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The City Speaks - 2009

Expert opinion is all very well, but if 2008 proved anything it is that it is about as valuable as a Northern Rock share certificate.

Spice Plc (SPI)

Periodically, we all know that it makes sense to rebrand your company in order to keep up with the times.

BG Group Plc (BG-)

Remember Sid? Well, he works in the chip shop round the corner from iBall's office.

C&C (CCR)

Summertime and the living is easy... it might be if you can sell it with ice. On the other hand it, it looks like a share that might be good value...

What does the City look like from the inside? - Jeremy Batstone-Carr

Commentator and analyst Jeremy Batstone-Carr, Head of Research at Charles Stanley Wealth, is as good as any to give us a worthy view.

Treasure Hunting (OMEX)

All right, all right, so it is a bit wacky. Treasure hunting? Oh yes. In times like these we need to take risks.

Rainbow over Canary Wharf

The vast monolith of the Financial Services Authority throws the shadow of a watchtower over the City.

Exuberance and irrationality - Professor Robert Shiller

Two days before Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the US Federal Reserve, coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' in 1996, Professor Robert Shiller warned him that market levels were irrational.

H&T Group Plc (HAT)

You could be forgiven for thinking pawn brokers went out with rickets, scurvy and the workhouse. But you would be wrong. Very wrong - and the reason for that is bad news.

Balfour Beatty Plc (BBY)