They say you can spot a stock-market bubble when you start getting share tips from your waiter. So what does it mean when you are getting predictions of financial Armageddon from your taxi driver?... more
Has Ian Meakins spent the past week knees knocking, eyes scrunched, peeping between his fingers, in dread of the public fury against his decision to take Wolseley to Switzerland to save tax?... more
Share prices on both sides of the Pond are trading at their best levels in more than a year, so stock market investors could be forgiven for thinking the worst of the global recession and banking meltdown is over ... more
Troubled times ahead for British Land, down 4.8p at 467.6p, after main board director and head of retail Andrew Jones and two of his top executives left as exclusively revealed in last week’s Evening Standard ... more
The annual Forbes list of the richest people in the world is published and it is treated as gospel. Yet closer examination reveals all manner of imperfections... more
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, the optimists were still hoping that the credit crunch, like the First World War, might be over by Christmas. Now things look very different.... more
Stobart Group, famed for its Eddie Stobart green lorries with girls’ names, is clearly delighted to have bought Southend Airport for
£21 million... more
Credit crunch: Bank of America’s $50 billion (£28 billion) early-morning takeover of Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch creates the world’s biggest financial services group... more
Credit crunch: Share prices have tumbled around the world as Wall Street slashed the value of Lehman Brothers, one of its oldest investment banks, for the second time this week... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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