Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Shell/BG Group worries - part 5

I see Royal Dutch Shell's £35 billion purchase of BG Group has been approved by over 80pc of the  Anglo Dutch company's shareholders.

So I guess the Telegraph's recent scaremongering about the deal collapsing, led by Jupiter fund manager Ian McVeigh, was just, err, scaremongering....

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

RBS - it never rains but it pours...

It would appear things tend to all go wrong at once for taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland.

This morning James Hurley, an old Telegraph colleague, revealed on the front page of the business section in The Times that RBS was under pressure to strip companies of their assets to improve its balance sheet. Here is a link to James's piece: