Goldman paid CEO David Solomon $47mn in 2025 as its stock soared

Wall Street executive’s remuneration jumps 21% from the previous year and was roughly in line with bank’s profits

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Wall Street walks a Trump tightrope: ‘stay out of the papers’ to avoid ire

Banks endure presidential attacks as their share prices and profits soar under lenient policies

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

‘There’s no free lunch’: How Wall St learned to live with Trump’s barbs

Banks endure presidential attacks as their share prices and profits soar under lenient policies

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Why credit card upstart Brex is selling out to Big Plastic

Despite its depressed valuation, the fintech’s longtime backers were probably keen to cash out

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Could the UK’s low house price growth be a good thing?

Agents are ‘gloomy’ about ‘downbeat’ figures from 2025. Projections for 2026 are ‘boring’. But there is some cause for optimism

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Gold records best week since 2008 as Greenland crisis rattles dollar

Precious metal closes in on $5,000 and silver tops $100 as Trump’s shortlived tariffs threat sparks rush to safe havens

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Yen rallies as ‘rate check’ sparks intervention speculation

Japanese currency rises most since August after New York Fed queries market participants on price levels

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Tory peers force UK to pause passage of Chagos Islands bill after US criticism

Donald Trump called plan to transfer sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius an ‘act of great stupidity’

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

BlackRock’s Rick Rieder surges ahead in race to chair Federal Reserve

Donald Trump has said he plans to name his nominee to run the US central bank ‘in the not too distant future’

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026

Rothschilds join the ranks of the super-rich buying up British pubs

A growing number of wealthy UK residents are investing in country establishments

Posted on Friday January 23, 2026