The Sunday Times December 6, 2020 11 BUSINESS Liam Kelly net-zero emissions company climate activists and promote Chloe’s top Insta snaps City on alert over by 2050. Perhaps it should be the use of coal. FUNNY BUSINESS tweed outbreak no surprise that Glasenberg, 63, overshadowed the green sank before Topshop The second English agenda. Between 2017 and Sensible names lockdown has ended, but the start of 2019, Glencore One of the first signs that Sir heavily tattooed “hot felon” there will not be a dash of ran a covert campaign — matter for Cass Philip Green’s Arcadia Group Jeremy Meeks, her former bosses back to the City. orchestrated by Sir Lynton During the Black Lives Matter was in serious danger of beau and father of her son Prufrock hears that captains Crosby’s PR firm — to attack protests, Cass Business going bust might be found in Jayden. She had more than of industry are rushing School dropped the name of an unlikely place: Instagram. 268,000 followers on the armed into the countryside. Sir John Cass, a slave trader. In the summer, his Facebook-owned platform. One of last month’s less BUSINESS Now, students and alumni daughter, Chloe, 29, was It may be that Green, 68, noticed restrictions was the of the school, part of City regularly sharing pictures of leant on his daughter to stop banning of shooting during BESTSELLERS University, have been asked herself scantily clad and publicising the life of a prime pheasant and Relentless to come up with a new name. Eddie Hearn swanning around the French charmed heiress while the partridge season. Estates 1 Hodder & Stoughton Professor André Spicer Riviera. Then, in August, Topshop owner teetered on need them to be shot before Rich Dad Poor Dad advises: “Maybe try to avoid things went quiet and she the brink. However, while the truncated season ends at 2 Robert Kiyosaki suggesting Boaty McBoatface suddenly abandoned the Chloe deactivated her the start of February. Plata Business School.” The Anarchy social media platform. account, her mother, 71-year- “Every shoot for the next William Dalrymple This was out of character. old Tina, still has hers — six weeks is booked solid,” 3 Bloomsbury Over the years she had though it is kept private. says Prufrock’s man in a The Intelligent Investor Insurer’s pizza posted more than 1,600 Given the plight of the flat cap and Barbour jacket. Benjamin Graham 4 HarperBusiness photos on Insta, showing her 13,000 workers whose jobs “The way you’ll be able to tell omelette policy Start With Why TWITTER POLL variously in garish designer are in jeopardy after someone has been on a shoot 5 Simon Sinek With black-tie dinners off the outfits, frolicking on Arcadia’s collapse last week, is that they won’t be available Penguin menu this winter, charities Yes No Lionheart — Green’s £100m perhaps the Greens’ for a Zoom meeting until How to Make the World Add Up are having to be more Chloe Green in Monaco before her account went dark Tim Harford superyacht — and with the newfound discretion is wise. 4pm — and then they won’t 6 Little Brown creative. Former Prudential use their camera.” boss Mark Wood, 67, 80% 20% Shoe Dog 6 Break-ups are never easy, especially with a US president. 7 Phil Knight chairman of the Multiple And, no, this time it isn’t about Donald Trump. JUST SAYING . Simon & Schuster Sclerosis Society, has drafted Bill Clinton knows how to hold a grudge: the latest issue of Ivan tires of life Rebel Ideas in celebrity chef Tom Vanity Fair magazine carries a 6,700-word profile of Doug 8 Matthew Syed Kerridge to teach donors how London is still going to be a fantastic at the coalface John Murray Band, a long-serving Clinton aide who, in 2011, co-founded Never Split the Difference to make a quattro stagioni lobbying outfit Teneo, before falling out with his mentor in world city. When it opens up and Farewell to Ivan Glasenberg, Chris Voss and Tahl Raz pizza omelette, while Jancis 2015. That year, Teneo bought London PR firm Blue Rubicon. billionaire boss of Glencore, 9 Random House Robinson will lead a virtual Time has not been a great healer. “No staffer has ever used theatres and pubs open again, who has announced he will Factfulness wine tasting. Consumer goods giant Hans Rosling et al their role to serve their interests as much as Doug Band,” a people will want to be there retire early next year. 10 Sceptre The society’s recent online Unilever will