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The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commission If ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, this...
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the...
Peter Stiff: Market report Thomas Cook led the FTSE 100 lower yesterday amid fears that the travel group may hold a fundraising. Shares in Thomas Cook fell 9.3p to 209.2p after Morgan Stanley said that it thought there was a...
Gordon Brown The PM still won't admit that too much state spending is economically destructive, says Jeremy Warner. In the dying days of Gordon Brown's Government, this ancient saw seems truer than ever. Everyone, that is,...
Mitchells & Butlers was in focus amid chatter the company has seen a huge increase in its pension deficit. At the company's interim results in May, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) said the last formal valuation on a trustee basis was...
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...
Readers' views on charity Christmas cards, estimated energy bills, buying train tickets, and how to spot a stockmarket bubble Charity that begins with a Christmas card Thank you so much for the article on Sreepur Christmas...
We Brits have a unique ability to embrace pessimism. We are rarely happier than when discussing the sheer awfulness of the country’s prospects. Indeed, if anything remotely good ever happens, we usually take it as a signal that...
Adrian Lowery, This is Money index was 44.97 points, or 1% lower, on the week at 5251.41. Bolland's departure from Wm Morrison left the supermarket group 5% down over the week at 275.6p. Rival Sainsbury dropped 4% to 329.4p on...
It is hard for international observers to grasp the political paralysis that grips the US, and that seriously threatens its ability to solve domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving. Indeed, America’s...
