More and more City types are quitting the day job for a career ‘out there’ in the world of yoga and alternative therapies. Stephanie Theobald reports... more
Fund managers have been living well on the back of very little added value for far too long. The good news is that Terry Smith will shortly be arriving onto the scene... more
In hushed tones, with a nervous look over the shoulder, New York bankers are asking themselves a question close to heresy: are there too many of us? ... more
Michael Douglas is irresistible as the reptilian Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, fresh from prison and just in time for global financial meltdown... more
As the sequel to 1987’s Wall Street launches, John Lanchester says new superfast forms of computer trading pose far more of a risk to financial markets than the likes of Gordon Gekko... more
PR Week magazine has unveiled its Power Book of the most influential public relations practitioners, based partly on the opinions of “20 senior professional journalists”, and there are a few surprises... more
City Editor's Comment: When we look back at where it all went wrong, one of those we have to blame, surely, is Michael Douglas. Not a nerdy banker coming up with some new-fangled financial instrument set to bring down his world... more
The mummy's boy might seem pretty harmless. In a world where huge gender inequalities persist, the molly-coddled man with slight Oedipal leanings appears one of the tamer threats to the feminist cause... more
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
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
The financial crisis has radically altered City fashion, sounding the death knell for the pinstripe and finally making brown acceptable in town... more
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
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
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
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
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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
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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