted too much of their money... more

Pretty dull, Alistair. That's good

12.03.08
If ever there was a Budget that we did not want to be exciting, it was today's... more

A good idea that turned out bad

11.03.08
It is rare for a company to be destroyed by a good idea but that is effectively what happened to Friends Provident. Last year it tried to take over cash-rich Resolution Life as a way to continue to finance its own expansion in wealth management and traditional pension and insurance products... more

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