Sir Stuart Rose should have known the score 2008-05-04 06:01 - It would be easy to caricature the row over Sir Stuart Rose’s £100,000
investment in Martha Lane Fox’s karaoke bars as an absurd fuss over nothing.
With Britain’s biggest clothing retailer heading into a nasty downturn, this
is surely no time to nitpick about the minutiae of personal financial
dealings between two of its board members. This is a time to be wholly
focused on shifting pants, not ticking boxes.
High & Low Finance: Determining Who Rides the Lifeboat 2008-05-04 06:01 - As the mortgage crisis spilled over into a credit squeeze threatening Wall Street, the government tried to prevent disaster while not helping those who don?t deserve it.
Controlling crops goes against the grain 2008-05-04 06:01 - To describe it as opportunistic doesn’t do justice to the Thai Prime
Minister’s proposal: a rice cartel as food riots erupt over West Africa and
the Philippines, another Asean nation, goes begging for supplies.
Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs 2008-05-04 06:01 - Since the recession of 2001, the employee’s average cost of an annual health care premium for family coverage has nearly doubled while incomes have come nowhere close to keeping up.
Square Feet | Blueprints: All Over the Dial, and Under One Roof 2008-05-04 06:01 - Clear Channel has brought its five New York-area music stations from separate offices in Manhattan and New Jersey under one roof, but each station’s offices will maintain distinct identities.
What’s an Investor to Do if a Star Firm Stumbles? 2008-05-04 06:01 - Clients of asset management firms that have lost much of their glitter, like Private Capital Management, are faced with the quandary of whether to bail out or hope for better days.
The Rebates Might Not Go to the Mall 2008-05-04 06:01 - Go ahead and spend ? it’s your patriotic duty. That’s one way to look at the government rebates that are just starting to arrive in taxpayers? bank accounts and mailboxes.
