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Fans of the steamy BBC dealing room drama Industry will be less than impressed at the flimsy evidence on which multi-million-pound trades on foreign exchange markets are made. A combination of guile, instinct and, occasionally, hard data drives trends. Currency dealers may have little more direct insight as to what is going on in the … Read more

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on Britain’s air transport industry, hospitality and London’s role as one of the world’s great entrepot cities. Traffic at Heathrow plunged 88 per cent year-on-year in November to 747,000. Last year, 81m passengers went through the airport. The owners – Spain’s Ferrovial, the Qatar Investment Authority et al – have … Read more

Spend now – regret later: Retailers desperate for sales should remember they have a moral responsibility too, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 15 December 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 15 December 2020 New Look used to be one of my favourite High Street haunts as a teenager. … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Pharma giant Astrazeneca’s £100bn plus valuation and £30bn bid for Alexion is a tonic for global Britain By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:22 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 22:27 GMT, 14 December 2020 For the second time in the last six years, Astrazeneca (AZ) is defying the odds. In … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Affluent ‘young-old’ have amassed billions of savings before and during pandemic and will be spending it once virus has been tamed As a society, we are conflicted in our attitudes to old age and the economics of an ageing population  We are simultaneously protective and dismissive, a contradiction that has been highlighted by … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Savings giant National Savings & Investments must face up to security flaws NOW By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 GMT, 12 December 2020 | Updated: 23:42 GMT, 12 December 2020 National Savings & Investments has got itself into a terrible pickle in recent months.  And it has yet to … Read more

Let’s look forward. We have no idea which way the coin will fall over our trade relationship with Europe, but can have a feeling for how our trading relationships will shift in the coming years.  Whatever happens we will be trading less with Europe and more with the rest of the world.  There are a … Read more

Floats that defied Covid: What makes the 2020 IPO boom so extraordinary are the circumstances, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 The year of Covid-19 and the worst ever global shock in peacetime might not seem the best … Read more

Mind the UK output gap: GDP gives some idea how UK PLC is doing, but doesn’t deserve the totemic status it has acquired, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 10 December 2020 The latest monthly output data tells us what we … Read more

Sometimes you have to wonder about the ambition and vision of Britain’s captains of industry. Admittedly G4S, the world’s biggest security outfit, has a chequered back story.