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Inflation will raise its ugly head
This year will prove surprisingly benign, as sentiment turns towards a more sustainable-feeling recovery in 2014. But first, it's only right to reflect on how my predictions for 2012 turned out.
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'Fiscal cliff' averted: Markets rally but 'there are more problems to come in...
The Telegraph's Head of Business, Damian Reece, says the jump in the FTSE 100 in the wake of the US deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" is "a welcome start to the year".
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My 2012 stock tips are up 15pc. Here are my shares for 2013
Last year is generally considered to have been bad for the economy, what with a double-dip recession, but stock markets tell a very different tale about 2012 and it's against this backdrop that my...
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Pedestrian lenders cannot fund the risky ambitions crucial to recovery
There is a lot more credit available to business but it's the wrong kind of credit.
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We may soon need Europe more than Europe needs us
For as long as I have been in work I've been writing about Europe's single currency in one way or another, from the Exchange Rate Mechanism to a eurozone break-up.
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Will Verizon and Vodafone grow to love each other or is it divorce?
Vodafone was created from epic deals. It may end, as an independent entity, as a result of one, too.
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Why it's right to stay in the EU
Business has not always got it right on Europe. Many high profile names campaigned to take us into the single currency which would have been a disaster.
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Sainsbury's needs to change, but just won't admit it
If J Sainsbury is leading the supermarket race then it's slowing down with a stitch and the gap with the panting and wheezing pack behind is narrowing.
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Marc Bolland is running out of time to fix M&S
Marks & Spencer is being out-Marks & Spencered by the UK high street, primarily by the John Lewis Partnership's combination of department stores and Waitrose supermarkets. Next and Primark are...
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Ending our 'gateway to Europe' status would be a big loss for Britain
Employers have, so far, been unequivocal in how they see the UK's relationship with the European Union.
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HMV failed because innovators succeeded
HMV's strategy of being the "last man standing" when it came to high street music and film retailing was obviously flawed.
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Pascal Soriot is ready for AstraZeneca to start taking risks again
Pascal Soriot has administered what looks like shock therapy for a new chief executive of a major drugs company. He's culled AstraZeneca's head of research and head of commercial operations on the same...
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Our visa rules for Chinese visitors do us more harm than good
The increase in Chinese tourists visiting attractions outside their borders will be one of the more significant economic phenomena of the first half of this century.
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Rio Tinto should stop buying and start mining
Rio Tinto needs a new strategy when it comes to acquisitions - to stop doing them would be the best one.
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On housing, what the Bank giveth, the Bank can taketh away too
We are a zombie nation, at least when it comes to the housing market.
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Davos 2013: British companies show 'lack of ambition'
Davos 2013: UK companies are punching below their weight in exporting to growth economies because of a lack of ambition, according to a new report from Deloitte.
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Business could cope with an EU exit, but could the politicians?
David Cameron delighted exactly no one here in Davos at the World Economic Forum where UK employers were left cold by his landmark speech on Europe.
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Davos 2013: British schools should use Chinese students to teach Mandarin -...
British schools should urgently employ some of the thousands of Chinese students studying in UK universities to teach children Mandarin, according to one of the world's most respected business school...
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Britain must commit to building an economic future with China
Here at the World Economic Forum, George Osborne chose to highlight London's success as a centre for trading China's currency as an example of the City's continuing importance not just to the UK...
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Only animal spirits can deliver recovery now
Boris Johnson could not have chosen a better day to present his plan for economic recovery to UK business leaders gathered for lunch at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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