FT: August sees £1m house sales in London soar
The number of homes sold for more than £1m in London soared in August as buyer confidence returned on the…
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Attacking the ATM thieves
Prior to the 9/11 atrocity there was a reluctance in many UK police forces to investigate crime where there were…
ByRed or white with your sarnie?
Which meant I drank at lunchtime every day for a fortnight. And it made the return to work even more…
ByBloomberg: Billionaire to auction more of wine cellar
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Albert Frere, a Belgian billionaire, is planning to sell more of his private wine cellar to…
ByTime: Divorcees await UBS settlement riches
It’s not just the U.S. government that wants to get its hands on the list of Americans who hold secretive…
ByIndy: So why did I buy my magazine back? It's all about risk
Read William Cash’s Independent article on why he bought back Spear’s and what his plans are for turning it into…
ByGuardian: Sarko limits bonuses, challenges G20
Nicolas Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to other G20 nations tonight when he announced a new set of rules limiting…
ByWBull: World’s most expensive hotel doubles rate
Amid the recession, rock stars, diplomats and other celebrities find solace from the doom and gloom by spending their time…
ByTel: Millionaire samurai ruckus in Mayfair court case settled
A millionaire property developer attacked his neighbour with a samurai sword in a row over building work at their exclusive…
ByLockerbie's secrets
There should not be any confusion about the evidence that indicated Libyan responsibility, but al-Megrahi may be one player in…
ByBloomberg: Pictet expects more US attacks on Sw
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — Jacques de Saussure, managing partner at Pictet & Cie., Switzerland’s biggest closely held private bank, expects…
ByCakes for the Eye
Regarding the stiff, sugary edifices of Mich Turner’s spectacular cake creations, one gets the feeling that this baker isn’t awfully…
ByNYT: UBS diamond-smuggling banker gets 3 years
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A former banker described by prosecutors as the man most responsible for igniting a investigation into…
BySTel: Saudi billionaires engaged in NY fraud trial
A Saudi billionaire with stakes in some of Britain’s biggest companies is at the centre of a multi-billion-dollar fraud that…
ByWBull: Cerberus asked for $4bn in redemptions
Clients controlling more than $4bn (-2.8bn) of the $7.7bn in assets in the Cerberus Partners hedge funds have put in…
BySunday Times: Ferguson vs Krugman in intellectual punchup over economy
One of them is a “poseur”. The other is “patronising”. One suffers from “verbal diarrhoea”. The other is a “whiner”.…
BySunday Times: Close Bros bids for Kleinwort
Close Brothers has tabled a bid for Kleinwort Benson, the private banking group, pitting itself against a rival consortium of…
BySwiss govt to sell off UBS stake after case resolved
The Swiss government is to sell its entire SwFr 6 billion investment in UBS, it announced late Wednesday night. The…
ByIntelligent Regulation Needed
You can regulate smartly, or you can over-regulate stupidly. Knee-jerk reactions like we are seeing at the moment inveiably seem…
ByNYT: US to prosecute at least 150 UBS clients
Federal prosecutors are building criminal cases against 150 wealthy American clients of the Swiss banking giant UBS as part of…
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