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EXCLUSIVE: MURDOCH CONTROLS ‘BANK’ FOR SUPER RICH (and poor)

If you register with Britain’s Financial Services Authority, you must be in the process of setting up an investment bank or something, right? And if you are doing that, then it must be for doing dodgy deals for squillionaires, More…

Putting up the paywall

Murdoch said he was going to charge readers for online news, and here’s how he plans do it.

Presenting The Times and The Sunday Times paywall.

From a News International press release issued on Friday: More…

Deal or no deal at Intl Power?

It is 40 minutes since trading on the London Stock Exchange got under way on Monday morning — and still no statement from either International Power or GDF-Suez on the Sunday Times bid report, reproduced in part below. More…

Goldman Sachs abandons kittens (really)

A fresh PR disaster for Goldman Sachs.

The investment bank stands accused of abandoning kittens. Really.

Kittens, we might add, that could look like this:

The Villager, a New York newspaper, More…

Masters of the universe return

It is not even a year since the passing of Lehman Brothers (RIP) and already banker worship has made an unwelcome return.

The Sunday Times, for one, devoted an editorial and pages four and five to Barclays and how a certain Bob Diamond took it into the top league of investment banking. More…