THE highest and the most prestigious of Courchevel’s four ski villages has traditionally lured A-list celebrities, cash-flashing Russian oligarchs, hedge fund managers and royals.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s outspoken rock-star former finance minister, has said that a second Scottish independence would be "justified" and all but inevitable if the rest of the UK votes to leave the EU in June’s in-out referendum while Scots vote to remain.
The first of three 100kV turbines which form part of the Shetland Tidal Array project has started providing power to the local electricity grid following a successful winter of testing.
Frontier IP, the Edinburgh-based intellectual property commercialisation specialist, saw its revenues almost quadrupling in the six months to December as the company swung decisively back to the black.
Sales of a device which makes holding a computer tablet more comfortable are running into the tens of thousands within a year of its launch.
Declining productivity in Scotland is now impacting wage growth as output declines while employment rises, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO.
The way we access internet, mobile and phone banking is to be revolutionised as a host of new biometric technologies are rolled out by the big financial institutions.
A busy year for BAE Systems’ naval ships division on the Clyde contributed to the defence giant’s operating profits rising 7.6 per cent to £1.5bn in 2015 while sales rose £1.3bn to £17.9bn.
A strong pound and the one-off costs of upgrading a fish processing plant in Rosyth meant that Marine Harvest’s Scottish operations were effectively run at a loss in the last quarter of 2015.
It is a scenario that was never meant to happen again after the financial catastrophe of 2008. Since the crash, governments and regulators have forced banks to raise massive amounts of capital to ensure they could survive another crisis without the need for any further taxpayer funded bail-outs.
