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It is said that nobody ever went broke by taking a profit — and, with the stock market up 22 per cent since January, its best year-to-date performance by far this decade, the lure of locking in gains is likely to be the...
The advance of digital music technology makes it possible to listen to and buy millions of recordings online. The market was once dominated by Apple’s iTunes, but competition has grown. Here Times Money rounds up the options...
Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing. This Christmas, e-book reading devices such as Amazon’s...
Miles Costello and David Robertson The appetite for flotations on the London Stock Exchange is ready to spring back to life with a clutch of companies worth a combined $10 billion (£6 billion) planning to list their shares....
Guide to the Large Hadron Collider The Cern facility has been intimately involved in the development of computing and the internet. It is called the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) and promises to transform any old...
Peter Stiff: Market report Shares in Staffline soared by nearly 20 per cent yesterday after the recruitment group said that it expected full-year results to be better than expected. The company, up 10p at 61p, said that a...
Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick Collinson It invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the...
A research note from Morgan Stanley said: "Demand is still weak, cost pressures re main and capacity getting harder to cut." That was enough, in an otherwise subdued session, to push shares in Thomas Cook and TUI Travel down by...
The furore concerning the Thierry Henry handball has moved into a new dimension of weirdness, with the player himself agreeing that the controversial World Cup qualifier should be replayed, while former Ireland captain Roy...
Comedian Michael McIntyre only recently joined the ranks of the mortgaged-to-the-eyeballs, but he is already fretting about the chances of his house falling down. 'It keeps me awake at night,' he explains, and not entirely in...
