Spiralling prices are hurting the UK February 15, 2011 TAKE your pick. Is inflation four per cent a year, as the official, consumer price index measure suggests, or 5.1 per cent, as the older, broader retail price index would have you believe? My own favourite measure of how the cost of living is going up is the tax and price index, which has surged [...]
High electricity prices to hurt growth July 11, 2010 HERE is another reason why the recovery will be muted. Gas and electricity costs will rise substantially in the years ahead and are set to hammer not only consumers but also manufacturers, further eroding their competitiveness and that of Britain as a place to do business. It is not market forces that will push up [...]
High electricity prices to hurt growth July 11, 2010 HERE is another reason why the recovery will be muted. Gas and electricity costs will rise substantially in the years ahead and are set to hammer not only consumers but also manufacturers, further eroding their competitiveness and that of Britain as a place to do business. It is not market forces that will push up [...]
BANKING CHEMISTRY GEEKS GET CREATIVE August 19, 2010 THANK heaven for the idle pairs of hands which yesterday provided The Capitalist with the throatiest chuckle of the week. Into the inbox popped a link that’s been doing the rounds in the City, containing a link to a “periodic table” – though not one that would be familiar to many from distant memories of [...]
BANKING CHEMISTRY GEEKS GET CREATIVE August 19, 2010 THANK heaven for the idle pairs of hands which yesterday provided The Capitalist with the throatiest chuckle of the week. Into the inbox popped a link that’s been doing the rounds in the City, containing a link to a “periodic table” – though not one that would be familiar to many from distant memories of [...]
CITY BOSS FINDS SLICE OF ARCTIC HISTORY September 20, 2010 REGULAR readers will remember Tim Levy, the bold chief executive of alternative investment firm Future Capital Partners, who last month set off on a gruelling expedition to the Arctic with one of his best mates, hare-brained TV adventurer Bear Grylls. Levy and Grylls – famed for his creepy crawly-eating escapades on Channel 4’s Born Survivor [...]
Green Investment Bank gets go ahead in Budget June 22, 2010 THE government pledged to flesh out its plans for a Green Investment Bank to encourage funding for low carbon technologies. The project, which was included in Alistair Darling’s last Budget, will attempt to remove barriers to an environmentally sustainable economy. The Budget report said: “The government will put forward detailed proposals on the creation of [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 23, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES COMPANIES NOW TURN TO PRIVATE PLACEMENTS FOR FUNDING Private placement deals – whereby companies tap investors directly for loans – are on track for one of their strongest years, highlighting the extent to which companies are seeking to diversify their funding sources away from banks. Companies tapped the market for $27.4bn in the [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 23, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES COMPANIES NOW TURN TO PRIVATE PLACEMENTS FOR FUNDING Private placement deals – whereby companies tap investors directly for loans – are on track for one of their strongest years, highlighting the extent to which companies are seeking to diversify their funding sources away from banks. Companies tapped the market for $27.4bn in the [...]
Huhne backs new nuclear power plants July 27, 2010 CHRIS Huhne, the energy secretary, threw his weight behind new nuclear energy yesterday, reversing years of Liberal Democrat opposition to nuclear power. Huhne said a nuclear building programme would be “on track by 2018”, suggesting the government will move faster than originally thought. The Institute of Directors welcomed the announcement, but called on the government [...]