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After the government announced it would issue £220bn-worth of gilts yesterday to help prop up public spending during the recession, it’s looking uncertain…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 23, 2009 2:56PM | No Comments »
Alastair Darling has delivered his Budget, and it’s quite the gamble – the government is set to borrow a staggering £606bn over the next four…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 22, 2009 3:18PM | 2 Comments »
Since buying Skype for $2.6bn, plus $530m in performance-based payments, eBay hasn’t found a way to make the free-phone-calls company fit…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | April 15, 2009 11:53AM | 1 Comment »
Tim Geithner’s plan for getting banks’ credit flowing again was released yesterday (despite more leaks than the latest hipster album), and investors gave it a…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 24, 2009 1:03PM | No Comments »
China, ever-less tentative player on the global marketplace, has lost some megayuans on the equities markets, after a series of bets made pre-crisis have come…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 16, 2009 11:59AM | No Comments »
Warren Buffett, after rather rashly announcing his imperviousness to financial meltdown back in October, has seen his fortunes dive, and now…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 2, 2009 11:37AM | No Comments »