John Lewis

Market forces: Costs in store for Sainsbury's | Prepare for a cold Christmas | Wolseley statement...

Costs in store for Sainsbury'sJ Sainsbury thrilled investors with a stonking first-half performance in the teeth of recession and chief executive Justin King deserves credit. But now may not be the right time to buy the shares....

Investing in Christmases ahead with a Child Trust Fund

More than half of British parents would rather their children received a contribution to their savings, rather than the latest expensive must-have toy, according to research by Child Trust Fund provider Family Investments. The...

Big stores link up in bid to beat the crunch

Published Date: 16 November 2008 MAJOR retailers in Glasgow, including John Lewis and House of Fraser, have teamed up to launch the Christmas Wrapped Up campaign to beat the credit crunch by attracting shoppers. Shops in the...

GALEN HOLLEY:Being ordained by God is a historical perspective

I and many others are excited about Barack Obama's victory and rightly so. Nobody can deny the historical singularity of this event and only the most cynical would fail to see it as a step forward in race relations.

Holy straight bananas - now the Eurocrats are banning moth balls

They have just reversed their ban on knobbly carrots, but now the Eurocrats have a surprising new target – moth balls. Now, however, the traditional pungent smell will become a thing of the past because of new EU restrictions...

Thousands of City workers axed in jobs bloodbath

JP Morgan, the US investment bank, is drawing up plans to axe thousands of jobs across its worldwide operations, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The move is likely to mean redundancy for hundreds of City workers, compounding...

SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROPONENTS PROTEST RALLY NOVEMBER 15 - LIST OF PARTICIPATING CITIES NATIONWIDE

LIST OF PARTICIPATING PROTEST CITIES NATIONWIDE Join the Impact SF calls on all those who find Proposition 8 unacceptable to join us for a protest Saturday, November 15 at 10:30 at City Hall in conjunction with the National Day...

Market forces: Rally goes into reverse after US points the way

The FTSE 100 staged a modest recovery yesterday, ending a three-day run of falling prices. The blue-chip index ended the day up 63.76 points at 4232.97, which represented a 132-point fall over the course of the week. The market...

Card issuers defy Brown's restraint plea

Gordon Brown has demanded that credit and store cards slash interest rates, calling this week for a "new responsible approach" to lending. He wants to "bring the credit-card industry in to talk" while his officials dubbed its...

Geoff Foster's market report: Another wacky Wall Street day

You would have thought punch-drunk dealers had seen it all during the past 18 gut-wrenching, credit-crunching months. But no. Wacky Wall Street's absolutely crazy 11 per cent, or 860 point, turnaround overnight left them...