The new titans of wall street

The good times are rolling again in Tokyo, where the Japanese stock exchange has extended its record rally, fuelled by what UBS calls the “Takaichi trade”, says MarketWatch. But if new PM Sanae Takaic

Issue of the week: private dysfunction? A brief ...

CITY

Petrofac goes bust: Around 2,000 jobs in Scotland are at risk after North Sea oilfield services group Petrofac filed for administration, says Philip Georgiadis in the Financial Times. The trigger was

Credit markets are “partying like it’s 1999”, investor Jim Chanos tells Bloomberg. Chanos, a short-seller famous for predicting the collapse of Enron, thinks that private credit is being sold to inves

Gary Stevenson has earned the moniker The People’s Economist thanks to his no-bullshit approach to finance but, as he explains, there’s so much more to him than the ‘tax the super rich’ campaign for which he’s become famous