The Evening Standard has been honoured for the quality of its comment by Editorial Intelligence, the latest of a string of prestigious awards for the paper... more
Commentary: August is the main holiday month for the western world and the way markets work means that though there is less activity, it is likely to cause proportionately greater movement in prices... more
Even before today's meeting of eurozone finance ministers, more intimate talks between the two players who matter most, the German Chancellor and the French president, resulted in an agreement of sorts about one aspect of the crisis... more
City Comment: America's latest round of quantitative easing could set off a bout of inflation in China at quite the wrong moment for that economy... more
City Comment: It matters not one jot whether Tidjane Thiam takes his Société Générale job or not - Pru shareholders just need to focus on the insurer's £23 billion Asian AIG deal... more
Banks face a timebomb of debt defaults in the commercial property market, as the value of real estate in default doubled to £30 billion in the first six months of the year... more
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, may not have had a particularly good war during the credit crunch but he may yet win the peace... more
There were real doubts among Lloyds TSB shareholders at the time of its merger with HBOS last year, a union to which the Prime Minister played marriage broker... more
THERE could not have been a starker contrast to the bleak mood elsewhere in London last night than at the Sotheby's auction where a selection of works by the artist Damien Hirst was sold for £70 million... more
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