The row over a European circulation deal at the Wall Street Journal will give further ammunition to News Corp shareholders who want owner Rupert Murdoch to quit newspapers, City analysts have said... more
In the air: It's a landmark decision for the magazine industry: BSkyB is axing Britain's biggest circulation title, Sky Magazine, which had a peak distribution of nearly eight million a month as recently as two years ago... more
"Seeing a Rupert Murdoch publication whine about the meanness and editorial excess of other media companies is almost indescribably hilarious..."... more
Executives at UBS are concerned that pending bonuses will be inadequate to retain top talent at the Swiss bank, one of the hardest hit during the financial crisis... more
David “Danny” Blanchflower launches a scathing attack on new Chancellor George Osborne and Lib-Con plans to start cutting the deficit this year.... more
Nick Clegg surely did himself no favours in the final TV debate by referring to the “chancellors and vice-chancellors” of the three main parties being involved in post-election talks on the economy... more
Among the acres of adulation about David Gold and David Sullivan “rescuing” West Ham United, there has been little mention of the means by which they gained their fortunes... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
General Electric may sell off its large-appliances division, which makes fridges and washing machines, after more than 100 years in the industry... 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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