The long running trial of three former Tesco executives accused of 'cooking the books' to 'exaggerate' the supermarket's profits by £250m has been aborted after one of the men suffered a heart attack last week. Carl Rogberg, 50, Chris Bush, 51, and John Scouler, 49, allegedly acted as the 'generals'
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In fact, at $2.5 billion, the cumulative outflow from HYG and its $11 billion peer, the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, is the second-worst on record. Few are expecting a repeat of last year's gains in emerging markets and credit, when the global economic recovery and risk appetite helped
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Social mobility in accounting has decreased in recent years. In fact, the profession has had the largest decline of all in social mobility between the 1958 and 1970 cohorts. If this continues, then the future accountant will come from a family richer than seven in ten of families in the UK. Access Accountancy
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Bitcoin has been a plaything for risk-hungry traders and punters rather than a widely held investment or real-world currency. It's been shunned by banks and banned by governments. Yet it's still possible that its slide on Monday made the broader market selloff worse, as investors sold assets to
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Russia's billionaire oligarchs are beginning to face additional scrutiny on at least some financial transactions following U.S. publication of a list of wealthy Russians identified as allies of President Vladimir Putin. One wealthy Russian on the list who spoke on condition of anonymity said he's worried a
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