Pricey ‘tech’ IPOs like the imminent £1.2bn Moonpig float are a big gamble for investors: ALEX SEBASTIAN ask if pigs might fly? By Alex Sebastian for This is Money Published: 07:44 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 07:55 GMT, 29 January 2021 To many, the prospect of a greeting card business being valued at £1.2billion … Read more
Fans of the raunchy BBC series Industry cannot but be astonished about how dealing room culture turns freshly-minted graduates into trading fiends in a matter of days. Now, ‘Generation Y’ is taking its revenge on a Wall Street and City habit of fixing the money-making machine in its favour. The social media site Reddit, a … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: BT fails the test of care… so it’s no surprise that investors are regarding it with disdain By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:57 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:24 GMT, 26 January 2021 BT shares have staged a minor recovery since their nadir last August when they briefly fell … Read more
Changing the retail guard: Online fashion pioneers come of age with landmark takeovers, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 22:40 GMT, 25 January 2021 Boohoo’s takeover of the Debenhams brands and platform, together with the exclusive talks by Asos to buy Sir Philip … Read more
He’s been busy working on the NHS frontline throughout the coronavirus pandemic. And Dr Alex George has revealed that he has had to to join the ‘glasses crew’ ahead of his 30th birthday, in a new snap shared to Instagram on Saturday. The former Love Island star, 29, posted a playful selfie of him smiling … Read more
Alex Salmond Inquiry orders key evidence including WhatsApp messages from SNP officials are released in unprecedented move Linda Fabiani wrote to former first minister after he refused to come to Holyrood He was needed to speak on February 2 but citing health concerns over Covid-19 It comes as MSPs issued notice to Crown Office calling … Read more
Alex Salmond Inquiry orders key evidence including WhatsApp messages from SNP officials are released in unprecedented move Linda Fabiani wrote to former first minister after he refused to come to Holyrood He was needed to speak on February 2 but citing health concerns over Covid-19 It comes as MSPs issued notice to Crown Office calling … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: By opening sluice gates of big spending, a huge appetite for ‘more’ – as Dickens caricatured it in Oliver Twist – has been encouraged By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:59 GMT, 22 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 22 January 2021 Every morning the nation awakes to a cacophony of … Read more
Should your gas boiler break down or there be an interruption to energy supplies in the midst of the bleak winter pandemic, don’t expect an immediate response from your British Gas engineer. At a moment in time when unemployment queues are lengthening, insolvencies surging and the NHS is working to capacity, the GMB union is … Read more
Ruth Langsford has reached out to Dr Alex George with a moving message after he opened up about his grief and sadness following the tragic death of his brother. The former Love Island star, 30, admitted that ‘grief hit [him] like a brick’ on Wednesday as he struggled with the loss of his younger sibling Llŷr, … Read more