Spear’s Book Awards 2009 Shortlist Announced
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Month: May 2009
Routing the hedgies
Expensive regulation already proven on a dramatic scale not to work at all frightens the hedgies The real point is…
ByNukes 'R' Us
Bolivia is a known supplier of uranium, but Venezuela? Of course, reports pertaining to WMD have been wrong before Lest…
ByMeet the UK's Deep Throat
The biggest scandal to rock British politics in 300 years was started by an American freelance writer in London. As…
ByScenes from Everyday Life. Right Now!
Do you have an anecdote about living in our times? We encourage readers to share them in the Comments section…
ByWBrief: UBS restates 08 results, reduces net profit
As presaged in its first quarter 2009 report, UBS has restated its annual results for 2008, producing a reduction in…
ByCantonal banks benefit from financial panic
Switzerland’s cantonal banks have been among the main beneficiaries in the private banking market over the course of the global…
ByExpenses and expressos
Anthony Steen MP is obsessed with coffee. He could talk about it until you felt he really didn’t need to…
ByCoping With It: Stubble
A new cartoon from the sharpest pen: Stubble
BySpying from the Bench?
Documents that indicate the former a Supreme Court Justice could have been a Soviet spy. New Cold War documents have…
ByFT: LSE loses £251m after Borsa write-down
The London Stock Exchange suffered a pre-tax annual loss of £251m after it was obliged to write down the accounting…
ByTimes: Japan’s GDP shrinks by fastest rate ever
Japan spent the first quarter of 2009 in its worst spiral of decline ever recorded, with GDP in the world’s…
ByGuardian: Shareholders revolt over pay at Shell
Shareholder anger over executive bonuses reached fever pitch when three blue chip companies – Shell, stockbroker Evolution and retailer Next…
ByJulius Baer to split into separate PB and WM arms
Julius Baer is to separate its private banking and asset management arms into two distinct business units, both listed separately…
ByMurder in the Presidential Palace
The man in the video says: “If you are watching this message, it’s because I was murdered by Pres. Álvaro…
ByInterview with Alan Miller as he launches new WM firm
Alan Miller, former New Star manager, has launched a new wealth management boutique with Alexander Spencer-Churchill in response to what…
ByFT: Wealthy form art syndicate to find bargains
A group of wealthy investors is forming a syndicate to buy two corporate art collections, worth up to $65m (£43m).…
ByGuardian: Sir Victor Blank to resign from Lloyds
Sir Victor Blank, one of Gordon Brown’s favourite businessmen, has been forced to step down as chairman of Lloyds Banking…
ByWith Friends Like These
Frenemies are useful and often do lovely things for each other: give great gifts, throw fab parties in each other’s…
ByHook, line, sunk
Next month will see the release of a film that hopes to do for fish what An Inconvenient Truth did…
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