Banks hate Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero
City financiers may not be tree-huggers, but uncertainty and risk are expensive.
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City financiers may not be tree-huggers, but uncertainty and risk are expensive.
ByCraig Gillespie’s tale of the GameStop “short squeeze” shows how little amateur investors have learned.
ByIn a new book the actor describes how celebrities have used cryptocurrencies and NFTs to monetise their fans.
ByNigel Farage and his wideboy colleagues face banishment.
ByInflation is rising less fast than expected – but that may not be much help.
ByThe prices of most goods are not set by humans, but by automatic processes set to maximise their owners’ gains.
ByWhat’s behind the apparently sinister de-banking of the Reform UK president – and why is the Prime Minister involved?
ByAndy Verity’s Rigged reveals how a few City bankers became scapegoats for a national rates-rigging scandal.
ByA fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
ByAs the Bank of England tries to fight inflation, commercial banks are enjoying bumper profits.
ByFraud is now endemic, accounting for 40 per cent of crime, but only a tiny minority of cases are ever…
ByIf the PM wants an economy built on high-growth start-ups, it’ll take more than a fun name.
ByWe should be wary of suggestions that centralise the risk in depositing and lending money.
ByThe collapse of SVB UK would have been an “extinction-level event” for his business, one entrepreneur says.
ByThey push for small government – until their companies are under threat.
ByA $200bn institution was brought low by a bad bet, social media and central banks.
ByThe government seems not to fully understand the implications of a “digital pound”.
ByThe UK is raising rates in line with America, but our economy seems headed in a different direction.
ByThe Thai-based businessman has given Johnson’s office £1m – the biggest donation ever to an MP. What does he hope…
ByTwitter is $13bn in debt and losing revenue, but for the world's richest man even failure can have an upside.
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