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 US open

April 22, 2014

Futures have stayed flat in the US, despite the pharma-driven gains seen this side of the pond and Netflix jumping on its earnings report. The Ukraine crisis continues to trim investor risk sentiment, and the euro’s dipped to a two-week low against the dollar, ahead of manufacturing data from France and Germany later this week. [...]
Down with property – lending to the real economy is coming back

April 22, 2014

The crunch in business lending could be over at last, Bank of England figures show today, with non-real estate firms leading the way. British firms borrowed an extra £100m in February – small in the grand scheme of things, but a positive result. Net lending is down 2.1 per cent on the year and 0.5 [...]
What does GSK’s “transformational deal” mean for the rest of the sector?

April 22, 2014

It looks like pharma M&A frenzy may have returned, with the slew of activity over the Easter weekend buoying European markets as big players see substantial gains. A $16bn (£9.5bn) three-part tie-up between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis will see the former buy the latter’s oncology unit, along with the setting up of a global consumer [...]
Win tickets to Chesterton Humberts Polo in the Park

April 22, 2014

POLO fans would do well to get themselves down to West Brompton or Barons Court tube stations this morning, or indeed hang about in Fulham and Chelsea for the day, because there’s an opportunity to bag tickets to Chesterton Humberts Polo in the Park’s Chukka Friday and a cheeky bottle of champagne. Look out for the Chesterton [...]
What you need to know before the open

April 22, 2014

A higher open for European markets is expected this morning, following the S&P 500 posting its best winning streak so far this year. With markets over here closed yesterday, it finished higher for the fifth day in a row. Investor focus will likely be on the latest earnings reports from companies both sides of the [...]
Novartis and GSK agree $16bn oncology deal

April 22, 2014

Another pharmaceutical deal this morning. Swiss drug maker Novartis has announced that it’s doing an exchange of certain assets with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), as part of its company overhaul. It’ll buy the latter’s oncology unit for $14.5bn (£8.6bn), with up to $1.5bn also being paid to reach an agreed development milestone. The deal will also see [...]
Want to improve education for the world’s poorest? Here’s how

April 16, 2014

Private schools in developing countries achieve better learning outcomes than their government counterparts, a new government study has found. The Department for International Development’s report looks at schooling in 27 countries from Afghanistan to Nepal, Sierra Leone to Yemen, taking evidence from numerous smaller studies. It found that teaching is considerably better in private schools, [...]
Households are full of hope now inflation is falling

April 16, 2014

Politicians are tiptoeing around the news that wages are growing faster than inflation – nobody wants to be first to say the cost of living crisis is over, after years of soaring prices. But households themselves expect to feel better off over the next year, just in time for the election. People don’t feel better [...]
The real casualties of the supermarket price wars

April 16, 2014

The threat posed by the hard discounters on Britain’s big four retailers has been well documented. Tesco’s chief executive Philip Clarke today described his discount rivals as “formidable” as he announced further plans to slash prices beyond the £200m already set aside in February. But new research shows that the biggest unrecognised casualties of the [...]
What you need to know before the US open

April 16, 2014

US stock futures suggest a higher open for US markets, following European counterparts and after Yahoo’s reporting of earnings that beat estimates. The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent yesterday, with earnings from Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson outweighing fears around the Ukraine crisis. On the data front, housing starts rose 2.8 per cent last [...]

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