22 June 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BAD WEEK BEHIND THE COUNTERS: Maybe the bankers are going to be regulated less (see our article on the US this week) but Barclays, the 300 year old UK domiciled bank, must be wishing it had thrown itself on the regulatory mercies of the Bank… Continue reading Issue 110: 2017 0-6 22: Week In Brief Financial
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Issue 109:2017 06 15:Week in Brief Financial
15 June 2017 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY RIDING HIGH: As the traditional demarcations in the motoring industry fall away, another crossover. JLR, owned by Tata, the Indian conglomerate, which makes Land Rover and Jaguar cars in the UK, is investing a trial US$25m into Lyft, an American rival to Uber. Market wisdom… Continue reading Issue 109:2017 06 15:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 108:2017 06 08:Week in Brief Financial
8 June 2017 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY FASHIONING A NEW FUTURE: These are difficult times for fashion retailers, especially those dealing with the mass market. The old favourites are slowly slipping away – BHS, British Home Stores as was, the staple of many high streets for much of the second half of… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Week In Brief Financial
01 June 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY EDGING TOWARDS THE ABYSS: It is nearly ten years since the beginning of the banking crisis which has so changed the financial landscape of the western world, with what almost became a complete banking failure – indeed, would have done so had it not been… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Week In Brief Financial
Issue 106:2017 05 25 ;Week in Brief Financial
25 May 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOM TO LET: 50 CENTS: The theme of the year when it comes to housing is homes to rent. The rising affordability of owning homes is putting ownership out of the question for the young, but renting is filling the gap for many. The liberalisation… Continue reading Issue 106:2017 05 25 ;Week in Brief Financial
Issue 105:2017 05 18:Week in Brief financial
18 May 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY PENSIONED OFF: How can you run a profitable business and still go bust? Having an underfunded pension scheme is always a reliable way, as several British businesses have recently found out when trying to reorganise themselves. Latest is Tata Steel, the UK arm of the… Continue reading Issue 105:2017 05 18:Week in Brief financial
Issue 103: 2017 05 04: Week in Brief: Financial
04 May 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY PUTTING A ROOF ON IT: Taylor Wimpey drew a firm line under the recent controversy regarding ground rents on houses that they have sold leasehold. The leases contain, in the normal way, annual ground rents payable by the long leaseholder to the freeholder. Traditionally this… Continue reading Issue 103: 2017 05 04: Week in Brief: Financial
Issue 102:2017 04 27:Week in Brief Business
27 April 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ENGINEERING WOOD: AMEC Foster Wheeler is one of those specialist engineering conglomerates which the fall of the oil price, and the consequent cost cutting in that sector, has knocked sideways. The weakness in the oil market caught AMEC at exactly the wrong moment – it… Continue reading Issue 102:2017 04 27:Week in Brief Business
Issue 101:2017 04 20:Week in Brief Financial
20 April 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY GOLD SORES: You know that the problems are real when Goldman Sachs misses its own performance forecasts; especially when they and fellow investment banks have been making positive noises, albeit unofficial, about the beneficial effects on their businesses of political change in the USA and Britain… Continue reading Issue 101:2017 04 20:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 100:2017 04 13:Week in Brief Financial
13 April 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY TRY AGAIN: The troubles of leading house builder Bovis may be coming to an end with the help of fellow residential builder Galliford Try – but not quite in the way that Bovis had in mind. Bovis found both house sales and its share price in a… Continue reading Issue 100:2017 04 13:Week in Brief Financial
Issue99:2017 04 03: Week in Brief financial
06 April 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BRAKES ON AT CARR’S: Carr’s is an unusual conglomerate, combining a traditional but sizeable business of selling agricultural supplies in the UK, New Zealand, and the USA, with a technical engineering business which is strong in nuclear. The idea is that they are sufficiently diverse… Continue reading Issue99:2017 04 03: Week in Brief financial
Issue98:2017 03 30:Week in Brief Financial
30 March 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOTHING HELPS: When it was first announced, the proposed Tesco purchase of Booker was hailed as the final mark of the supermarket giant’s recovery from the accounting scandal and poor performance which have damaged its reputation over the previous four years and seemed to confirm… Continue reading Issue98:2017 03 30:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
23 March 2017 Week in Brief: Business and the City WITHOUT A PADDLE: Thames Water have been fined £20 million for pumping almost one and a half billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames in 2013 and 2014, killing birds, fish and dragonflies and polluting the river, normally an attractive feature of Henley… Continue reading Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
