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How to spot a 'derailer'

16.11.09
Psychometric testing was invented to identify the positive qualities of job candidates. Now it's being used to weed out potential threats to the business, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor... more

Men are bullied in the City too, Harriet

26.10.09
Passing muster: a woman makes her way in the City but what is needed is a total overhaul ... more

Wall Street 2: Gordon Gekko is back

14.09.09
After more than two decades Oliver Stone is making a sequel to Wall Street. Our reporter agrees it’s the perfect time for the monster to be reincarnated... more

We wear brown in town to avoid 'shame' of looking like a banker

01.09.09
The financial crisis has radically altered City fashion, sounding the death knell for the pinstripe and finally making brown acceptable in town... more

Blairites beware: you cannot dump Brown and crown a new leader

05.05.09
There's no doubt about it: the situation is very bad for Gordon Brown. At the risk of forecasting that we're all doomed, Labour's prospects may not exactly be irretrievable but if I were a gambling man I wouldn't be betting a lot of cash on Labour winning the general election... more

Lords’ cigs vote sparks a worry for newsagents

01.05.09
A critical vote in the House of Lords is looming for small newsagents who are being seriously threatened by plans to prevent tobacco products going on display across Britain ... more

Sir Alan Sugar has found a new generation of B'Stards

01.05.09
Ben Clarke, the squat, brace-wearing yuppie parody of The Apprentice, is, at 22, too young to remember the film Wall Street, which was released the year he was born. But the spirit of Gordon Gekko lives on in him, as it does in almost all of this season's vile bodies... more

Gekko to echo time of crisis

30.04.09
Gordon Gekko is coming back. The slick villain of Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic Wall Street is to return in a sequel tentatively called Wall Street 2 ... more

Vultures, guns, and a shadow

05.03.09
The big beasts of American business have a knack for turning even the sourest lemons into lemonade... more

Point the finger at Hank not Bill… if you must

07.10.08
It would be harsh and largely ridiculous to blame one man for the unfolding financial crisis, but if you feel in unforgiving mood Hank Paulson will do... more

The revenge of the nerds

18.09.08
As the PM steps in to ensure the survival of HBOS, our City editor tells the story of the people at the heart of this great drama... more

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