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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Tesco share price is falling after sales plummeted again

June 4, 2014

Another set of falling sales figures from Tesco this morning. The UK supermarket giant has reported a 3.7 per cent drop in like-for-like sales – 3.8 per cent when including petrol. That does mark the store’s third drop in a row but is, however, better than the four per cent decline analysts were expecting. Revenues [...]
What you need to know before the open

June 4, 2014

European markets are expected lower this morning, as stock futures were seen falling. Nervousness is building ahead of the European Central Bank’s anticipated measures, which’ll be revealed tomorrow. Regulator Ofcom has announced further imposed cuts to the cost of mobile phone calls, with a new charge control that’ll see calls to different networks fall to [...]
Any Other Business – 07/06

June 4, 2014

The Westminster road block ahead of today’s Queen's speech didn’t stop the crowds from attending the Taylor Wimpey Parliamentary Tug of War last night, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. City teams included Axa, Norton Rose, Jamieson Corporate Finance and AllianceBernstein with the latter taking on Norton Rose in the aptly named City Slickers match [...]
What you need to know before the US open

June 3, 2014

Following a record close yesterday, US stock futures suggest a slightly lower open for markets today. The upbeat sentiment’s still there, but investors are finding fewer reasons to push things higher. Meanwhile, European stocks have dipped, with the euro gaining, as investors await the European Central Banks policy meeting later this week. Corporate news AT&T [...]
Guess which is the UK’s most congested city? (It’s not London)

June 3, 2014

According to new stats compiled by TomTom, the most congested city in the UK isn’t London, it’s Belfast. London comes in a close second, but Belfast outstrips the capital, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow – all cities with far higher populations. It’s home to just 286,000 people, and 480,000 in the metropolitan area, but traffic delays [...]
The GPS luggage tags that could change how you travel

June 3, 2014

Flights are notorious when it comes to keeping luggage safe, particularly for those who travel by plane regularly. With passengers understandably going to great lengths to distinguish their belongings – from gaudy stickers, oversized labels and, in some cases, spray paint – a technological step forward seems sensible. That’s the thinking of several leading airlines, [...]
How England’s World Cup performance hits pub share prices

June 3, 2014

Another nugget of research into the impact England’s World Cup performance could have – this time, it's about pubs. Equiniti, the share registration services provider, decided to collate the share price drop the UK’s listed pub chain operators saw at the point England crashed out of previous tournaments. As one might expect, the quicker we've [...]
Tax expensive homes more, European Commission tells UK

June 3, 2014

George Osborne’s been urged to up council taxes on higher value properties today – by the European Commission. The commission’s said that, in order to keep house prices under control, the UK also needs to build more houses and trim the Help to Buy 2 scheme – where the government advances 15 per cent of [...]
What you need to know before the US open

June 3, 2014

A lower open is expected for European markets this morning, as investors look towards inflation and unemployment numbers for the Eurozone. The prospect of new intervention from the European Central Bank, expected to be announced at its policy meeting this week, has been buoying market confidence. Asian counterparts moved higher in trading today, on the [...]
Average UK house price hits record high as Help to Buy fails to take off in London

June 3, 2014

UK house prices rose by 11.1 per cent annually last month, according to the latest figures from Nationwide. That takes the cost of an average UK home to £186,512 – overtaking the previous peak reached in pre-crisis October 2007 for the first time. In April, the average cost was £183,577. The building society’s house prices [...]

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