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The Future of Investing

How Investment Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Financial investment tends to be a relatively static industry. When you think about what investments are you likely think of stock market...
the new normal

What Does ‘The New Normal’ Mean for Businesses?

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a state of upheaval to all our lives, the scale of which most of us have never...
Eco friendly Investments

Eco Friendly Investments

There are plenty of opportunities for you to invest in eco-friendly ways. What you choose to do will depend on how much...
marketing ideas for 2020

New Ways To Market Your Business In 2020

Social Media We all know that social media has the potential to greatly improve the profile of a business...
Emotional Intelligence in Management

Emotional Intelligence in Management

Emotional intelligence (EQ for short) is our ability to analyse, interpret and predict the emotional state of other people as well as...
Billionaires calculator

Whinging Billionaires!

With Trump in the mix, there is always something to laugh about for those of us following the US presidential race. This...
BoE November report and Brexit

Does Boris’ Brexit Deal Lower Growth?

The Bank of England released its quarterly Monetary Policy Report at the start of November. It contained lower growth forecasts for...
Cloud Computing Benefits

Cloud Computing: Benefits

There is no doubt that virtually every business these days relies heavily on IT in one form or another. From booking services...
wikipedia funding

Wikipedia risks getting left behind over anti-advertising bias

For all the hype of Web 2.0, few internet ventures have embraced interactivity as thoroughly and radically as Wikipedia, the revolutionary free...
Parmalat collapse

Top banks to stand trial in Parmalat case

Four of the world's largest investment banks have been ordered to stand trial for stock market manipulation during the collapse of Parmalat,...
the guardian

Tax Dodging Spivs!

The Guardian has a shock horror expose of the way in which Tesco doesn't pay the right amount of tax. It's truly...
ubisoft

Hard Decisions At Ubisoft

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Ubisoft founder and CEO Yves Guillemot is likely to see U.S. rival Electronic Art's hostile bid for Take-Two Interactive Software...
Alistair Darling

Darling’s Bet on Northern Rock

LONDON (Dow Jones)-- It's easy to put all the blame on U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling for the current fate of Northern Rock.
The truth about wind farms

Wind farms: millionaire playgrounds for Green fat cats

ENERGY policy in Great Britain has been a shambles for years. Cowardly governments have turned a blind eye to repeated warnings over...
Bad use of statistics

Jackie Ashley’s Answer

I said I'd come back to you if Jackie Ashley answered my email on her (incorrect) figures for the part time gender pay gap....
Pay equality

Guardian Amusement of the Day

Nick Davies rather rips into the quality of journalism in this country: The implication of those two findings is truly...
American Vote

Google launches America Votes

By David Crow I've always argued that the hugely successful Australia Votes - a Google site that reported the recent...
EU

Those NGOs Supporting the EU Constitution

One of the delightful little things out political masters have to persuade us of the merits of the EU Constitution Reform Treaty is the...
Ford

Full speed ahead as Ford plans summer sale of Volvo

FORD, the American car giant, is secretly planning the $6bn (£3.05bn, E4.03bn) sale of Volvo, its loss-making Swedish brand, for the summer.
More money for the BBC?

How To Bribe Politicians

Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, yesterday warned the government it would have to provide more money for public service broadcasting if...
Gordon Brown

Sterling could be the final nail in the Prime Minister’s coffin

Gordon Brown must have found the New Year predictions troublesome reading. Just about every City economist is predicting the British economy will...
breathing exercises relieve office stress

A picture of health

I’m sitting in a chair with a clip attached to my ear, breathing deeply. Breathe in for five seconds, breathe out for...
Financial Crisis

Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’

As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues things are rapidly...
Libor divergence

Fears as Libor fails to mirror base rate cut

Further proof that Britain's money markets are moving beyond the Bank of England's control emerged yesterday as the cost of inter-bank borrowing...