Enjoy The Foxtons Ride, But Beware The End Of The Road

It was hardly surprising that Foxtons was welcomed onto the London Stock Exchange with such enthusiasm. It’s one of the best-known estate agents operating in London and Surrey, where house prices are booming once more and rents also remain sky-high. … Continued

Alliance News Careers – Editorial Assistant Required

Alliance News is seeking an editorial assistant to further expand its news team. The successful candidate will be reliable, organised and enthusiastic about financial services or journalism, and previous experience, while advantageous, is not essential as full training will be … Continued

Larry Summers, the Steve Ballmer of Central Banking

For highly-successful business and financial leaders such as Larry Summers and Steve Ballmer, it must be gallling to see the stockmarket rejoice at your departure from the scene. But what are the longer-term implications for the market? The announcement over … Continued

Panther Securities Chairman Gives Bankers A Dressing Down

ALLNewsBlog was a little surprised Wednesday to see the normally dry-as-dust Regulatory News Feed enlivened by the interim statement from Panther Securities PLC. The property investment firm’s results were worth reading for the numbers alone, as pretax profit multiplied to … Continued

Forward Guidance Or Central Banking 101?

As Mark Carney speaks to UK business leaders at the University of Nottingham in his first public address as governor of the Bank of England, ALLNewsBlog hopes he puts more meat on his recent attempt at forward guidance. The concept … Continued

Alliance News Team Scores First Exclusive Interviews

Launching full-scale production in the midst of UK earnings season, the Alliance News team was never going to be wanting for interesting company news to cover over the past two weeks. The ALL Professional service is still ramping up, but … Continued

Alliance News Team Prepares For Launch

The Alliance News team is mostly in place now, so the Blackfriars newsroom is getting louder.  Happy news about the #RoyalBaby provides the background soundtrack as our journalists prepare for an equally rare event: the birth of a completely new … Continued

Royal Mail to put the British back into UK shares

Whatever the hard-nosed investment case for the coming slate of UK government privatisations, ALLNews sees one clear benefit.  Royal Mail, Lloyds and RBS will make London equities just that little bit more British again. It will be comforting to see … Continued

Shades of 1936 – Murray Rally for UK Shares?

Sunday’s Wimbledon final had its share of long rallies – 32 exchanges of the ball between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic in one particularly memorable point – but will the victory by the first male British Wimbledon champion since 1936 … Continued