Business Comment

Simon Evans: How can Hayward stem the flow of vitriol from the US?

Bashing the beleaguered BP boss is a vote-winner

Inside Business Comment

Hamish McRae: We must use the next five years of growth to prepare for a downturn

Sunday, 13 June 2010

Economic view

Stephen Foley: Buried in a local paper: a glimpse of the future of journalism

Saturday, 12 June 2010

US Outlook: There was a new byline on the business pages of the Daily Tribune in Michigan last Sunday. It was a little byline on a humdrum story ("Maytag recalling 1.7 million dishwashers"), buried deep inside a small local paper from the rust belt of the US. But it looked to me like a vision of the future of newspapers.

Stephen Foley: The best prescription for pharma firms

Saturday, 12 June 2010

US Outlook: It was a legal battering in the US over the depression medicine Paxil that bounced GlaxoSmithKline into setting up an online register of all its clinical trial data, regardless of whether it had pushed to have the results of a study published in a medical journal. The company had been accused of burying studies which showed the medicine was less effective or more dangerous.

James Moore: In this case it's not the bankers that the OFT should have in its sights

Friday, 11 June 2010

Outlook A pologies for indulging in a football related metaphor (it's not as if we'll be starved of them over the next month) but it appears that the Office of Fair Trading is shooting at an open goal with its launch of an investigation into the way investment banks underwrite share issues (in other words, the fees they charge).

Hamish McRae: The First World debt crisis only serves to hasten the shift of power to the East

Friday, 11 June 2010

Economic Life: The problem is not just public debt. It is total debt. The governments of the developed world have over-borrowed but so have consumers and companies

James Moore: Another candidate for a kicking at the Pru

Friday, 11 June 2010

Outlook It seems that barely a day goes by without one shareholder or another coming out and calling for heads to roll at Prudential in the wake of the £450m the insurer wasted on its failed attempt to buy Asian insurer AIA.

Econoblog: The outlook isn’t great

Thursday, 10 June 2010

No surprise that the Bank held interest rates at 0.5 per cent.

Econoblog: BP could be forcred out of America

Thursday, 10 June 2010

The end game seems perilously near for BP.

David Prosser: Osborne has to pick and choose his battles with Europe

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Outlook It has not taken long for Britain's new government to run into trouble with the European Union. Barely a month has passed since the election and George Osborne has been in situ at Number 11 for an even shorter time. Yet the new Chancellor already finds himself at odds with his counterparts in the EU over how to respond to the latest stage in the financial crisis.

David Prosser: The watchdog with the fiercest bark?

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Outlook Wallop. Another warning shot from the Pensions Regulator arrives, urging the trustees of occupational pension schemes to ensure they have contingency plans that could be implemented very quickly should the finances of their companies take a sudden turn for the worse.

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