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ALEX BRUMMER: Rishi Sunak is on a tricky flight path as coronavirus picks his pocket before first budget By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 The collapse of Flybe into administration is a crisis for the airline’s millions of passengers and its … Read more

Amid the carnage on world markets caused by fears surrounding the coronavirus health catastrophe, not all shares were deeply in the red. On a day when the FTSE 100 dropped 3.2 per cent and shares of Willie Walsh’s International Airlines Group plummeted 8.4 per cent, stock in Britain’s aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce was the great … Read more

SIMON LAMBERT: Will the Chancellor be brave enough to get rid of Britain’s 60p tax rate? By Simon Lambert for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 06:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 | Updated: 06:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 It’s high time that Britain got rid of its 60p tax rate, but will the new Chancellor be brave enough? The … Read more

Markets were still reeling yesterday following the turmoil on Monday due to fears over coronavirus, and we are not out of the woods, either in terms of the health crisis or as investors. No one, not even the world’s leading epidemiologists, knows how this is going to unravel. What we do know is that coronavirus … Read more

Halifax hiked my home insurance by 29%, so could it tell me why? SIMON LAMBERT on trying to pin down his loyalty penalty By Simon Lambert for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 06:00 BST, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 12:59 BST, 20 February 2020 At the start of the year, I was sent a renewal letter by my … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Equifax scandal shows the dangers of giving Huawei a share of Britain’s 5G network By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 10 February 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 10 February 2020 Boris Johnson and members of the National Security Council who voted glibly to allow Huawei Technologies a 35 per … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Google must tackle the unscrupulous firms taking advantage of its lax advertising rules By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 4 February 2020 | Updated: 09:12 BST, 5 February 2020 Google needs to wake up to the fact that unscrupulous firms are routinely taking advantage of its lax advertising rules. … Read more

The recently posted offer document by £30billion mining giant Anglo-American for the purchase of Sirius Minerals reads like any other. The buyer underlines the generosity of its bid noting the big 34.1 per cent premium to the price on the day of the announced deal, and an even bigger uplift of 61.7 per cent if the … Read more

The drumbeat for a cut in interest rates is building, with money markets betting on a reduction as soon as January 30 when the Monetary Policy Committee meets. Some 62 per cent of traders have placed deals which point to a quarter of a percentage point cut in the bank rate to 0.5 per cent. This … Read more