Law and business: commercial news round-up 02.04.15
updated on 02 April 2015
Just an idea, but we would gently suggest that you intersperse the late-morning starts and excessive consumption that characterises the Easter weekend with looking at some of the past week’s most interesting commercial news stories:
- The Bank of England plans to impose a series of "stress tests" on UK banks to see if, among other things, they would cope with another global crash.
- In snazzy news from the fashion desk, Net-A-Porter and Yoox have merged to create the world’s biggest online designer clothing retailer, worth billions of pounds.
- In other garment-related news, M&S has posted a 0.7% rise in sales of its clothing lines, prompting a 6% rise in shares.
- Several trademark owners have been trying to stop the rollout of the predatory ‘.sucks’ domain, to no avail, as this week it was officially launched.
- The Economist explains two important things this week – one, why the Eurozone is recovering, and two, how a hedge fund works. Essential reading.
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