Legal errors delay eviction effort at UBS November 24, 2011 ATTEMPTS by UBS to evict protesters from its disused City offices have been delayed after the Occupy group challenged mistakes in the legal papers. The Swiss bank will make a second effort to have the activists removed on Monday, after initially serving a notice on the group last Friday. City A.M. understands the paperwork had [...]
Osborne’s U-turn comes as UK celebrates tax freedom day May 28, 2012 CONGRATULATIONS: you’ve just started to work for yourself. Today is tax freedom day, the day when Britons stop working for the chancellor and start working for themselves. The Adam Smith Institute has calculated that for the first 149 days of the year, every penny earned by the average UK resident will be taken by the [...]
Murray warms to Paris after frosty courtship May 28, 2012 BRITAIN’S Andy Murray insists he is warming to the French Open with every passing year as he prepares to launch his 2012 challenge against Japan’s Tatsuma Ito. The Scot has a poorer record at Roland Garros than the tennis calendar’s other three grand slams, having only made it past the last 16 on two occasions. [...]
There’ll be no UK Zuckerberg while we fear all failure June 11, 2012 POKE fun at Facebook’s plummeting shares all you like. Call the company overhyped. Doubt its lofty valuation. But the facts remain: Facebook, born eight years ago in Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room, has nearly a billion regular users and dominates internet social networking. Whether or not it continues to grow at breakneck speed, we’re all [...]
UBS to battle Occupy camp November 20, 2011 UBS could begin legal action this week against protesters who have taken over a disused City building owned by the Swiss bank. The bank’s lawyers spent the weekend considering their next step after the Occupy London group made the empty block its third site after setting up outside St Paul’s Cathedral and at Finsbury Square. [...]
UBS to battle Occupy camp November 20, 2011 UBS could begin legal action this week against protesters who have taken over a disused City building owned by the Swiss bank. The bank’s lawyers spent the weekend considering their next step after the Occupy London group made the empty block its third site after setting up outside St Paul’s Cathedral and at Finsbury Square. [...]
Chevron and Transocean execs held in Brazil pending spill case March 18, 2012 A Brazilian court has barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November. Over the weekend a federal judge in Rio de Janeiro state granted a request from prosecutors who are pressing for charges against both firms. George Buck, who heads Chevron’s Brazil [...]
Canary Wharf gets court order November 3, 2011 THE MAKESHIFT campsite filled with a motley group of protesters will not be allowed to spill over into Canary Wharf after its owners won a High Court injunction. It was feared the headquarters of Barclays and HSBC could be targeted next after an astonishing U-turn by St Paul’s and the City of London Corporation, who [...]
Canary Wharf gets court order November 3, 2011 THE MAKESHIFT campsite filled with a motley group of protesters will not be allowed to spill over into Canary Wharf after its owners won a High Court injunction. It was feared the headquarters of Barclays and HSBC could be targeted next after an astonishing U-turn by St Paul’s and the City of London Corporation, who [...]
Over to you, Merkel June 6, 2012 Europe’s political leaders must act now to restore confidence and stop their ravaged economies from collapsing any further, European Central Bank (ECB) boss Mario Draghi insisted yesterday as he again refused to cut interest rates. Draghi stressed the Eurozone’s problems could not be solved by monetary policy, and that politicians must stop hesitating and take [...]