Business Comment
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Mining industry is alive with deal-making. As BHP sizes up Rio, we ain't seen nothing yet
Published: 10 May 2007
Hamish McRae: The UK is set to lead the way today with action to tackle global financial warming
Published: 10 May 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: BAE needs to clear the air over Saudi arms deal. Future will be clouded until it does
Published: 09 May 2007
Stephen King: Europe would be Scotland's best bet
Published: 08 May 2007
Small Talk: Investors seek clarity as Bittleston aims to fight off software rebels
Published: 08 May 2007
The fur is flying at Clarity Commerce Solutions, an AIM-listed retail software company, with management fighting off a putsch by rebel shareholders led by Bob Morton, a former chairman. The showdown will take place at an EGM on 31 May, with the activists already claiming support from more than 47 per cent of shareholders.
Business View: Lord Browne went for the wrong reason
Published: 06 May 2007
Hamish McRae: Rational exuberance: the giddy rise of shares may still have some way to go
Published: 06 May 2007
Expert View: If your linen's just a bit dirty, the briefs have to air it
Published: 06 May 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Consolidation is name of game
Published: 05 May 2007
Michael Harrison's Outlook: Shell's revival should give Hayward hope
Published: 04 May 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Rank hypocrisy of the public interest case for outing the flawed BP boss, Lord Browne
Published: 03 May 2007
Hamish McRae: Why newspapers can make net gains by embracing digital technology
Published: 03 May 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Browne's downfall is like a Greek tragedy. His end is sealed finally by a jilted lover
Published: 02 May 2007
It is hard to imagine a more tragic or ignominious end to a once glittering business career than the one suffered yesterday by Lord Browne of Madingley, the now former chief executive of BP. After two years of mishaps and disasters, Lord Browne's hard-earned position as Britain's most admired business leader already lay in tatters. Yet it is his private life which has finally brought him down, exposed as so often occurs in that most heartless and brutal of ways by a kiss-and-tell story by a former lover.
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Hedge funds are RBS's new best friends
Published: 01 May 2007
The Investment Column: Mothercare deal with ELC looks set to be a match made in heaven
Published: 01 May 2007
Our view: Buy
Stephen King: Why Ben has had to bin his pipe and slippers
Published: 30 April 2007
Hamish McRae: At last, German self-discipline is paying off - and the Spanish fiesta has to stop
Published: 29 April 2007
The tortoise is catching up with the hare. The continental European economy as a whole is growing strongly at last, with Germany in particular experiencing its fastest growth since 2000. Yet Spain, until recently the fastest-growing of the large European economies, is now falling back, and its property market is in serious trouble. What's up?
Andrew Murray-Watson: Buy Arsenal if you like. Just don't call it a soccer club
Published: 29 April 2007
Expert View: Waiting for take-off in the land of the strange clouds
Published: 29 April 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: ABN Amro trickier than Alliance Boots
Published: 28 April 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Poker-faced Sir Fred prepares to reveal his hand but the cards are stacked against him
Published: 27 April 2007
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Here's one way through the ABN conundrum for Sir Fred, but it is hardly an easy one
Published: 26 April 2007
It's never over until it is over, so back comes Sir Fred Goodwin, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, with an apparently higher, and generally more attractive offer for ABN Amro than that already tabled by Barclays and agreed by the ABN board. This rather puts Arthur Martinez, the ABN Amro chairman, on the spot, or at least it would do if he could have any confidence in Sir Fred's €39 a share cash and shares offer being a real bid.
The Investment Column: Profits dip at GSK but the pipeline is set to deliver
Published: 26 April 2007
Our view: Buy
Market Report: Deutsche Telekom eyes a spruced up C&W
Published: 26 April 2007
It has been a while since rumours of a bid for Cable & Wireless did the rounds. This time last year they were almost daily, but if the gossip is true that Deutsche Telekom is mulling a bid for C&W it will have to pay substantially more than it would have done a year ago.
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Have KKR got 'deal fever' over Boots?
Published: 25 April 2007
