By: Jessica Morris

I write about energy and industrials for City A.M. I'm particularly interested in geopolitics, energy policy and, of course, the ever lively oil markets.

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Ferrari moves into the fast lane with US IPO

July 23, 2015

Luxury Italian sports car maker Ferrari is set to move into the fast lane after filing for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Read more: Fiat Chrysler to spin-off Ferrari Its parent company, Fiat Chrysler, didn't say how many shares it plans to sell or at what price however the new [...]
Pound falls after UK retail sales in June disappoint

July 23, 2015

The pound fell 0.12 per cent against the dollar to $1.5595 after British retail sales unexpectedly tumbled in June amid broad-based declines in sales of food, household goods and petrol. Data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed retail sales fell 0.2 per cent in June, down from 0.2 per cent growth a [...]
Tube map shows how many calories you can burn walking between stations

July 22, 2015

One way commuters can beat the seemingly never ending stream of tube strikes is to walk, jog or cycle between stations – and now they can work out how many calories this will burn thanks to the below tube map. Dr Wayne Osborne's research found that most inner-London tube stations are around two minutes apart by [...]
Parents are paying their children in digital currencies

July 22, 2015

Toddlers play on iPads, kids as young as five are learning to code in school and now this increasingly tech-savvy younger generation parents are being paid in digital currencies by their parents.
Financial Conduct Authority chief exec Martin Wheatley says he’s leaving with “a sense of unfinished business”

July 22, 2015

Outgoing chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority Martin Wheatley has said that he's “disappointed to be moving on and I do so with a sense of unfinished business”. Wheatley was speaking at what will be his last annual public meeting with the financial regulator, following announcements that he will step down in September. Earlier [...]
Pound jumps as Bank of England rate-setters vote unanimously to keep rates on hold in July

July 22, 2015

The pound rose 0.45 per cent against the dollar to $1.5624 this morning after members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) struck a more hawkish tone in minutes of a meeting published today. While all nine members voted to hold interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent at its meeting [...]
Boeing says world needs 558,000 commercial airline pilots over the next 20 years

July 21, 2015

There's good news for anyone who secretly harbours dreams of being an airline pilot – Boeing reckons that the world will need 558,000 new pilots over the next 20 years, four per cent more than forecast a year ago. The "pilot and technician outlook" said that airliners will spend more than $5.6 trillion to buy [...]
Treasury to cut Bank of England monetary policy committee meetings from 12 to eight

July 21, 2015

If you've been getting fed up with months of MPC updates with no change – and let's face it, after six years of the same update, who isn't – then there's some good news. The number of monetary policy committee meetings is about to be reduced to just eight per year, down from 12. This [...]
Public sector borrowing falls as income tax receipts hit highest level since records began in 1997

July 21, 2015

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said income tax receipts rose by 2.5 per cent in June to £11.5bn, the highest level since records began in 1997. Read more: July Budget 2015 at a glance At the same time, corporation tax receipts jumped 13.9 per cent to £1.7bn, also the highest amount on record. The figures, [...]
IG Group share price slides as chief executive Tim Howkins resigns

July 21, 2015

Shares in IG Group slid 4.5 per cent to 771p this morning after Tim Howkins said he will retire from his role as chief executive and a director in October, as the company revealed that its full-year profits had been dented by the Swiss franc crisis earlier this year. The financial spread betting firm said Peter [...]

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