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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BAE shares take off on new Typhoon price deal

February 19, 2014

BAE Systems has said today that it’s confirmed a pricing escalation for the massive deal to supply Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia. The news, which erases some of the uncertainty hanging over the company, has seen shares climb almost two per cent this morning. The so-called Salam deal, has been in the ether [...]
Pets at Home confirms £275m IPO

February 19, 2014

Pets at Home has this morning unveiled plans to list on the London Stock Exchange. The group wants to raise around £275m through the flotation, to reduce debts and cash out its private equity owner KKR and “certain other” shareholders and members of the management team. Although targeted mainly at institutional investors, employees will get [...]
Credit Agricole announces dividend after swinging to profit

February 19, 2014

A better performance in its retail banking and a tax rebate helped Credit Agricole return to profit in the fourth quarter. The French bank said it’ll propose to pay a dividend on its full-year results for the first time since 2010, having beaten its own solvency targets. The dividend will be €0.35 per share. Net [...]
What you need to know before the open

February 19, 2014

European bourses are set to open slightly lower this morning, with Bank of England minutes in focus, followed by Fed minutes later on. Today’s UK average earnings data is expected to stay unchanged at 0.9 per cent for the final quarter – still an improvement but a large gap when it comes to proximity to [...]
Any Other Business – 19/02

February 19, 2014

IT WAS flotation madness yesterday as we saw games whizz King, bargain retailer Poundland, and Danish business services firm ISS file for their IPOs. But there was a backstory to King and ISS’s flotations that raised a few smiles in the City. As we reported back in October, financial PR group Powerscourt lost its client King [...]
Here’s how the emails you send at work could betray you

February 18, 2014

Plenty of us take time umming and ahing over how to phrase something in an email. But it may not surprise you to know that changes you make consciously are by no means the whole story. A paper, led by professor Paul Taylor of Lancaster University, looked at how changes in language choice in emails [...]
What you need to know before the US open

February 18, 2014

US stock futures point to a mixed open, following a three-day weekend. The first economic data in this week show the Empire Manufacturing Index, which gauges business activity for manufacturers in New York, fell from 12.51 to 4.48 in February. Analysts had expected a reading of 8.5. Outlook’s better, though – companies surveyed are expecting [...]
Germany’s gloomier investor outlook is a temporary blip

February 18, 2014

Mixed messages for Germany this morning? According to the country’s ZEW survey, despite an improving climate, economic sentiment among German investors isn’t as cheerful as most thought, with the main indicator decreasing by six points to 55.7 in February. Although still at a high level, the slightly gloomy result stems from uncertainties created by disappointing [...]
Booming housing market could see Help to Buy scaled back

February 18, 2014

UK house prices continued their forward march at the end of 2013, with the capital pulling even further ahead from the pack and the average house price hitting £250,000. Figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown London house prices rose 0.9 per cent in December, putting them more than a fifth higher than [...]
UK inflation falls to 1.9pc in January

February 18, 2014

UK inflation figures have shown further signs of improvement in the recovery, falling below the Bank of England’s inflation target for the first time since November 2009. Measured by the consumer price index (CPI), prices rose by 1.9 per cent in January, below the two per cent expected. Month-on-month, CPI dropped 0.6 per cent. According [...]

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