trial a four-day Clinton spokesperson tells Vanity Fair. “For many years he However, Friday’s news pub quiz drew 5,000 players. working week in New Bestseller list prepared by Nielsen using was a valuable member of President Clinton’s team and Rob Perrins, boss of upmarket drowned out the mining data supplied by and copyright to “It would have been enough Zealand. Would you be supportive of Clinton Foundation programmes. housebuilder Berkeley Group, does not giant’s pledge on the same Nielsen BookScan, taken from the TCM to fill the Royal Albert Hall,” more productive if you “Until he wasn’t.” fear an exodus from the capital day that it would become a for the four-week period to November 28 Wood beams. worked less? @ST_Business DATABANK INSIDE THE CITY JOHN COLLINGRIDGE THE WEEK IN THE MARKETS THE ECONOMY Consumer prices index current rate prev. month FTSE 100 DOLLAR fuel cell business to tap into Poland — up by £200m FTSE 100 USD > GBP 0.7% 0.5% growing demand for the clean to £550m. CPI including housing current rate prev. month Johnson 8,000 fuel, and is staking more on a Part of the problem is the $1.34 0.9% 0.7% new battery material — nickel- jam tomorrow element. Its U 0.01 Matthey rich advanced cathode “new markets” business, 12-month high: $1.35 Retail prices index current rate prev. month 7,000 low: $1.15 materials, dubbed eLNO, which includes batteries and 1.3% 1.1% which it hopes will be used to hydrogen, contributed just EURO stuck in 6,550.23 Average weekly earnings on prev. month on last year EUR > GBP power electric vehicles. £168m of sales in the half-year 182.65 H: 7,674.6 6,000 slow lane Chief executive Robert to the end of September — a 2.87% L: 4,993.9 £553 U 0.2% U 1.3% Unemployment current rate prev. month MacLeod has also been taking tenth of the group total, and 5,000 €1.11 the axe to costs as the just 3% of profits. Analysts at FTSE 250 W 0.00 12-month high: €1.20 1.62m 4.8% 4.5% When Boris Johnson brought pandemic eats into the car Investec say it is “well behind 2019 2020 low: €1.06 Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon Manufacturing output on the year on last month forward a ban on the sale of industry, announcing 2,500 its peers” on batteries and YEN new petrol and diesel cars job cuts. needs to “accelerate its RISERS FALLERS Ferrexpo: 261.6p U 25.2% on iron ore Tui: 464.6p V 10.3% on German bailout YEN > USD V 7.9% U 0.2% from 2035 to 2030 last Is Johnson Matthey moving evolution away from autocats price rise Rolls-Royce: 130.3p U 21% Pets At Home: 382.4p V 9.8% on Retail sales on the year on last month month, howls of anguish fast enough? Umicore, a [catalytic converters]”. on post-Covid plans BMO Commercial purchase and disposal Avon Rubber: could be heard across the Belgian rival, woke up to the Even a more bullish Property Trust: 86p U 19.8% on 410.5p V 8.6% on profits fall Phoenix: ¥104.17 U 5.8% U 1.2% 20,182.69 increased dividend Airtel Africa: 96.5p 721.4p V 8.2% on sentiment Hochschild U 0.07 automotive industry. extinction threat earlier and stockbroker, Berenberg, can 719.98 H:22,108.3 U 18.3% on sentiment Micro Focus: Mining: 196.8p V 7.5% on chairman’s 12-month high: ¥112.11 share sale Source: Refinitiv/AJ Bell low: ¥102.34 Johnson Matthey, a maker has been investing heavily in muster only enough 3.70% L:12,829.7 430.6p U 17% on continuing surge UK trade latest 3 mths prev. 3 mths latest 12 mths of catalytic converters that battery materials. enthusiasm to describe OIL balance (£bn) +8.62 +9.47 +22.04 clean the exhaust gases from When Johnson Matthey Johnson Matthey’s results as DOLLARS/BARREL DOW JONES FTSE EUROFIRST Gross domestic latest quarter prev. quarter annual change combustion engines, is released half-year results last “perfectly unobjectionable”, HANG SENG product watching its biggest market month, the shares fell 5.5% as adding that “some business is 30,218.26 26,835.92 1,522.62 $49.25 U 15.5% V 19.8% V 9.6% 1.07 head for extinction at a the company admitted it better than no business” and 307.89 H:30,218.3 58.76 H:29,056.4 4.52 H:1,690.8 U Budget deficit latest month prev. month year-to-date 1.03% L:18,591.9 0.22% L:21,696.1 0.30% L:1,096.5 12-month high: $71.75 (PSNB) in £bn breathtaking pace. would cost significantly more the battery business is no low: $15.98 -22.3 -28.6 -214.9 The two-century-old firm’s than expected to scale up its “mere curiosity”.