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An uphill struggle.(interview of Mervyn King governor of Bank of England)(Brief article): The decision by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to give an interview to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, in Radio Four's File on Four special, may turn out, when the dust is settled, to be the longest exit interview in recen ...; Tags: Bank of England, Robert Peston; Research articles 2007-11-15

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Peston finds his voice and now the City's ears are burning: When Robert Peston became business editor of the BBC in February 2006, his future stardom could hardly have been foreseen. After a 23- year career in newspapers, including stints at both Independent titles, The Sunday Telegraph and the Financial Times, he had never worked in television. He suffered from a...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Northern Rock Plc.; Research articles 2008-10-12
You can bank on him: INTERVIEW ROBERT PESTON From breaking news of Northern Rock's woes to revealing Lloyds TSB's takeover of HBOS, Robert Peston has held centre stage in the unfolding drama of the financial crisis. The BBC business editor reveals his methods to Ian Burrell During the Falklands War of...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., HBOS Plc., Northern Rock Plc.; Research articles 2008-09-29
The Friday Round-Up: The boss is coming! Look busy. Here is the City offers some tips on "how to look busy" even if you're not... But don't let yourself become too busy, lest it drive you to an early grave. Apparently, a senior car engineer at Toyota in Japan was clocking up an...; Tags: Marketing, Strategy, 3G, Social Networking, Boss, Industry, U.K., Card, Advertising & Promotion, Joanna Higgins, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Cellular Phones; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Hat Tip: Overpriced Players Create a "Football Bubble": Tip to Robert Peston's blog: the Premier League is creating a "football bubble" in transfer pricing that looks a lot like the kind of financial raving that preceded the credit crisis. Just as an influx of money from Asia, the Middle East and Russia was partly to...; Tags: Financial, Player, Abu Dhabi United Group, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-09-02

Final frontiers on the Today programme MEDIAWATCH: RADIO 4 Today programme presenter Jim Naughtie must have wondered if there was something in the water at the BBC on Friday. First Robert Peston, the BBC business editor famed for his, er, quirky verbal delivery, began his piece on the huge rise in the Chinese market by saying: "It's...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING; Research articles 2007-05-13
The Friday Round-Up: Chancellor Darling's foisting a panel of crack advisers on the Bank of England to raise the alarm about any Northern Rock-like dangers. The changes, says Darling, are to "restructure it [the BoE] so that one of its core purposes is the maintenance of financial stability". Right. What's more, the...; Tags: BNET UK Staff, Finance, Internet, Financial Planning, Blogging, Free Trade, Investment, Taxes, Chancellor, Advisor; Blog posts 2008-06-06
The Friday Round-Up: Let's start with enterprise. Bad Entrepreneur explains the value of setting goals that are challenging, but reachable. The advice is sound: focus on a particular earnings figure per week. For BE, It started out of necessity. He set a figure that he needed to get him out...; Tags: Financial Accounting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Robert Peston, Andrew Charalambous, Refuge, Aunt, Financial, Joanna Higgins, Finance; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Banks Bailed Out -- But What About Fat-Cat Bonuses?: The status switch at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs marks the end of an era on Wall Street -- and the most "sweeping intervention in financial markets since the Great Depression." "Now that the US taxpayer is in a formal sense underwriting Goldman and Morgan Stanley, their...; Tags: Bank, Federal Reserve Board, U.K., Financial Services, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-09-22
It will be some time before the first national newspaper goes up in cyberspace: On Sunday the Sunday Times carried some very exciting news: Britain was to have its first totally on-line daily national newspaper. Existing national newspapers have their own internet versions - so does The Spectator - but what was planned was an all-cyberspace financial publication. According to the report, two high-flying...; Tags: America, FINANCE, financial, Financial Times, INTERNET, Lewis; Research articles 1999-08-28
Will Murdoch get ITN?: Much depends on Tony Blair, but, says Robert Peston, the Dirty Digger's relationship with the government is not what it was IN July 1995 a senior Labour official ushered me to a corner off the Burma Road, the Commons corridor where the parliamentary lobby has offices. `We've got an important...; Tags: Government, ITN, News Corp., SOFTWARE, TVs; Research articles 2000-11-18
twilight zone, The: A new BBC documentary shows lobby journalists to be indistinguishable from those they write about, says Robert Peston THE darkling world of Westminster journalism and Downing Street media-planning started playing host to BBC television cameras just a few days after I quit as the Financial Times's political editor in January...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Government, journalist, lobby, MARKETING, media, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2000-07-15
BAA approves takeover bid from Ferrovial: report: LONDON AFP — British airports operator BAA has approved a 10-billion-pound (14.5-billion-euro, 18.7-billion-dollar)takeover bid from Spanish construction group Ferrovial, the BBC in London reported. The corporation's business editor, Robert Peston was quoted as saying that BAA, which has also been in talks with another takeover suitor, believed to be...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, BAA, British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., London; Research articles 2006-06-05
Public carries Rock.(reports of Northern Rock PLC)(Brief article): According to an analysis by BBC business editor Robert Peston, the taxpayer is subsidising the troubled Northern Rock to the tune of AGBP1000 a person or AGBP30bn. This is a scandal. And, what is more, according to chancellor Alistair Darling, it will take until...; Tags: bank, Bank of England, chancellor; Research articles 2007-11-08
Will the Second Bank Bailout Help Business?: "This is a momentous day -- but extraordinary times demand extraordinary policy solutions." Richard Lambert, director general of the CBI, may be right, but businesses are wondering whether the government's intervention on behalf of the banks will improve credit availability. ...; Tags: Bank, Government, Financial Services, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2009-01-19
Three Problems With G20's Promise to Curb Bankers' Bonuses: Bankers have become the social pariahs of this generation. We have our poster boy, with Fred the Shred apparently now considering a voluntary pension cut. We have had the villagers with pitchforks converging on London's financial sector; and we have the G20 weighing in with plans...; Tags: Bank, Compensation, Financial, Banker, G20, Government, Banking, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sarah Coles; Blog posts 2009-04-03
Pandora: Randall staying put after failed ITV bid Ever since Britain's economy began to head south, bosses at ITV News have been facing a dilemma: how to compete with Robert Peston. The BBC's ubiquitous business editor has become the voice of the credit crunch ever since he...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, Randall; Research articles 2008-10-16