OJ Simpson: justice and revenge
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Downing Street darlings
Gordon Brown showed himself to be charming, funny even. Who knew? To 10 Downing Street for an invite from Gordon…
ByUBS cutting 2,000 more jobs to focus on core
UBS is to cut a further 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its investment banking business. UBS is…
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Gordon Brown is to attend an emergency pan-European summit on financial stability. Gordon Brown is to attend an emergency pan-European…
ByWith Art London, it begins
Art fair time is upon us again. Break out the Amex Black. Art fair time is upon again. Break out…
ByFiddling the figures
Bankers win when they win, and win when they lose. Bankers are paid obscene amounts when times are good, but…
ByMiddle of Nowhere, New York
Watching the financial markets has been as entertaining as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. I heard a funny story…
ByABN on the block with EUR200bn private client assets
Bids are being requested for the biggest global private banking business to come on to the market in recent years,…
ByCoutts aids green giving
Coutts & Co is launching a pilot for philanthropists interested in the environment. For the first time, Coutts clients will…
ByAwards, winners and burgers
The night before I had a dream in which there weren’t any banks to give awards to. We had a…
ByWMS on the WWW
Spear’s WMS has achieved electronic lift-off. Welcome to spearswms.com, the website of Spear’s Wealth Management Survey. Along with the quarterly’s…
ByIrish government to guarantee all deposits
The Irish government announced that it would guarantee all bank deposits for two years to maintain financial stability and calm…
ByStephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
ByJosh Spero
Josh Spero is the editor of Spear’s. Before Spear’s, he was at The Independent and has written for publications including…
ByThe bail-out that flared out
An unseemly brawl aboard the $700bn super jumbo. No sooner had Capt. Hank Paulson lined up his $700 billion super-jumbo…
BySecond Benelux bailout: Dexia gets EUR6.4bn
Belgium, France and Luxembourg have agreed to inject EUR6.4 billion into the pressured Franco-Belgian bank Dexia, Belgian Prime Minister Yves…
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Gold-diggers are planning their exit strategies now their City husbands’ bonuses are evaporating, according to these worried cuckolds of the…
ByLet’s Do Crunch
Until now the credit crunch has been confined to the City and Wall Street banks who were selling each other…
ByCrib Chic
Raheem Brennerman has a very clear idea about how the owners of the properties he builds and furnishes get to…
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