By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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What you need to know before the open – 17/01

January 17, 2014

European markets are set to move higher today after marginal gains in US equity futures and Asian stocks. We've got UK retail sales for December this morning, which'll reveal more about shopping over Christmas. And in Asia, the Nikkei dropped in trading today, after US corporate earnings damaged investor sentiment. ETX Capital #MorningCall FTSE [...]
Any Other Business – 17/01

January 16, 2014

SIR HOWARD Davies, the UK’s chief runway picker, rose an unlikely chortle at a Runways UK event yesterday in Tower Hill. The head of the government’s aviation commission was recommending the UK set up an independent “noise watchdog” – similar to one in France when he said, “I know it’s unusual to say we should copy [...]
How Goldman Sachs led one man to breakdancing glory

January 16, 2014

B-boy Silverback. That's the breaking name of Steve Graham – a 55-year old private equity exec who learnt his dancing skills while an analyst Goldman Sachs in the early 1980s. Graham, who runs Philadelphia-based Graham Partners, was originally known as "Vanilla Shake", in days that preceded the advent of Vanilla Ice, reports Business Insider. Back [...]
US inflation jumps to six-month high

January 16, 2014

US inflation jumped, as expected, to 1.5 per cent in December year-on-year – the highest it's been since June – from 1.2 per cent in November 2012 to November 2013. Item prices increased across the board, although they remained modest, with the jump attributed to a temporary rise in energy over the month. This is [...]
Why luxury means more than one thing in China

January 16, 2014

China's wealthy have been buoying luxury brands for years, with high-end Western retailers like Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Burberry touting their wares across the upmarket shopping districts of Shanghai and Beijing. But China's just seen the steepest cut-back on spending in at least five years, according to a survey by the Hurun Report – [...]
The 10 biggest challenges facing small businesses in 2014

January 16, 2014

Business confidence blossomed at the end of 2013, and things have got off to a good start for firms this year too. Figures from the British Chambers of Commerce showed that confidence in a broad-based UK recovery is growing, and net optimism flew to 71 per cent at the end of the year. When it [...]
Holidays to the UK grew by a whopping 12pc in 3 months

January 16, 2014

It turns out that more and more people are choosing the UK for a holiday. Numbers from the Office for National Statistics show that visits were up over 12 per cent in the third quarter of 2013 – that's 9.9m overseas visitors who have picked Britain as a travel destination. When compared to a year [...]
These festive victors have found a way of winning online and in store

January 16, 2014

Argos, Primark, Halfords, Homebase, Dixons and Ocado: the raft companies who saw sales leap over the Christmas period, and present a stark contrast to the big names (M&S, Tesco and Morrisons) that reported gloomy – and sometimes grim – results last week. It's become something of a cliche to keep emphasising the need for transition [...]
Here’s how Argos made a fierce comeback at the end of last year

January 16, 2014

Argos has become the latest digital winner at Christmas, as more companies label their online offering the strand that brought them festive sales success. Internet and mobile technology sales buoyed the high street shop's Christmas performance, despite a "challenging consumer environment", owner Home Retail Group said this morning. In a separate statement, the parent company confirmed [...]
What you need to know before the open – 16/01

January 16, 2014

European markets are expected to open a shade higher this morning, after yesterday's five-and-a-half-year high. US inflation numbers are out later today and are predicted to show that prices rose in December – following in the footsteps of yesterday's increased PPI figures. Yesterday's Beige Book survey also reinforced a continued pick up in the economy. [...]

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