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Comment: A woman's touch at the banks?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WHAT have the bankers ever done for us, to paraphrase the line from Life of Brian. Well, for one thing they furnish us with seemingly limitless copy as we pick over what damage they have done to the global economy, how they did it and the fall out.

Comment: Listening in to bankers' illuminating conversation

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:00:00 GMT

WHEN I was in banking, I once had a colleague who had worked in the Stratford branch of a clearing bank.

Comment: No party will be able to take the pain

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

ARE the markets right to give a vote of no confidence in sterling? As I write, it is down against the US$ for the sixth day at US$1.49 – its lowest for 10 months.

Comment: Is there no way to solve the UK debt conundrum?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:00:00 GMT

IF YOU are an average household and save £1 out of every £10, you'll spend nine years bringing your wealth back up to the average of the past 20 years.

Comment: History can teach us all so much

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

BILLIONAIRE financier George Soros recently said that gold, currently at a historical high of around US$ 1,100 an ounce is the ultimate asset bubble.

Comment: If rates go up, you read it here first

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

NINE months ago I remarked that gold was over US$900 an ounce and that some mavericks were even predicting the price reaching US$1,500.

Comment: Working harder, for more days

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WELCOME back after the break – if you are back after the break that is. The reason for that caveat is that January is the worst month for sick leave, according to HR consultants Mercer.

Comment: Don’t let the silly beggars get you down

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SIR Liam Donaldson has resigned as the chief medical officer, so Christmas has come early to those of us who do not subscribe to his grim Calvinist view of life.

Comment: Full refit is needed, not a patch-up

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:00:00 GMT

PICTURE Barak Obama’s predecessor, having just taken up the presidential reins, sitting down to type at a computer, only to clutch his head and emit a Homer Simpson-style ‘d’oh’!

Comment: No reason for keeping bank bail-out under wraps

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT

IT has been quite a week for the release of hitherto secret information. For one thing, the Iraq War Inquiry has opened and will run and run, until we are as heartily bored by that conflict as by Bloody Sunday.

Comment: What were lessons of falling wall?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

WHAT were you doing when the Berlin Wall came down? It does not seem that long ago, so it’s a bit of shock to realise we have just hit the 20th anniversary.

Comment: Will we soon see an age of austerity?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I AM sorry, but I have to remind you – if the shops haven’t already – that Christmas is coming. Have you been trying to hunt out presents early and beat the crowds? No, me neither.

Comment: Does the EU deserve Mr Blair?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT

TWEETERS are being invited to submit questions for the spirits of departed celebrities including Michael Jackson and William Shakespeare as part of the world’s first Twitter seance.

Comment: Balancing act - with population

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

WORK until you drop - or at least until you are 66 - is the new proposal from the Conservative Party.

Comment: Rail plan is blow to North East

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

OUR hopes of getting a high-speed rail line on the East Coast between London and Edinburgh would appear to have been deal a fatal blow - or two fatal blows.

Comment: Downside of paying off your debts

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:01:00 GMT

IF you are an average household and save £1 out of every £10, you’ll spend nine years bringing your wealth back up to the average of the past 20 years.

Comment: Mutuals have lesson for banks

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT

THEY learn nothing and forget nothing, it was said of the Bourbons. The same is true of banks. Well, actually, banks just learn nothing.

Comment: Record gold prices are not always good news

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:00:00 GMT

I ALWAYS like to keep an eye on the gold price as it can drop so many hints as to what is going on in the rest of the economy.

Comment: Borrowing milestone a leap in dark

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT

ASIGNIFICANT milestone was passed this week. I’m not sure what road this particular milestone is on, but I’m certain it’s significant.

Comment: Market for beer has gone flat

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:00 GMT

UK pub-owner Punch Taverns has blamed bad weather during most of the summer for disappointing profits.