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Trump dampens the spirits - but Diageo's future still looks bright, says ALEX BRUMMER

Diageo, home to Johnnie Walker, has struggled. Legacy problems in Latin America, where there was overstocking, were an early setback.

05.02.2025 2

Alex Brummer

The battle against Saba shows shareholder democracy at its best: ALEX BRUMMER

The effort by financier Boaz Weinstein (pictured) to decapitate Britain's £266bn investment trust industry so far has proved a bust.

04.02.2025 10

Alex Brummer

Labour's failure to support AstraZeneca's investment project is a grotesque example of failing to back Britain

ALEX BRUMMER: There can be no greater example of Labour's naive attitude to growth and business than its refusal to back an investment on Merseyside...

01.02.2025 3

Alex Brummer

Labour is harming Britain by waiving this terrible deal through, says ALEX BRUMMER

The Ofcom review of the Royal Mail focuses on how best to ensure a reliable delivery service for consumers amid the fast-declining volumes of post.

31.01.2025 1

Alex Brummer

Rachel Reeves' budget promised to fix the foundations but the reality is the foundations are crumbling before our eyes

The Chancellor yesterday tried to crawl out of the fiscal mire into which her own policies have swept her with a series of eye-catching pledges to...

30.01.2025 3

Alex Brummer

Melrose's plunder of GKN is a severe blow to the nation's economic security, says ALEX BRUMMER

If the government wants the UK to be a scientific and manufacturing champion, it must stop UK intellectual property escaping overseas.

30.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

China's dive into AI shows why Britain must stop letting its tech talent escape overseas, says ALEX BRUMMER

Among the lessons of the DeepSeek saga is never underestimate Chinese ingenuity. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has done it on the cheap.

29.01.2025 1

Alex Brummer

Reeves must stop the doom-mongering and back UK tech, says ALEX BRUMMER

There are alternative ways of looking at politicians who rapidly change the script. The traditional riposte is to describe it mockingly as a U-turn.

28.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

With anti-Semitism on the rise, this royal visit to Auschwitz by King Charles to could not be more timely

ALEX BRUMMER: In a world where anti-Semitism is on the rise, we must remember that Auschwitz represents the apotheosis of such hatred and do all we...

27.01.2025 9

Alex Brummer

The less well off are paying the price of Labour's Budget blunders, says ALEX BRUMMER

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have cast a pall over businesses which serve the less well off in society while middle Britain carries on spending...

24.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

Other trusts must not be complacent about fighting off US raider, warns ALEX BRUMMER

Herald Investment Trust boss Andrew Joy won't be breaking out the champagne yet despite an overwhelming victory over the US marauder Saba.

23.01.2025 1

Alex Brummer

The big Investors must speak up for UK share ownership and fight off the US marauders, says ALEX BRUMMER

Today's AGM of the Herald Investment Trust, the first of Seven being targeted by Boaz Weinstein (pictured), allows investors to be heard.

22.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

Crypto win for the White House - but the Trump meme coin raises ethical dilemmas, says ALEX BRUMMER

The soaring value of Donald and Melania Trump's crypto currency is one of the more bizarre aspects of his impact on the world of finance.

21.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

Saba's assault on UK trusts should never have been allowed to happen, says ALEX BRUMMER

Saba Capital, run by the aggressive activist investor Boaz Weinstein (pictured) has set its sights on seven UK investment trusts calling for major...

17.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

Bailey needs to lead from the front, as he did at the start of Covid, says ALEX BRUMMER

The Bank of England is not among the regulators invited to the Treasury to be reminded of their growth mandate enshrined in law in 2017.

16.01.2025 1

Alex Brummer

Losing the confidence of Wall Street will be a cruel blow, says ALEX BRUMMER

The New York Times has noted that in a fevered global rout of bonds, fuelled by hefty debt piles across the world's richest countries, Britain is the...

15.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

Windfarms won't be enough to power a UK tech revolution, says ALEX BRUMMER

The most upbeat speech of Keir Starmer's sojourn at No 10, with his embrace of AI, was intended to lift spirits during a torrid period on markets.

14.01.2025 10

Alex Brummer

Reeves' October budget did nothing to fix the foundations, says ALEX BRUMMER

One can understand why the Chancellor was happy to let her chief secretary to the Treasury take the heat for the crash in confidence in gilt-edged...

10.01.2025 8

Alex Brummer

Bleak outlook for the economy under Labour, says ALEX BRUMMER

When it comes to travel plans for Chancellors engulfed in market turmoil, it is a case of being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

09.01.2025 2

Alex Brummer

An utterly dismal economic picture ...and Reeves has only herself to blame

How deceitful, how stale, Labour’s election pledges look now. They promised the country change, growth and no tax increases for ‘working people’,...

20.12.2024 5

Alex Brummer

Bond gap with Germany at highest level in 34-years: ALEX BRUMMER

Among Britain’s great advantages at present, vis a vis European competitors Germany and France, is political stability. The election with a...

19.12.2024 10

Alex Brummer

Taxpayer will be at risk if the Royal Mail deal goes horribly wrong, says ALEX BRUMMER

Among the more bizarre aspects of the deal carved out by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky with the Government and Royal Mail is the use of a...

18.12.2024 1

Alex Brummer

Reeves must stop the squeeze and start making the tough decisions, says ALEX BRUMMER

When is a Budget not a Budget? If this (highly unlikely) were a Christmas cracker teaser then the answer would presumably be: When you call it...

17.12.2024 1

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The second coming of Trump horrifies many East and West Coast US liberals. Yet when older Americans examine their retirement investment portfolio,...

13.12.2024 1

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Trump dampens the spirits - but Diageo's future still looks bright, says ALEX BRUMMER

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The battle against Saba shows shareholder democracy at its best: ALEX BRUMMER

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Labour's failure to support AstraZeneca's investment project is a grotesque example of failing to back Britain

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Labour is harming Britain by waiving this terrible deal through, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Rachel Reeves' budget promised to fix the foundations but the reality is the foundations are crumbling before our eyes

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Melrose's plunder of GKN is a severe blow to the nation's economic security, says ALEX BRUMMER

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China's dive into AI shows why Britain must stop letting its tech talent escape overseas, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Reeves must stop the doom-mongering and back UK tech, says ALEX BRUMMER

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With anti-Semitism on the rise, this royal visit to Auschwitz by King Charles to could not be more timely

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The less well off are paying the price of Labour's Budget blunders, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Other trusts must not be complacent about fighting off US raider, warns ALEX BRUMMER

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The big Investors must speak up for UK share ownership and fight off the US marauders, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Crypto win for the White House - but the Trump meme coin raises ethical dilemmas, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Saba's assault on UK trusts should never have been allowed to happen, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Bailey needs to lead from the front, as he did at the start of Covid, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Losing the confidence of Wall Street will be a cruel blow, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Windfarms won't be enough to power a UK tech revolution, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Reeves' October budget did nothing to fix the foundations, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Bleak outlook for the economy under Labour, says ALEX BRUMMER

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An utterly dismal economic picture ...and Reeves has only herself to blame

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