21 September 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY NEVER KNOWINGLY OVERPROFITEERING: It’s shaping up to be a very mixed summer of results from retail, with fashion chains, department chains, and food retailing all seeing big variations in performance. Latest results to surprise the market are from that British favourite John Lewis Partnership, (including Waitrose,… Continue reading Issue 121:2017 09 21:Week in Brief Financial
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Issue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief Financial
27 July 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BANKING THE CASH: As had been widely predicted, Metro Bank, one of the leading and certainly most visible of the so-called challenger banks – the regiment of small banks that sprang up after the big bank failures and retrenchments following the 2008 recession – has announced… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
20 July 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ITS BENEATH YOU: Alternative energy continues to emerge from all sides. The latest challenger to oil is geothermal energy – gathering heat from hot rocks deep below the earth’s crust by pumping water through them for conversion into steam to power turbines, or to use… Continue reading Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT VOTE: The Government is to appeal against the High Court’s ruling that giving notice to leave the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon requires an Act of Parliament. The Attorney General’s argument that, because the action was under an international treaty it could… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue71:2016 09 15:Week in Brief Financial
15 September 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City BOLD BRANDING: “Barings is an iconic brand which has been around a very long time…” says Tom Finke, chief executive of what on Monday this week became Barings; a new conglomeration of four brands owned by the Boston headquartered life insurance company MassMutual. Mass Mutual… Continue reading Issue71:2016 09 15:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK
28 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT: At a meeting with Mrs May, President Hollande indicated that France will keep to the Le Touquet agreement under which British border police operate in Calais. While stressing that ties between the two nations would remain strong, he also said that Britain would have to… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK
