Business Analysis & Features
Do Big Phil and Shiny Simon have the X Factor?
The king of the talent show is raking it in while saving ITV. But that's not enough. Now, reports Richard Northedge, Simon Cowell is forming a joint venture with a real billionaire, Sir Philip Green
Inside Business Analysis & Features
Will carbon dioxide give Miliband the slip?
Sunday, 15 November 2009
The minister is backing his nuclear play with a side bet on storing CO2. But Mark Leftly wonders if the untried technology will work
Copenhagen in the balance
Sunday, 15 November 2009
The UN is to hold a conference in Copenhagen next month that it hopes will lead to a dramatic shift in the world's attitude to climate change.
The Google conundrum
Saturday, 14 November 2009
News Corp is taking its media off Google as it prepares to start charging. But more than half its traffic comes from search engines. How do you solve that one, Rupert? Nick Clark reports
Is Britain's poker boom folding?
Friday, 13 November 2009
Research from Mintel suggests a sharp slowdown but poker companies are not yet ready to bust out, reports James Moore
James Smith: We need a worldwide carbon trade
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Business Interview: Shell may seem an unlikely climate campaigner, but their UK chairman is crossing his fingers for an international deal on CO2 emissions at Copenhagen
When will the new bubbles burst?
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The markets are on a high, but with unemployment, bankruptcies and repossessions still rising, is this buoyancy sustainable, asks Sean O'Grady
The mystery of why house prices are still rising
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Sean O'Grady: With unemployment up and people avoiding debt, why aren't property prices falling?
The unanswered questions around the emergency HBOS cash call
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Just four months before its humiliating collapse into the arms of Lloyds, the bank's chairman assured shareholders that it had sufficient funds for at least a year. How could he have got it so wrong? Ian Fraser reports
Roll up, roll up, for the great bank sell-off
Sunday, 8 November 2009
But who will buy the pieces chipped off Northern Rock, RBS and Lloyds? Richard Northedge reports on the impact of Neelie Kroes's order
An Ossi success amid the disenchantment
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Two decades after the fall of Communism, and 19 years after reunification, Victor Sebestyen reports on one of Europe's biggest economic triumphs
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