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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Ukraine and China fears drag down Asian markets

March 14, 2014

The Nikkei has hit a one-month low in Friday trading, sliding 3.3 per cent, as concerns over Chinese growth and the situation in Ukraine continue to weigh heavy on investors’ minds. There’s little to add in the way of comforting economic data, and the slowdown in the world second-largest economy and growing tensions over Ukraine [...]
The NHS needs to focus on patients not staff pay packets, says think tank

March 13, 2014

News this morning that only some public sector workers will see a one per cent pay rise next has riled individuals and unions alike. While Armed Forces, prison officers, members of the judiciary and some NHS workers will see a pay rise next year, not everybody will. And the rise – by only one per [...]
What you need to know before the US open

March 13, 2014

US stock futures are pointing to a slightly better open for markets today, and no doubt the slew of data just out – all of which is better-than-expected – means investors have plenty to digest. Bonds have slipped after the encouraging data, with the dollar gaining ground against the euro, too. Initial jobless claims fell [...]
Gold touches 6-month high on Ukraine and China fears

March 13, 2014

Rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia and growing concern about Chinese economic growth have seen gold climb to a six-month high today. The safe-haven asset rose 0.4 per cent to $1,373/oz, up for the third day in a row. It’s currently up 0.1 per cent. Tumbling exports and a recent bond default have sent equities [...]
3 ways Morrisons will change your supermarket

March 13, 2014

Morrisons’ extensive and rapid loss last year, and its foreseeable future profit warning, perhaps put it ahead of other supermarkets in terms of how quickly it needs to change. But the changes it needs and is planning to make affect all mainstream supermarkets. Indeed, the shares of all of them have lost this morning on [...]
Most public sector workers to get 1pc pay rise

March 13, 2014

Most public sector workers will get a pay rise of one per cent next year, the government’s confirmed. Ministers have said the 600,000 NHS employees who get automatic “progressional pay” increases, which are “typically worth over three per cent”, won’t get the additional one per cent rise. Around 400 senior NHS managers also won’t get [...]
Boiler room probe sees 21-year-old arrested

March 13, 2014

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said this morning that a 21-year-old individual has been arrested and interviewed in connection with an investigation into boiler room activity. The FCA’s working with the assistance of the National Crime agency and Kent police, who executed search warrants in London and Kent yesterday morning. The arrest was made [...]
Merkel: Russia’s is “the law of the jungle”

March 13, 2014

Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has accused Russia of invoking “the law of the jungle” in the Crimea crisis, warning that EU leaders are poised to take further action. If Russia continues on its current path, it’ll be a catastrophe not just for Ukraine and the EU, but for Russia as well, she said. In a [...]
Supermarkets are getting crushed

March 13, 2014

Morrisons has plummeted into the red, announcing a £176m pre-tax profit loss, having made a £897m profit a year earlier. The supermarket’s planning a £1bn property selloff over the next three years, in a bid to ameliorate the situation. It’s issued a dire profit warning, too, which has been described this morning on the BBC [...]
Shell slashing Americas upstream spending by 20pc

March 13, 2014

Ben van Beurden, the new chief executive of Shell, has said this morning that the challenged oil giant needs to “get a tighter grip on performance management”. As such, the firm’s announced it’s cutting spending on exploration and production in the Americas by a fifth, with profitability hit by losses in plays such as shale. [...]

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