Based on interviews with more than 1,600 business executives around the world, the barometer highlights the change in business sentiment and differences between regions and sectors
Scrap the jubilee? Why not Christmas too?
The governor of the Bank of England has pointed out that Britain’s recorded economic growth in the second quarter of 2012 will be depressed by the plethora of bank holidays. Within three months there is a four-day weekend for Easter, …
Liverpool is whiplash capital of Britain
Liverpool has emerged as the whiplash capital of Britain, where the government has recorded more than one compensation claim for neck injuries sustained in a traffic accident for every 50 residents. A “heat map” drawn up by the Financial Times …
Are NHS funds being diverted to the rich? Well, a bit…
There has been speculation recently that the government is planning to divert millions of pounds in NHS funds from deprived urban areas in the north, to leafy, Conservative voting constituencies in the south. This stems from health secretary Andrew Lansley’s recent comment …
Facebook is going public, but what is it really worth? This interactive calculator illustrates how variations in key assumptions can change the potential market value and share price of an IPO
Routes into and out of Afghanistan
How Nato could withdraw its military hardware from Afghanistan