Stockmarkets collapsing all across the world? Central Bankers derided in their counting houses, or, worse, menaced by trial and imprisonment? Grim fears of double dip recessions gripping investors? The end in Chaos and old Night of the longest bull run known to modern man?The year 2002 appears to have comprised all this, and more besides. By mid-October, the Dow was down around 30% on the year, ..
Do you know who the best people in your team are? Have you got a clear idea of how much they deliver? Many companies still proclaim that Our people are our most important asset', yet fail to treat that asset as valuable. In fact they often ignore their in-house talent, believing that the only way to get the top people is to seek elsewhere.Who Are Your Best People? destroys the widely-accepted ...
Technology stocks crashing, dotcom disasters, telecoms in trouble, banks reeling... Durlacher, Marconi, Railtrack... an overvalued Pound and a strong Dollar strangling domestic industry... a Euro with a huge question mark attached - these are the stuff of investors' nightmares, and in recent months they've come true. How bad was it for you?Chris Dunn's expert eye deconstructs the financial news ..
An old Secret Service plan of twenty and more years seeks completion, and Joe, Chief Executive of Martins Bank, is again called into the fray. With Russian infiltration of the Bank of England, and Martins on the brink of covert Russian take-over, the Service watches and controls from high up somewhere on th south Bank, planning every move of its field operatives with ruthless precision. But every
Ex-spy Joe reckons his luck has finally run out. Joe is Joint Deputy CEO at the multinational ABC Bank, along with Felix. But Felix is an agent from Joe's Berlin spying days. And the power-broking Felix is hell-bent on murder because of the betrayal of his father to the Stasi during a lucrative swindle across the Wall, organised by the Fat Man, Joe's old spymaster boss. Tough for Joe as Time ...
Annie and Gamma join forces with Annie undercover as a teacher at Gabby's, Britain's leading private school for young ladies. Tom Stone down on his luck again, but still writing the Needler, encounters an old foe in de Boys, and actively assists in the exposure of evil forces manipulating the world currencies. Emma encounters Tom Stone through Gaston's safe house where Tom for a second time ...
Joe is a disgraced big-shot City financier and former secret agent. Once extremely rich and successful, Joe is now broke, his reputation in tatters. With few options open to him, he survives from day to day by living on his wits and partnering the affluent ladies of the exclusive Liz Playfair Bridge Academy. His previous existence is a world away, hidden from all but a few.Now Joe receives an ...
Quondam sees the return of Joe, operational again, and former lives converging with old friends and enemies reappearing. Relationships twist and turn. Tom Stone and Emma? Joes and Emma? Annie and Gamma plotting to protect UK interests. The Financial Chronicle and Bank of England interplay with the political imperatives of the day including the Moscow influence with the elusive Leadon finally ...
In the cut-and-thrust world of banking, a private bank can be the most dangerous place in the City to work, especially if a very rich and determined family own a quarter of it and decide things aren't being done to their liking.Joe, head of Trading and Investment, a very private character with a colourful past, finds out to his cost that he stands in the way of the Maitlands. Once his colleague ..
On paper, it may be the closest run thing the markets have ever seen. But it could all end in disaster for Brownovia well before next Spring. Such looks to be the correct view for investors to adopt ahead of a testing Winter for New Labour, now in its death throes. The next few months will see Chancellor Brown making his final bid to land the UK Premiership, parachuting into No 10 without a ...
As the US army storms into Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's treasure leaves town secretly in lorry convoy, en route for Europe's banks across the hills by night. Awaiting the hoard's arrival eagerly in Venice is a motley bunch of conmen, hoods, card sharps and, inevitably, a London stockbroker, Patrick the Beautiful. In tow, playing his bridge innocently each night with the gang, is JOE, former British .
Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's contrarian 2003 bullmarket was crafted with meticulous care out of paradox. It may have hit singular points every now and then but that's markets for you - the 2003 bullmarket was conjured into being against the odds and out of the mists of investor unknowing by Greenspan's team of all the talents at the Fed. During 2004, Election year in the US, Greenspan faced a ...
This is the sixth, perhaps last, in the series of Good Trader market analyses. Since 2000, the bulletins have provided a running weekly commentary on the activities of the Bank of England and other central banks. This has never happened before in the 300 year history of the Bank. At the centre of a world of its own creation, the Old Lady has always sought vigorously, and until now successfully, ..
DEADLINES, the first in Chris Dunn's Contango series, traces the bid of raw young City reporter, Tom Stone, to crack the secret of a spectacular City swindle mounted by Wolf de Boys, the brilliant young financier.Tom has big problems: his relationship with his upwardly mobile girlfriend, under pressure from her snobbish parents, is dying a slow death; a mysterious caller, whose deep voice somehow
Two ambitious women, Bank of England Deputy Governor Penny Scrope and Bank MPC member Jane Coeur, are running for the Square Mile's top job - Governor of the Bank of England. They fell out at school years ago over the same man. By an apparent twist of fate, they play ferociously competitive bridge together in the same ultra-chic West London club, Savage's. Mysterious cadres, partly Washington ...
'Commedia', No 5 in the Contango series, is the next page-turning instalment in the saga of Joe, ex-British Intelligence agent and banker. Still struggling to come to terms with his espionage life in Berlin before the Wall came down, Joe is installed at Pugh Park in Hampshire with the glamorous Perdita. He is also trying to land a big banking job in the City, in the course of the bitter takeover .
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