IMF's botched involvement in Greece attacked by former watchdog chief
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
Fund must ease off on austerity and push for debt write-offs to heed lessons of failure in Greece, warns ex-director of the IMF's evaluation office
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Rip-off annuity broker fees could be capped as FCA plans crackdown
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
A cap on non-advised annuity fees could boost savers' pensions by thousands of pounds and has been welcomed by the Pensions Minister
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch sues HP for $160m over fraud claims
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
HP has accused Mike Lynch and Autonomy's chief financial officer of accounting fraud that forced it to write down the value of the deal by $8.8bn
Alliance Trust finds a complex answer to a simple problem
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
Although Alliance Trust's chairman was very gracious in her defence of Katherine Garrett-Cox, there is no amount of good grace that can bill this as a positive move
Alex cartoon: October 2, 2015
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
How Alliance Trust's long battle with activists has unfolded
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
Katherine Garrett-Cox thought she had beaten the activist investors, but she has now lost out to Elliott Advisors
Volkswagen crisis: Car giant removes 4,000 new diesel cars from showrooms in Britain
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
The stock is being returned to a UK factory plant where it will be fitted with "fix" software to improve emissions
Looming storm trims gains made by commodity stocks
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
Despite making ground in early trade, oil and mining stocks' gains were trimmed as oil prices slipped.
Why half a million Russians could go bankrupt today
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
From today, Russia is allowing citizens to file for bankruptcy but, ironically, the high cost of doing so may put some off
Who put Mark Carney in charge of our climate policy?
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago.
Like it or not, the whole of modernity is based on hydro-carbons. We'll never convince anyone to leave fossil fuels in the ground