Two leading BSkyB shareholders give qualified support for James Murdoch as chairman following calls from a top US investor that he should quit over the phone-hacking saga... more
Phew! That was the reaction of International Power's investors as a climate change plan Down Under appeared benign for the electricity generator... more
BSkyB shares hit a fresh nine-year high of 843p as traders expect News Corp to get the green light for its takeover next week and begin final negotiations on price with shareholders... more
When I arrive for lunch with Crispin Odey at Corrigan's in Mayfair, he is running late and I'm shown to a prime table. The staff bustle around, checking I'm OK - nothing is too much for them. Finally, he arrives, and they go into overdrive... 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
Market Round-up: Traders see the news on the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper as evidence sovereign wealth funds are lacing up their boots ready to march into London real estate... more
Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s greatest champions of the Dispossessed, gave a powerful blessing to the Standard’s campaign to help the poorest in London... more
Hedge fund star Crispin Odey agrees to plunge another £19 million into rental car group Avis Europe, taking up his full 12.6% allocation of the firm’s £151 million rights issue... more
At least one veteran stock market player reckons he’s managed to make a good living from the City by taking note of what Merrill Lynch is recommending, and bet heavily the other way... more
Hedge fund boss Crispin Odey is to pay himself £30.4million after his firm cashed in betting on the near-collapse of the UK banking system last year... more
Organic food has lost some of its healthy lustre in the recession. After a boom in the past decade, consumers have suddenly stopped spending so freely on ethically sourced, high-quality ingredients ... more
Crispin Odey, the highly rated London hedge fund manager, believes that the recent rally in shares across the globe could herald the start of a new bull market... more
Shares on the London stock market briefly dropped back below the important 4000 resistance level today for the first time since October, as the short-sellers appeared to regain the upper hand in Legal & General.... more
Not everyone lost money on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley. The short-sellers who have been blamed for the takeover of HBOS have made fortunes betting on B&B's falling share price... more
It's been a few days of differing fortunes for those investors who took up shares in the massive placings launched last week by Barclays and its rival Lloyds TSB... more
My first reaction on reading of the suggestion by the Policy Exchange think tank that the Government should in effect abandon the North and concentrate on developing London, Oxford and Cambridge, was to laugh. ... more
Vince Power used to be called The Godfather of Gigs, and his enemy was boring music. As founder of Mean Fiddler, he promoted The Pogues and Billy Bragg back when no one else would, going on to build a £60 million empire that he has since sold.... 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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