They are both known for their athletic and physical prowess. So Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez put the pedal to the metal in order to inspire their followers. The 50-year-old Hustlers star and 44-year-old former New York Yankees player posed for a cute selfie on a bike ride posted onto Instagram on Monday morning. Scroll … Read more
The recently posted offer document by £30billion mining giant Anglo-American for the purchase of Sirius Minerals reads like any other. The buyer underlines the generosity of its bid noting the big 34.1 per cent premium to the price on the day of the announced deal, and an even bigger uplift of 61.7 per cent if the … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s Easyjet row and Virgin Atlantic’s search for a bailout places a laser focus on airline industry By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 17 May 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 17 May 2020 Shareholder democracy is as important now as at any other time. That is why Stelios … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Reasons to be cheerful as Britain bounces back after three years of Brexit uncertainty By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 24 January 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 24 January 2020 After the sound and fury of the last three-and-a-half years, the Brexit bill became law this week when it … Read more
The Skype dismissal of Rico Back as chief executive of the Royal Mail should not come as a shock. The very notion of the chief executive of one of the nation’s biggest front line employers sitting it out in Switzerland while postal workers have been on the battleground in the Covid-19 epidemic was unacceptable. Royal … Read more
Time is running out for the stock market bears to be proved right, says ALEX SEBASTIAN: Will this be the biggest bull trap ever or one that never happens? By Alex Sebastian for This is Money Published: 07:45 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 07:45 BST, 15 May 2020 Those of a bearish persuasion have … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Britain cannot afford to turn a valuable international earner like Lloyds of London into a pariah By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 Britain’s insurers have not won many friends during the Covid-19 pandemic. The reluctance of Hiscox to pay … Read more
The contrast between stock markets and what is going on in the real economy of output, trade and jobs could not be more stark. Equity indexes, as the late Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson observed, are not the best of economic indicators. He famously quipped ‘the stock market has predicted nine of the past … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Debt-aholics like Liberty Global need to be weaned off a system destabilising the global economy By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 11 May 2020 | Updated: 08:35 BST, 12 May 2020 John Malone’s Liberty Global is nothing if not brave. Unveiling a £31 billion merger between Virgin Media and … Read more
Grim economic news is something we have had to get used to in the past two months but yesterday was something of a body blow. Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement that he was extending the jobs retention scheme until October is the most ominous of all the amendments and additions to the bailout for the economy … Read more