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The East powers ahead while America stumbles

Ian Cowie

13th February, 2008

Ian Cowie asks whether high-growth economies such as China’s are a safer bet than those of the debt-laden West

The timeless beauty of a Stradivari

Joanna Pitman

13th February, 2008

Joanna Pitman says owning a valuable Italian violin is doubly rewarding if it is played by a great musician

Congratulations on your prosperity, but go cautiously in the Year of the Rat

Steven Vines

13th February, 2008

Steven Vines on the City Life

Farewell to Scottish & Newcastle ...

Simon Nixon

6th February, 2008

... And good riddance to the beerage.

The entrepreneur’s art: buying, building, selling

Judi Bevan

6th February, 2008

Judi Bevan meets David Young, who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet before chairing Cable & Wireless and creating his own successful private-equity business

Scrabbling to save the monolines

Martin Vander Weyer

5th February, 2008

Martin Vander Weyer on the next thing to cause heartburn in the financial markets.

Farewell to Asia’s greatest kleptocrat

Eric Ellis

30th January, 2008

Eric Ellis says the death of Indonesia’s former dictator may spur attempts to recover the loot accumulated by his family

The disappearing bezzle

Christopher Fildes

30th January, 2008

The societe generale scandal

Why it’s raining dividends in Wales

Neil Collins

30th January, 2008

Neil Collins meets Nigel Annett, who runs Welsh Water — a unique utility company which operates without shareholders and distributes profits back to its customers

WEB EXCLUSIVE: There's trouble brewing

Martin Vander Weyer

29th January, 2008

Oh Boy. If you thought the Société Générale saga was beyond belief – today we learn that Eurex, the derivatives exchange, had been trying to warn the French bank for two months about Jerome Kerviel’s extraordinarily large trading volumes – then I invite you to contemplate the £274 million loss clocked up on hedging transactions by Mitchell & Butlers.

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

23rd January, 2008

Network Rail’s performance is poor enough to test an archbishop’s patience, writes Martin Vander Weyer

A paragon of Britishness reinvented by Germans

Matthew Lynn

23rd January, 2008

Matthew Lynn visits the Bentley factory in Crewe — where Spitfires were once built — and discovers how Volkswagen’s engineers and marketing men have revived the classic marque

Coming soon to a screen near you

Cosmo Lush

23rd January, 2008

Cosmo Lush reports from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

The military millionaires who control Pakistan Inc

Elliot Wilson

16th January, 2008

Elliot Wilson says Pakistan’s economy is dominated by a ruthless business conglomerate that owns everything from factories and bakeries to farmland and golf courses: the army

The FSA is not fit for purpose

Richard Northedge

16th January, 2008

Richard Northedge questions the Treasury's magnanimous treatment of the Financial Services Authority

Rock On

Martin Vander Weyer

16th January, 2008

Martin Vander Weyer reflects on yesterday's extraordinary general meeting of Northern Rock shareholders and assesses what hopes the shareholders should place in their board.

Life after Wills: barely a whiff of smoke in the cosmopolitan gateway to the west

Tim Heald

9th January, 2008

City Life: Bristol

The economy in 2008: chilly showers but no hailstorms

Allister Heath

9th January, 2008

Allister Heath forecasts that Britain’s economy will suffer less than America’s, but that homeowners and consumers will still feel the pain — and blame it on Gordon Brown

Are markets becoming part of the problem?

Martin Vander Weyer

9th January, 2008

Martin Vander Weyer wonders whether 'City spivs' are responsible for the current economic turbulence.

Is there an alternative to nationalising Northern Rock?

Martin Vander Weyer

18th December, 2007

Tuesday’s announcement that the Treasury will guarantee lending from other banks to Northern Rock is last ditch bid to avoid having to nationalise the bank. But in truth, most of the best options were closed off by inaction back in September.