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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 .

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 ...

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 ...

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, ..

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 ...

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 ...