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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This is how far Tesla’s Model S electric car will get you across the UK

June 9, 2014

This weekend, Elon Musk brought his electric car to the UK. Obviously we already have electric cars, but the Model S – the luxury saloon of Tesla, Musk's company – is a cut above the rest. And in a matter of months, it'll get you across most of the UK and Europe. Speaking at the [...]
Elon Musk: “I didn’t think SpaceX or Tesla would work”

June 9, 2014

Billionaire tech titan Elon Musk – the brain behind Tesla electric cars, a project to colonise Mars and Hyperloop – has more ideas in a year than most people in a lifetime. But speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, the serial entrepreneur admitted that he hasn’t always had faith that things will come [...]
Lloyds prices TSB IPO below book value

June 9, 2014

Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it’s pricing shares for TSB at between 220p to 290p. That’ll see the bank valued at £1.275bn, at the mid-point, when it floats on the stock market at the end of this month. The initial public offering will see 125m ordinary shares sold – 25 per cent of TSB’s [...]
How New York’s using its old food to heat homes

June 6, 2014

The Big Apple's upped the ante when it comes to innovative ways to produce energy. New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, is now asking 100,000 households to give up their food waste to heat more than 5,200 homes, reports Bloomberg. The idea is that it’ll be picked up, separate to other household rubbish, and carted [...]
Pictures: A new kind of rock’s been discovered – and it’s formed from plastic

June 6, 2014

A study has found that new rocks have formed out of melted plastic. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario have been analysing the material which forms when melted plastic mixes with sediment and lava fragments to create a completely new kind of rock. The plastiglomerates, as they’ve been dubbed, have so far only been found [...]
Luxury brands’ share prices are falling today. Here’s why

June 6, 2014

Yesterday's shock results from luxury stalwart Prada have had a knock-on effect this morning. The brand lost over six per cent, hitting a two-year low, after announcing a surprise fall in quarterly sales and suggesting a possible slashing of its full-year guidance. And this morning, it's dragging down other major luxury retailers with it. Shares [...]
Pope sacks entire board of Vatican’s financial regulator

June 6, 2014

The Pope has chucked the entire board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog, in the latest move to overhaul the city-state’s banking practices, following a corruption scandal and clashes between members. The terms of the five people currently on the Financial Intelligence Authority’s board were due to finish in 2016. The all-Italian board is now being [...]
What you need to know before the open

June 6, 2014

European shares are expected higher this morning, still buoyed by the action announced by the ECB yesterday, despite calls that it’s all too little, too late. In focus are nonfarm payrolls in the US, with unemployment expected to have crept up. German industrial output moved back into growth in April, confirming that the powerhouse economy [...]
Game opts for low-end valuation of £340m

June 6, 2014

Game Digital will sell its shares for £2 apiece, it's been announced. That means the company, which has made a pretty impressive comeback since going into administration two years ago, has a valuation of £340m, as it prepares to return to the stock market. That is at the lower end of what some had hoped [...]
City & Gild: Is baring all bad for your brand?

June 6, 2014

Last week I found myself on a short-haul flight to Sweden, and forced to break with my long held belief that travel should be conducted in total silence when the person sat beside me tried to strike up conversation. Now my normal mode on these occasions is to smile politely, shrug my shoulders as though [...]

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