Hints and tips:
...My colleague Helen Thomas argued as much last month. It would have had some complications, but there are clear benefits from lower financing costs over projects’ lifetimes....
...In the briefing this morning (premium subscribers can sign up here), Cat Rutter-Pooley rations her enthusiasm for the reforms: “Just don’t call the overhaul Big Bang 2.0....
...Essential comment before you go My colleague Helen Thomas picks over BP’s earnings yesterday — and argues that the climate plans it laid out alongside bumper profits are its best defence against a windfall...
...Essential comment before you go Buoyant festive trading capped a good couple of years for supermarkets, my colleague Helen Thomas writes. But, she notes, the mood may be changing....
...Daniel Thomas has the full story. Beyond the Square Mile Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of conspiring to defraud investors by a jury in a criminal fraud trial....
...I have no idea if she’ll succeed, and in any case, City Bulletin by Cat Rutter Pooley is the newsletter you want for that (you can sign up here)....
...Essential comment before you go Helen Thomas writes on the government’s push to get UK pensions money into private equity (at almost any cost)....
...The EU is no longer the UK’s largest export market for financial services, Daniel Thomas reports, after trade with the bloc dropped last year following Brexit....
...Helen Thomas has bad news for you....
...Energy correspondent Nathalie Thomas has more details....
...If you need a recap on BT bid talk — and why it’s probably wishful thinking — do check out this column from my colleague Helen Thomas. If you disagree, tell me why at citybulletin@ft.com....
...And the second is from my colleague Helen Thomas on how the sale of the UK’s flagship vaccine manufacturing centre smacks of short memory syndrome. It needs to attach safeguards, she says....
...Chief UK business correspondent Daniel Thomas has the full story here....
...My colleague Helen Thomas wrote a column on the deal’s difficulties earlier this week which is well worth a read....
...Daniel Thomas has the full story....
...Our chief business correspondent Daniel Thomas reports that four out of five bosses said both the economy and their own businesses would improve in the next 12 months, while optimism about the country’s...
...Essential comment before you go Helen Thomas tackles the slow bleed that is Brexit and the City in her column today, while regulation correspondent Laura Noonan points out the difficulties that banks are...
...Essential comment before you go Not comment (sorry, again, I know this keeps happening) but if you haven’t already read it, do make time for this account from our chief UK business correspondent Dan Thomas...
...Sylvia Pfeifer and Nathalie Thomas have the full story here. Also out today are updates from insurer Direct Line and luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland....
...Essential comment before you go My colleague Helen Thomas takes on pre-emption rights, which she calls the “untouchable core of London market governance”....
...The event gets the Helen Thomas treatment here. But self-indulgently, I’d also suggest reading this column I wrote a year ago....
...Thomas Hale and Edward White have the full details of the latest twist in the Evergrande tale....
...Ovo Energy is preparing a bid for rival energy supplier Bulb, our correspondent Nathalie Thomas reports....
...Essential comment before you go Helen Thomas A nimble, digital neobank has arrived on the UK banking scene. It has a $3tn balance sheet, and it’s JPMorgan Chase....
...And political pressure is mounting on energy companies, as anatomised by FT City columnist Cat Rutter Pooley. Where to hide?...
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