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Clemency Burton-Hill

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Investment

As the big banks write off billions, the dissatisfied ‘new rich’ are switching to the rising stars among the smaller independent banks, says Lorna Bourke

Features

Sun, wind and tide

Sun, wind and tide

Janice Warman detects a sea change in attitudes to alternative power generation, and looks at the technologies that are attracting investors’ attention

Dedicated follower of e-fashion

Dedicated follower of e-fashion

What downturn? The upstart online fashion retailer Asos is raking it in as celebrity-mad customers snap up clothes as worn by Sienna, Kate, Posh and Agyness, says Jane Lewis

Investor

Help? Don’t ask us

Companies hit by the downturn shouldn’t look to the highly liquid but notoriously self-interested private equity industry

Commodity of the month

Commodity of the month

Carbon trading

In this week's issue

King coal prepares for a comeback

Neil Barnett says the miners’ union that took on Margaret Thatcher and lost is now talking surprisingly good sense about Britain’s future energy security

Neil Barnett

Nice pork, pity about the pizza

Judi Bevan finds her local Lidl discount store full of bargains — but not Boden-clad middle-class shoppers

Judi Bevan

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