HOWZAT

Unsettling flashbacks

On the surface, Yorkshire Building Society’s rescue takeover of Chelsea Building Society has unsettling echoes

Between a rock and a hard place

Investors are incensed at what they see as the Government’s willingness to ride roughshod over other shareholders’ rights

Nuclear battle of the sexes

Twenty-five years after Greenham Common, British women remain opposed to the construction of nuclear power plants

Tempus: Sage Group ... Numis ... Huntsworth

Sage Group pleases with its reassuring predictability ... Numis Corporation sits on its money ... Huntsworth goes to Washington

Beware the mirage of markets built on sand

From Dubai to Moscow to Shanghai, the world's financial centres stand and fall not on their losses but on their governance

Invisibles’ final vanishing act gets the hard sell

The old British Invisibles, one of the oldest financial services lobbying bodies, is to be merged with TheCityUK

Tempus: Assets help Shaftesbury fight downturn

The landlord's London portfolio is skewed towards shops and restaurants which have benefited from increased tourism

Let the board decide on bankers' pay

Ministers have insisted that it is not the amount of bonuses that they want to control, just the structure

Federation born amid rivalry of ruling families

Dubai is not controlled by a council of equals but an alliance of families or tribes - and Abu Dhabi calls the shots

Bringing plans down to earth

Adam Posen suggests property taxes such as stamp duty and capital gains tax should be pegged to the housing market

M&B’s bar ban makes sense

M&B booted out four non-executive directors after accusing its biggest shareholders of trying to seize control on the sly

Dubai troubles cast doubt on fundraising

Emirate's debt default rollercoaster is placing enormous uncertainty on future initial public offerings and other issues

Stock picker with a fund of musical creations

Not only does Anthony Bolton have a new job picking high-growth Chinese shares from Hong Kong, he has just released a CD

Defenestration must not rule yearly vote

HSBC, BP, AstraZeneca and Vodafone already operate annual re-election for all and the sky has not fallen

Tempus: Numbers cannot tell Aberdeen's story

The fund manager's gross outflows added up to £29.8bn, roughly equivalent to the stock market value of Tesco or Barclays

Darling should beware of debt default

The possibility that the state-owned Dubai World might actually default does not mean that the state of Dubai will

Is it time to drink up and move on?

Adam Fowle, the new M&B chief executive, wants to focus on running the company’s hostelries efficiently

The end of the world will hit your turnover

How can it be a bad business decision long term to take better care of our planet and be more mindful of its resources?