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May 16, 2011
US regulators are understood to have been the stumbling block which forced Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) to pull out of the battle for control of NYSE Euronext. Jeremy Grant, FT ...
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May 12, 2011
Video debate: From US special forces killing top terrorists in night time raids to hi-tech battles in cyberspace – is this the new warfare? And in UK politics, for all the talk of a new style of ...
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May 12, 2011
Defining SEFs: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission still differ on what a "swap execution facility" (SEF) should look like. So what are the ...
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May 11, 2011
Ralph Atkins, Frankfurt Bureau Chief, talks to Jurgen Stark, a member of the executive board of the ECB, on why debt restructuring will not help Greece and why the ECB is raising interest rates ...
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May 10, 2011
Colin O Shea, head of commodities at Hermes, on why it is still a good time to invest in commodities. He says the recent price falls were a healthy correction and commodities remain a good way to ...
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May 10, 2011
The battle to takeover NYSE Euronext has a crucial bearing on the future of London as a global financial centre. Lynton Jones, chairman of Bourse Consult, explains to Jeremy Grant, why he thinks ...
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May 09, 2011
The UK banking industry has dropped its long-running legal dispute over widely mis-sold loan insurance. Barclays and HSBC have this morning followed Lloyds' surprise decision last week to ...
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May 09, 2011
A series of desirable devices has seen the maker of the ipad leapfrog Google in terms of the value of the company’s brand
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May 08, 2011
Geoff Cooper, chief executive of Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders' merchant, talks to Ed Hammond, construction reporter, about why the latest figures from the ONS, which show ...
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May 08, 2011
In this week’s View from the Top, Geoff Cooper, chief executive of Travis Perkins, the UK's largest builders' merchant, talks about his surprise at the latest construction data ...
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May 08, 2011
Geoff Cooper, chief executive of Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders' merchant, plays long/short, betting on the news agenda from AV to house prices and oil.
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May 08, 2011
David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P Indices, says ETFs are finally taking off as defined contribution pension plans start to embrace them. Alongside this expanding market ...
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May 06, 2011
The results for the UK’s local elections could spell the end of the ruling Lib-Con coalition well before its maximum five-year term, says Philip Stephens, FT senior political commentator. He ...
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May 06, 2011
Anxious to avoid a repeat of January’s violent riots, Algerians have been slow to take to the streets.  Eileen Byrne reports from the Algerian border on simmering unrest ...
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May 06, 2011
A rout in commodity markets has raised anxiety; a similar tumble preceded the 2008 financial crash. Lex’s John Authers and Edward Hadas discuss whether the recent fall is an overdone technical ...
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May 05, 2011
A year on from the precipitous plunge of the Dow Jones that wiped $1,000bn from the US stock market in a matter of minutes, Jeremy Grant, FT Trading Room editor, talks to the FT’s Seb ...
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May 05, 2011
The steady rise in commodity prices has stalled. Is that signalling a similar slowdown to last summer’s, where a 23 per cent fall in copper starting in April heralded a dip in equities? James ...
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May 05, 2011
Lousy property lending and mis-selling of payment protection insurance, for which a £3.2bn provision is being made, continue to haunt Lloyds Banking Group. Lex’s John Authers and Richard ...
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April 27, 2011
Is the Royal Wedding a symbol of greater UK social mobility? In the week of the Royal Wedding, Analysis Review debates whether social mobility has improved in the UK since the Second World War, ...
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April 27, 2011
The old stock market adage says 'Sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger’s day', and more often than not it's a good strategy. James Mackintosh, investment ...
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