Blog posts tagged "Lord Myners"

December 14, 2009 6:17 pm 12 Comments

Have I just witnessed the death of party politics? If so the general election could be dull, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

November 5, 2009 9:27 am No Comments

I have blogged before about the role “unproductive” trades are playing in the current stock market boom. The FT today reports Goldman Sachs only posted one day’s trading loss in the past quarter – the quarter before saw two such days. On 35 of the 65 days of trading in the last quarter the company [...]

November 3, 2009 11:10 am 17 Comments

As Lord Myners admits that 70 per cent of all share dealing is undertaken by computer systems that allow a trader to hold a share for a nanosecond before selling, Jon Snow asks: is it a good thing to have achieved the socialist ideal of a nationalised RBS bank?