Lord Marland new trade envoy May 10, 2011 Lord Marland of Odstock is to be the new face of British business trade delegations abroad, leading British bosses to meet foreign ministers and counterparts. The businessman and politician, who was founding director of the insurer Jardine Lloyd Thomson, has been hired as the chairman of the British Business Ambassadors by UK Trade & Investment [...]
Lord Marland new trade envoy May 10, 2011 Lord Marland of Odstock is to be the new face of British business trade delegations abroad, leading British bosses to meet foreign ministers and counterparts. The businessman and politician, who was founding director of the insurer Jardine Lloyd Thomson, has been hired as the chairman of the British Business Ambassadors by UK Trade & Investment [...]
CBI warns of climate change risk September 12, 2010 The CBI will today call on the government to make readily available to businesses its environmental data, to help firms prepare for the risks of climate change. The proposals include the creation of a new public information bank showing the risk to critical infrastructure of rising temperatures and extreme weather. The CBI’s director of business [...]
City panel says Greece will default within the next year June 26, 2011 VOICE OF THE CITY AN overwhelming majority of our Voice of the City Panel, run in association with Politics Home, thinks that Greece will default on its debt within the next year. But less than a third believe that the UK should have a role in international efforts to prop up the Greek economy, with [...]
No chance of a Christmas rest as markets stay under pressure December 18, 2011 AFTER failing to break above resistance at 5,600 (the 61.8 per cent Fibonacci Retracement of this year’s May-to-August sell-off) last week, the FTSE100 pulled back sharply. Sentiment turned negative following another botched EU summit. While the UK has been labelled the villain for vetoing treaty changes, the fact is that EU policymakers remain unwilling to [...]
No chance of a Christmas rest as markets stay under pressure December 18, 2011 AFTER failing to break above resistance at 5,600 (the 61.8 per cent Fibonacci Retracement of this year’s May-to-August sell-off) last week, the FTSE100 pulled back sharply. Sentiment turned negative following another botched EU summit. While the UK has been labelled the villain for vetoing treaty changes, the fact is that EU policymakers remain unwilling to [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 25, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES NORWEGIAN CARRIER AIMS HIGH WITH 222 AIRCRAFT ORDERS Norwegian Air Shuttle plans to buy 222 new aircraft worth $21.1bn from Boeing and Airbus in a move that heralds its ambition to become one of Europe’s leading low-cost airlines. Boeing secured its largest ever European deal through a firm order by the Oslo-based airline [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 25, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES HACKING FEARS SPARK TRINITY REVIEW Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, has launched a review of its editorial controls and procedures amid investor anxiety that phone-hacking claims could spread beyond the defunct News of the World. Trinity saw its shares fall 9.8 per cent yesterday over concern among investors that the [...]
How global progress could be halted July 5, 2011 WHENEVER I get too depressed about the state of the world, I turn to a website called rationaloptimist.com. Its author, Matt Ridley, is the scourge of the neo-Malthusian, doom and gloom pessimists – from the left and the right – who see catastrophes, famines and collapse around every corner. Ridley’s worldview, which draws on his [...]
Green Bank to start lending from April 2012 May 23, 2011 Green Investment Bank (GIB) will start lending money to fund low-carbon energy projects from April 2012, a year earlier than initially planned, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said. “Possible early priorities for the bank are offshore wind, waste, and non-domestic energy efficiency,” Clegg said in a speech to the Climate Change Capital advisory group in [...]