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While for many it was total shock followed by plummeting share prices, speculation and a rise in reported hate crime. There were winners post referendum both short term and in the months following the vote. Many UK businesses chose to adapt or turn the speculation to their...

Some have likened the Libyan Investment Authority’s attempts to sue Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale for more than $2billion to the Biblical battle of David and Goliath. Now things have got even more complicated. The lawyers originally representing the LIA in the case have...

Sir John Major’s speech to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation was an interesting step by the Conservatives last night. On the one hand, you have the man who famously gave us the concept 22 years ago of a new vision of Europe with “Britain, France and Germany all clearly in the...

You might be forgiven for thinking that the ‘No’ vote has been rather complacent, given the sudden flurry of activity this week. The minute the Sunday Times published the results of a YouGov poll, we had a flow of opinions and politicians trying to recapture the...

There’s a depressing familiarity about the tensions between Russia and the West at the moment. While it’s not yet up there with the very real fears that I had growing up in the seventies and eighties that bombs could start falling at any moment, I must admit to a...

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Russian business after the sanctions imposed by The European Union last Friday, Russian business was dealt another fierce blow today with the groundbreaking  $50 billion ruling against The Russian federation for expropriating...

As the tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague draws to a close a ruling is expected at some point this week, former partners have expressed confidence the court will rule in their favour. The claim was launched in 2005 by shareholders of GML which was the...

The UK Land Registry has reported a general trend of rising house prices in England and Wales in 2013, averaging at some 3.2%. Looking at London alone, that price rise is a startling 10.6%, compared to a fall of up to 10% in the North East. The average house price in the UK as a...

  Fresh concerns about household debt levels have been raised this week by the Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focusses on the UK’s standards of living. Their research suggests that an estimated 600,000 people currently need to use over half their net income to...

The Airports Commission isn’t due to make its final report until 2015, but in a week where the future of Heathrow has already been in the news, it has produced a short-list of options for expanding the UK’s airport capacity. Set up in 2012 and headed up by Sir Howard Davies, the...