The share price of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, did not shudder as the US justice department filed its historic lawsuit. The company remains a $1tn enterprise that can hire America’s ...
The pandemic has shown that rail franchising is no longer working, declared the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, on Monday, killing the model of privatisation of the past 25 years. His ...
Here’s a rule of thumb for boards in a crisis: if your company’s reputation is still being shredded three weeks after you tried to put a lid on events, you ...
Thursday’s biggest faller in the FTSE 100 index was Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, a wholly unsurprising move on a day the technology-heavy Nasdaq took a tumble. The trust’s portfolio is ...
You have to admire Elon Musk’s stage management. On Monday, the Tesla founder delivered a crowd-pleasing five-for-one stock split, transforming a $2,300 share price into a smaller figure to make ...
The first boardroom rule when commissioning an independent review after an alleged scandal is to commit to publishing the final document in its entirety. If the aim is transparency, there ...
Monday’s most important vaccine news was the promising early data from the Oxford University and AstraZeneca coronavirus trial – “robust immune responses” is encouraging. But let’s not overlook other vaccine ...
It’s obligatory these days, even if you’re the chief economist of the Bank of England, to play the game of ascribing a letter to the likely shape of the UK’s ...
The case for bailing out Tata Steel in the UK, via a £500m bespoke loan from the government, is simple: the cost of not rescuing the country’s largest steel maker ...
If you want to see how complicated it is possible to make the financing of an owner of shopping centres, have a trawl though Intu’s annual report for 2019, which ...
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