WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 19, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES FURTHER VAT RISES LIKELY AS EUROPE SETS THE PACEBritain will be levying the fifth-lowest value-added tax rate in Europe after it reverts to 17.5 per cent in January, according to a survey that is likely to reinforce expectations of further rises after the general election. A survey by KPMG, the professional services group, [...]
Six investment trends that will move markets in this decade January 3, 2010 YOU might say that trying to predict what will happen in the markets in the next 10 years is a mug’s game. A decade ago, the dotcom bubble was still inflating and Lehman Brothers was a flourishing investment bank. Nobody could have seen what the financial world would look like by the start of 2010. [...]
What to read this Christmas December 16, 2009 Thrillers THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST BY STIEG LARSSON Maclehose, £18.99 The third and final novel in the late Swedish crime writer’s hugely popular Millennium Trilogy – all three books have been published posthumously. Computer hacker and investigator Lisbeth Salander’s third outing is no less electrifying than the previous two, as she tries [...]
Lufthansa cost cuts on track October 12, 2009 LUFTHANSA is on course to meet its cost-cutting targets, its chief executive said yesterday. “We are on track in all areas,” Wolfgang Mayrhuber said, as he relaunched the airline’s on-board broadband internet service FlyNet. To safeguard profitability in the downturn, Lufthansa has said it plans to cut €1bn (£936m) of annual costs by 2011. It [...]
FINANCIAL TIMES November 5, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES LULA CALLS ON LEADERS TO ATTEND CLIMATE TALKSBrazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the Financial Times he would speak to Barack Obama, US president, next week to [...]
FINANCIAL TIMES November 5, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES LULA CALLS ON LEADERS TO ATTEND CLIMATE TALKSBrazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the Financial Times he would speak to Barack Obama, US president, next week to [...]
How the Queen of support services wants to turn UK companies green January 6, 2010 GOING GREEN may not be the most original of strategies but that doesn’t make it any less lucrative. So Mitie Ruby McGregor-Smith’s decision to bet the future of her support services giant on cashing in on the trend for all things environmental has gone down well with investors. The FTSE 250 company is still busy [...]
Maldives unveils $3 tourist tax September 7, 2009 The president of the Maldives has unveiled plans for a daily $3 (£1.80) tax on tourists to fund the country’s radical efforts to combat climate change. President Mohammed Nasheed has announced a series of measures to ward off the threat of rising sea levels on the island nation, which is on average little more than [...]
The return of risk appetite boosts nuclear, natural gas and coal ETFs September 23, 2009 WITH the UN climate change summit and the G20 meeting later this week, countries’ energy policy is expected to be a hot topic this autumn in the build up to the UN climate change conference being held in Copenhagen in December. Pressure is building on advanced economies to reduce their carbon emissions and develop cleaner [...]
Four years of turbulence in business life October 22, 2009 SPONSOR’S LETTER In the four years since it was launched, City A.M. has reported on the highs and lows of a remarkably turbulent period in the business world.There has been no shortage of crises to cover and trends to examine. No-one in September 2005 would have predicted the extraordinary events in economic history that we [...]