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Murdoch has lost his magic touch at News Corp

07.10.09
Plan to charge for online news is raising doubts about his leadership ... more

Dave disappoints at Blenheim Palace

21.09.09
Some of the biggest names in corporate life were at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on Friday night for the closing black-tie banquet at the annual Oxford Analytica conference, a big pow-wow on global politics and business... more

Bigger banks should have to pay higher tax

14.09.09
Big banks should be taxed more than smaller ones because they pose a greater risk to the entire financial system, a study by the Bank for International Settlements said... more

Boycott of Whole Foods after boss blasts Barack Obama

20.08.09
Whole Foods is being boycotted by shoppers after the boss of the health stores came out against Barack Obama’s healthcare plan... more

City Spy: New MPC man is ready to rumble

16.07.09
Adam Posen, who joins the monetary policy committee at the Bank of England in September, admits he is not yet up to speed on the state of the UK economy and promises to put this right ... more

City Spy: In the business of making excuses

01.07.09
Lord Mandelson claims he was forced to delay the sale of a stake in Royal Mail because there are more pressing matters to deal with. Funny...... more

City Spy: Ready to step into Margaret’s shoes

15.06.09
As producers of The Apprentice look to find a replacement for Margaret Mountford, City Spy wonders what are the chances of the successful candidate coming from that close band of business talent gathered under the umbrella of celebrity agent Speak Out!? ... more

Tony in the Footsie, and in the money

11.06.09
Former mercenary Tony Buckingham, whose exotic connections with the notorious Executive Outcomes and Sandline organisations and as a former associate of jailed Etonian Simon Mann, have in the past excited much comment, is set to become a FTSE 100 boss ... more

RBS among victims of broker coup on Wall St

11.06.09
Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan and Bank of America are among Wall Street banks who are reported to have been outwitted by a small broking firm in the subprime mortgage market... more

Wall Street banks count the cost of broker coup

11.06.09
Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan and Bank of America are among Wall Street banks who are reported to have been outwitted by a small broking firm in the sub-prime mortgage market ... more

AIG chiefs pressed to return bonuses

20.03.09
Executives at the Mayfair office of bust insurer AIG are under rising pressure to hand back bonuses... more

It's not looking Fresh & Easy for Tesco in US

03.03.09
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Now City of London Corp gets political

09.02.09
So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more

Vodka hangover for Waterford Wedgewood

06.01.09
The demise of Waterford Wedgwood is a sorry tale. There is red ink everywhere, the Stoke pottery operation is pointing fingers at the Irish glassmaking side, while there's much brouhaha about moving the whole manufacturing process to Indonesia... more

That's Capital - village pubs make a comeback

02.12.08
Capital Pub Company pubs are a class above. Perhaps they will show others the way back to the future... more

Blowing cold in the Lords on windpower

26.11.08
Building thousands of turbines to meet Britain's renewable energy commitments by 2020 is likely to be a disaster... more

US banks owe execs £24 billion in bonuses

31.10.08
Banking: Banks in the US, receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts, owe their executives more than $40 billion in pay and bonus deals racked up before they hit the rocks... more

WSJ’s worthy reporting of financial meltdown lacks punch or panache

08.10.08
There is, in case you haven’t noticed it, a global financial crisis going on. So you might expect the largest-selling business newspaper in the Western world, the Wall Street Journal, to be reflecting that sorry state of affairs... more

Views matter as much as news for business audience in digital age

17.09.08
The suggestion that the world was about to end because of the CERN atom-smashing experiment was nothing more than a laughable fantasy. But the turmoil that is lashing the Western world’s financial system is an increasingly uncomfortable reality.... more

More US banks on danger list

26.08.08
US regulators are said to have raised the number of banks on "probation" because of increasing financial problems... more

Not so sweet on Candys taking over Hyde Park

14.08.08
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Iraqi lawmakers stall on oil law

13.08.08
Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Exxon Mobil had all hoped to sign short-term service contracts by the end of June... more

Beeb pays out bonuses first – before bad

31.07.08
BBC bosses have come in for an official reprimand for arranging a paid sponsorship deal with Robinsons fruit juice... more

Darling offers too little, too late to stop exodus

28.07.08
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Yes, home delivery can boost sales - but at a price

23.07.08
Are the days of newsagents delivering the paper to your door numbered?... more

Lehman's losses '£1bn for last 3 months'

09.06.08
Loss is far more than $300 million predicted by analysts, raising questions about scale of problems at the bank... more

Journal staff move from Wall Street to midtown

23.05.08
The Wall Street Journal will soon be a "midtown journal", as Rupert Murdoch plans to move the lofty paper from the financial district to join his tabloid New York Post on Sixth Avenue... more

GE may spin off its washers arm

15.05.08
General Electric may sell off its large-appliances division, which makes fridges and washing machines, after more than 100 years in the industry... more

It should be game over for the City's bonus boys

22.04.08
As the Government hands over £50bn to prop up the mortgage market, the banks need to learn their lessons and stop putting the economy at risk ... more

Madonna quits Warner Bros for £60m

11.10.07
Madonna is leaving her long-time label Warner Bros for a £60 million deal with a concert promoter.... more

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