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Gas on the rise

If it wasn't bad enough that the Government wants to make it more expensive to sell our houses – Home Information Packs became compulsory today for properties of all sizes – now it's going to become more expensive to keep them too. Centrica, owner of British Gas, hinted this morning that it's going...

The week according to MT

Our 60-second guide to the best of the business news: Merv swerves as the high street creaks, Sir Keith Mills shows the value of Loyalty, and a Sunderland nightclub bans its best customer...

China eyes miner

Baosteel, China's biggest steel company, looks like it could emerge as a rival to BHP Billiton in the fight for Rio Tinto. Mining companies may not be the most glamorous in the world, but with a price tag that could top the $200bn mark and a political row brewing in Australia, this takeover battle is...

Health and safety in 'not killjoys' shock

The incoming president of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Europe’s largest industry body, has raged against all those who have ever criticised his profession as 'bureaucratic busy-bodies, red tape robots or tick box Tonys'. So that’s presumably just about all of us, then…

VC gets Gore for green push

If you’re looking to boost your environmental credentials, there’s no hotter name to be associated with than Al Gore, the world’s most famous climate-change-campaigning ex-vice president. So US venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers will have left their rivals green with envy after their...

Murdoch in the news

He might never give interviews, but Rupert Murdoch is apparently the most high-profile public company figure in the UK, according to a new survey. Now all he needs to do is buy a football club and we’ll never hear the end of him.

The week according to MT

Our 60-second guide to the highlights of this week’s business news – high-fliers are brought painfully to ground, records are threatened in Asia, and Gisele gives a new meaning to the term 'economic model'…

More flexible parenting

MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...

The world’s biggest company

Hands up who’s heard of PetroChina? Well if you haven’t come across the name before, you should hear it a lot more now. The Chinese state-owned oil giant was valued at more than $1 trillion after its first day of trading on the Shanghai stock exchange, making it the world’s largest company by market...

The week according to MT

Our 60-second guide to the highlights of this week’s business news - from the boardroom, to the court room, to the beauty salon...

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