Dan Davies is a managing director at Frontline Analysts, and the author of Lying for Money, and co-author of The Brompton.Every publication of financial statistics ought to have the same picture on the cover — Goya’s “The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters”. It would help…

The path to net zeroNicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.3tn Norwegian oil fund, said it will become a more vocal shareholder and plans to vote against companies that fail to set a net zero emissions target, overpay their top leaders, or lack diversity on…

Credit Suisse provided an emergency $140mn loan to Greensill Capital based partly on invoices to companies who deny ever doing the business stated on the documents.The Swiss bank provided the loan in October 2020, less than five months before the collapse of Greensill, a supply…

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player No other place like home. It’s a small town. We just want to be able to take care of our own. Banks come and they go. Why this one is leaving is not being explained. People…

Mars has embarked on a drive to convince developing country consumers to eat more chocolate, claiming it is on track to double the value of its confectionery sales in emerging markets in the five years to 2024.The word’s largest confectionery maker has developed local products…

Britain’s industrial unrest has been branded the second winter of discontent (although not a patch on the mass walkouts that hit the UK in 1978-79) and is set to peak in the coming days, with rail and postal workers, NHS staff and driving instructors (yes,…