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ALEX BRUMMER: As much as the noise pains me, it would be good to see the big birds descending over Richmond Park again By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:17 BST, 27 August 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 27 August 2020 Opening an air corridor between London and New York, together with testing … Read more

Do you REALLY want six months’ salary sat in a ‘savings account’? There are more interesting and rewarding things to do with idle cash, says ADRIAN LOWERY By Adrian Lowery for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 05:00 BST, 27 August 2020 | Updated: 05:00 BST, 27 August 2020 It might seem an odd time to question the wisdom … Read more

Even the greatest optimist will draw cold comfort from the April-to-June data from the Paris-based OECD, which places Britain firmly at the bottom of output tables for the G7 biggest economies in the second quarter.  The UK’s performance is so much worse than that of the country’s major competitors that it verges on embarrassment, at … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: The idea of BT, Britain’s national telecoms company, hiding behind closed doors in private equity ownership ought to be anathema By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 24 August 2020 | Updated: 22:35 BST, 24 August 2020 When seasoned industrialist Jan du Plessis took the reins as chairman of BT … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: If pandemic’s patterns of job losses, work and childcare become set, women’s long-term earnings and career prospects will suffer Mothers spent less time on paid jobs in lockdown and more on household chores than fathers  This outbreak of accidental sexism must be tackled  By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Will investors get justice for Neil Woodford’s faliures? Investigation has been as transparent as Kim Jong Un’s North Korea By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 Over the past year, I’ve written 60 articles that refer to the busted … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: Eventually inflation will come through, interest rates will shoot up – and bond investors lose a packet By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 Deflation or inflation? It can’t be both and it matters massively to all of us which … Read more

Apple, which is the world’s most valuable company after breaking through the $2trillion mark, is also worth more than the value of all companies listed on the FTSE 100 index.  That means the iPhone maker, which in sterling terms has a market cap of £1.5trillion, is worth 20 times more than Unilever and Astrazeneca, the … Read more