DAY 11 – With just two housemates left in the competition to find Britain’s best loved City columnist, the situation is getting tense.
It’s Pratley versus Warner. The Guardian takes on the Independent in the battle to lay claim to the most popular business pundit.
But what’s this? J Warner, only just cleared from accusations of shameless click-rigging, is taking some kind of break – dare we suggest it, a holiday. The Indy man has written to the Click or Clunk authorities:
I’m taking time out of the house all next week. Don’t bother to come looking. Even Sniffer of the Yard wouldn’t be able to find me. Yet I vow to return assuming I’m not evicted in my absence. By the way, along with Reece, I seem to be the only one left who bothers with a Saturday column these days. Surely this qualifies us for extra clicks?
Nice try, Jeremy – but Reece is already a goner. And we’re not hanging around for you either.
So it’s sudden death. Click to vote for your favourite and who you want to be crowned the Click or Clunk winner 2007.
Nils Pratley on stock market resilience
The “equity cheat sheet” reads like this: Weak economic data? The US Federal Reserve will cut rates. Strong data? The economy’s sound. Bank loses £4bn in sub-prime mess? Bad news is out of the way. Oil price spikes? Great for producers. Oil falls? Great for consumers. Dollar plunges? Multinationals like that. Dollar rises? Inflation will fall.
You get the picture: every possible financial development can be, and is being, wrestled into an argument for why share prices should rise.
Jeremy Warner on holiday – with link to that much-vaunted Saturday column
