Global Economy
WPP losing its status as proxy for economy
With its national and international advertising clients selling products from toothpaste to cars, WPP has long been seen as a bell...
Investment
Building a brave new world of investment on ghosts of the past
Forget the fiddling of the books at BT, the brown envelopes at Rolls-Royce, the shabby governance at Sports Direct. Let’s look i...
Investment
Morrissey aims to put human face on personal investment
Helena Morrissey, one of the most influential women in the City, has ruled out a move into politics to take a job at Legal & G...
Global Economy
It’s been a woman’s world for jobs
It would have been easy for me to focus this week on the latest projections from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and De...
FOREX
Financial scandal? Make mine a forex
Big fines and civil claims are predicted after investigations into foreign exchange manipulation, says Jonathan Ames...
Stock Trading
The low-cost funds that even Warren Buffet is backing
Exchange traded funds, or ETFs, are a growing force in global stock markets. We set out what you need to know...
Taxes
Bookshops pay tax at rate ‘11 times higher than Amazon’
British bookshops pay 11 times the rate of corporation tax paid by Amazon, according to a report that has prompted outrage from bo...
Taxes
Donohoe to resist French ‘equalisation tax’ proposal
The Irish government will fend off French-led attempts to nobble Irish corporate tax receipts at a meeting of EU finance ministers...
Insurance
Gibraltar duo gear up for insurance deal
Insurers based in the British overseas territory to enter the Irish market...
FOREX
Banks wary as maverick regulator wades into forex inquiry
The maverick New York regulator that humbled Standard Chartered over Iranian sanctions breaches has jumped into the global investi...