Business Analysis & Features
Master of the universe: Can we learn to love hedge funds?
How can a hedge fund manager defend cashing in on others' misfortunes? Easy, Hugh Hendry tells Simon Usborne.
Inside Business Analysis & Features
Azerbaijan: Pumping oil and gas
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Azerbaijan, with its natural resources, is vital to easing Russia's grip on the EU's energy – if new supply lines can get up and running. Mark Leftly reports from the capital, Baku, on the power plays that make this small country one of the most important in the world
What every expert needs, a book midwife
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Mindy Gibbins-Klein talks to Margareta Pagano about the middle route between vanity and traditional publishing
From favelas to orphanages: inside the stories of injustice
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Chris Rogers tells Matthew Bell of the trouble stirred up by his new book, Undercover
David Prosser: An unlikely windfall from the financial crisis?
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Whisper it quietly, touch some wood and cross your fingers, but British taxpayers may yet come to view the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression as a nice little earner. It looks increasingly likely that all the billions pumped into our deadbeat banking sector will eventually come back to us – with some profit thrown in.
France and Germany divided over their roles in Greek tragedy
Saturday, 20 March 2010
With the future of Greece and the euro at stake, Paris and Berlin are at loggerheads. Sean O'Grady reports
Mutual model drives Co-op profit surge
Friday, 19 March 2010
The Co-operative Group benefited from a 'flight to trust' to deliver record profits in 2009. James Thompson finds out how
Francis Baron: The new business of rugby kicks amateurism into touch
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The Business Interview: Expanding rugby's commercial horizons are the key to success the RFU's chief executive tells Sarah Arnott
Domain names: Will sex still sell?
Thursday, 18 March 2010
At $14m, it was the internet's most costly address just four years ago. But as sex.com goes on sale today, many doubt whether it can get investors excited all over again
Anger as petrol prices accelerate into the fast lane
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Wholesale prices and tax rises are blamed for pump prices heading for yet another all-time high.
British tank industry on the wrong track?
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
If the Scout deal goes to a US firm it will kill the British tank industry, and shine a spotlight on the UK's open defence policy. Sarah Arnott reports
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1US House approves sweeping healthcare overhaul
2Byers refers himself to watchdog over lobbying row
3Master of the universe: Can Hugh Hendry teach us to love hedge funds?
4Ministers furious at new lobbying 'scandal'
5Bruce Anderson: Only a different leadership can save the Irish church
6Research shows a third of Londoners are jobless
7Jeremy Laurance: A health debate outsiders find hard to understand
8Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The future of politics lies with women
9Harriet Harman denies ex-ministers influenced decisions
10James Lawton: Liverpool's disunited front proves writing is on the wall for Benitez
Columnist Comments
• Bruce Anderson: Different leadership can save church
Out of weakness its bishops condoned both terrorists and sexual terrorists.
• Alibhai-Brown: The future of politics lies with women
The leaders are trying to charm us with vacuous words and meaningless policies.
• Philip Hensher: Why Austen would never win the Booker
The ambitious novel with a regard for humour is not dead, but is beleaguered.