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Icap's threat to quit UK over EU tax
Margareta Pagano: One of the City's richest and most successful financiers, Michael Spencer, warned yesterday that Icap, the world's biggest interdealer broker, would move overseas if the EU forces through plans for a Tobin tax on financial transactions.
Inside Business News
Double-dip fear as markets seek reassurance
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Traders worried that politicians and bankers are failing to calm share jitters
JD Sports hires adviser to seek sites for at least 100 stores across France
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Sportswear and fashion retailer JD Sports is planning an aggressive expansion into France, which could lead to a chain of at least 100 shops.
Stanfords reinvents itself as 21st-century 'travel expert'
Sunday, 21 August 2011
One of the UK's oldest map and travel shops, Stanfords, is moving into the 21st century with a new website, travel club and loyalty-points scheme.
Patron expands hostel and football interests ahead of exit
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Patron Capital Partners, the US private equity investor with €1.7bn (£1.5bn) of assets, is rolling out two businesses ahead of an exit.
MyKindaCrowd is shortlisted by Big Venture Challenge
Sunday, 21 August 2011
MyKindaCrowd.com has got through to the final stages of the UnLtd Big Venture Challenge – a competition to reward 25 social entrepreneurs in the UK and boost investment in the sector.
Market chaos: Gold and Yen offer investors safe haven
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Investors are continuing to pile into safe havens of gold, the Swiss franc and yen as market turmoil persisted on Friday.
Investors beg leaders to act as markets fall again
Saturday, 20 August 2011
David Prosser: Stock markets around the world endured yet another day of turmoil yesterday, as fears about the global economy and the deteriorating sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone continued to unnerve investors.
The real price of the gold boom
Saturday, 20 August 2011
Alex Duval Smith: Its value goes up and up, producers are scrambling to cash in, and people are being hurt in the rush.
Improving public finances offer UK a glimmer of hope
Saturday, 20 August 2011
David Prosser: The UK's public finances improved in July, official data showed yesterday, providing some cheer for George Osborne, the Chancellor, amid the market turmoil.
Experts mourn the passing of the 'best of British software' with proposed deal
Saturday, 20 August 2011
The proposed takeover of the UK's largest software company yesterday had experts bemoaning the demise of the "last of the great independents".
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