WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 28, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Bostock poised to leave M&S Kate Bostock, the head of all of Marks and Spencer’s non-food business, including clothing, is poised to leave the high street retailer. Ms Bostock’s departure could be announced at M&S’s annual meeting on July 10, or possibly sooner. The expected departure of Ms Bostock, who has been with [...]
Surprisingly positive data lifts US shares June 27, 2012 U S stocks rose yesterday as stronger-than-expected economic data helped lift energy stocks, overshadowing concerns a European Union summit will not yield tangible progress in easing the debt crisis. The energy sector showed the strongest gains among the 10 major S&P 500 groups, rising 1.9 per cent as oil prices settled higher at $80.21 a [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 10, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES MICROSOFT ALLEGES PIRACY IN CHINA LAWSUITS Microsoft has stepped up its fight against software piracy in China with unprecedented lawsuits against Chinese electronics retailers. The company is suing Shanghai Gome, a branch of one of the country’s largest electronics and appliances chains, and Beijing Chaoyang Buynow, one of China’s largest computer malls. The [...]
What’s in the queen’s speech May 9, 2012 ■ Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Bill aimed at streamlining business by merging competition regulators, reforming employment tribunals and granting investors a binding vote on executive pay. ■ Banking Reform: Banks must ring-fence retail and investment arms. ■ Groceries Adjudicator: Major retailers must treat suppliers fairly. ■ Energy: More restrictions on coal power emissions, incentives to [...]
What’s in the queen’s speech May 9, 2012 ■ Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Bill aimed at streamlining business by merging competition regulators, reforming employment tribunals and granting investors a binding vote on executive pay. ■ Banking Reform: Banks must ring-fence retail and investment arms. ■ Groceries Adjudicator: Major retailers must treat suppliers fairly. ■ Energy: More restrictions on coal power emissions, incentives to [...]
UK CAN EXTRADITE ABU HAMZA FOR TRIAL April 10, 2012 BRITAIN can extradite its most notorious Islamist cleric to the US to stand trial on charges that he supported al Qaeda and aided a fatal kidnapping in Yemen, the European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday. Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri faces a sentence of over 100 years in high-security US prisons if found guilty.
UK CAN EXTRADITE ABU HAMZA FOR TRIAL April 10, 2012 BRITAIN can extradite its most notorious Islamist cleric to the US to stand trial on charges that he supported al Qaeda and aided a fatal kidnapping in Yemen, the European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday. Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri faces a sentence of over 100 years in high-security US prisons if found guilty.
Vestra’s classic formula: Your assets, your choice January 8, 2012 AT THE end of a High Court case, and with the banking system falling apart around us, I thought this had to be either the end of the business or the beginning of something good,” says David Scott, the founder of the mid-sized wealth management firm Vestra Wealth. “But the thing was, I had invested [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 20, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Banks to get cheap money to lift UK lending The government’s new “funding for lending” programme, designed to boost credit for British business, will cut banks’ costs to as little as 1.2 per cent, according to people briefed on the scheme. The supply of such cheap money to the banks is supposed to [...]
Activists break into Xstrata’s London site November 30, 2011 PROTESTERS from the Occupy movement stormed the London base of mining giant Xstrata yesterday to highlight the pay package of its chief executive. Activists also climbed onto the roof of the Haymarket building, set off flares to the soundtrack of samba music and hung a banner declaring: “All power to the 99 per cent”. The [...]