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Wall St Watch

Dimon is the new John Pierpont Morgan but the coming men are the wonk and the axeman

For 16 years, Jamie Dimon and Sandy Weill were the ultimate Wall Street power team, starting with a tiny finance company called Consumer Credit and building it through aggressive acquisition into Citigroup, the largest bank in the world.

Features

Reasons to be smug at WH Smith

The fortunes of two of our most familiar retailers could not be more different, says Judi Bevan. While Woolworths has gone into administration, WH Smith marches ever forward

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

At a party, I bump into one of the country’s best-known supermarket bosses.

Investor

Commodity of the month: Gold

In times of great economic uncertainty, gold has historically outperformed its rivals.

What to give the kids for Christmas

No, don’t look in your stocking, I’ve bought you an ISA. With austerity looming, what better to buy your children than a safer financial future?

City Life

Corruption is the hot election issue, but the biggest fish are yet to be fried

Eric Ellis

Lessons for life from the Crash of ’73

David Young, who later served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet and as chairman of Cable & Wireless, recalls his struggle for survival as an up-and-coming entrepreneur

David Young

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