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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Melrose Industries shares take a hit after limited strategy success

March 5, 2014

Melrose Industries reported profit before tax of £226.1m in 2013 – up 48 per cent from a year earlier. Its strategy of “buy, improve, sell” has seen operating margins improve markedly, said the firm. Shares slid on the news, down over six per cent by mid-morning. Operating profit rose 20 per cent to £274.9m. Revenue [...]
Any Other Business – 05/03

March 5, 2014

SOME of the City’s bankers are jetting off to sunny Madrid today for the launch of the European Diversity Awards. London’s finest could be collecting gongs for Company of the Year, Employee Network Group of the Year or Marketing Campaign of the Year, to name a few. “It is great that so many business leaders, [...]
Most British motorists wouldn’t use a driverless car

March 4, 2014

The Geneva Motor Show opens today, bringing with it the car industry’s latest attempts to show off driverless vehicles – but British motorists look unlikely to adopt the new technology any time soon. Swiss firm Rinspeed is exhibiting the XchangE, a concept car based on the Tesla Model S that allows passengers to sit facing [...]
3 things Putin probably hadn’t bargained for

March 4, 2014

It seems Vladimir Putin, upon whom everyone’s been keeping more than half an eye, is backing off. Following the beating the Russian stock market and currency took yesterday, the Russian leader's been speaking at a news conference. He told reporters this morning that there’s no – current – need for military force in Ukraine, that [...]
Video: The City’s poshest pancake race

March 4, 2014

Earlier today, spectators gathered for what has to be a contender for London's poshest pancake race – certainly the City's (remember parliament had one earlier). The 10th Anniversary Inter-livery Pancake Race, held at the Guildhall, saw four livery companies – the car men, the cutters, the insurers and the launderers – speed their battered charges [...]
How 4 banks are cutting quarter of a million staff

March 4, 2014

The true scale of British banks’ world-dominating ambitions in the boom years and devastating collapse in the crisis is still only now becoming clear – the latest figures show the big four banks have cut 200,000 jobs since the credit crunch struck. And another 50,000 or more are set to be cut in the next [...]
Steve Ballmer gets called “Bill” at Oxford

March 4, 2014

Microsoft’s former chief exec and dancing man Steve Ballmer appeared at Said Business School, Oxford today to talk in front of a packed audience of students. He refrained from doing one of his signature dancing entrances but certainly wasn’t lacking in energy, characteristically whooping, clapping enthusiastically and calling people “dude” where possible. But even his [...]
What you need to know before the US open

March 4, 2014

US stock futures have rallied, following open markets that are responding to the cooling situation between Russia and Ukraine. The US has said it’ll provide $1bn in loan guarantees to Ukraine, to help restore financial stability. The Treasury will also send “technical advisers” to help the country in its negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. [...]
How Ukraine’s unrest will affect prime London property prices

March 4, 2014

World shares, particularly in banks, insurers, miners and energy stocks, have been hit as a result of the political tension and unrest in Ukraine. But what would be the cost of an economic fallout or any potential sanctions by the West against Russia have on the London property market? Joshua Raymond, chief market strategist of [...]
Why is Venezuela’s capital more expensive than London?

March 4, 2014

London doesn’t make the top 10 in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest assessment of the world’s most expensive cities (which may be a surprise to anyone who’s trying to buy a house): Singapore, Paris and Oslo and are some of the predictable pricey towns that do. But readers might be surprised to [...]

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