Business

Will the property market cause the next savings disaster?

11th December, 2007

‘How’s business?’ I asked the Mr Big of commercial property in a city somewhere north of Watford Gap last week. I won’t say which city, because this Mr Big is so big there – his logo is on office block after office block – that he would be instantly identifiable.

The last Victorian bastion

5th December, 2007

Matthew Lynn says London’s last 19th-century merchant bank, Close Brothers, is under threat of takeover by one of the modern breed of aggressive City traders, Andy Stewart

Economics made easy

5th December, 2007

The world economy can now cope with $100 a barrel oil

India: wine

5th December, 2007

Richard Orange meets Rajeev Samant, an entrepreneur whose products please the palates of new-rich India

Time gentlemen please

4th December, 2007

Does anyone actually resign anymore? Nowadays a resignation is regarded not as a final act but as a temporary career break and that’s bad for business.

Interview: Vince Cable

28th November, 2007

Simon Nixon talks to Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman and acting leader, who the City admires as one of the few politicians to talk sense about Northern Rock

Hard times ahead

28th November, 2007

The road ahead is a rocky one

The next web revolution

28th November, 2007

Edie G. Lush explains why we’re rarely asked to pay for online news and entertainment these days

Any other business

28th November, 2007

Do falling beer sales indicate a recession is on the way?

Northern Rock's blonde knight?

28th November, 2007

Sir Richard Branson's critics dismiss him as a PR hound but Branson is a lot more than just a flashy front-man. Martin Vander Weyer assesses his business record.

Shock and ore: the fight for the world’s mineral riches

21st November, 2007

Matthew Lynn says the potential merger of mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton is a challenge by the old economic world order to the growing power of China

Markets are emotional, not cerebral

21st November, 2007

Is a bear market coming?

Half a million rooms to choose from

21st November, 2007

Richard Northedge meets Andrew Cosslett — whose company, InterContinental, opens a new hotel every day

How Prince lost the plot — and why the next episode may be Sachs and the Citi

21st November, 2007

The word from Wall Street

Don't bank on it

20th November, 2007

With Alistair Darling coming under increasing pressure after the loss of the personal data of twenty-five million people by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Martin Vander Weyer reviews how Darling and Gordon Brown have also moved into the firing line in the whole Northern Rock debacle. They along with its employees and shareholders now have the most to fear from the crisis.

The debt crisis continues

14th November, 2007

Jonathan Ruffer argues that investors and depositors who were gulled into thinking mortgage-backed paper was riskless will not readily return to fund another boom

Poor Darling

14th November, 2007

Investment: medals

14th November, 2007

Any other business

14th November, 2007

Celebrating St Pancras Day

14th November, 2007