Ruth Sunderland

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Ruth Sunderland

M&S boss Stuart Machin has every reason to hate the shadowy cyber-criminals who attacked the store he runs. He has been working night and day to try to put it right, it has threatened his successful recovery drive and will cost him £1 million in pay. Surely he would like to see draconian punishment for the culprits? But Machin refuses to be drawn on what he'd like to say to the hackers, reported to be a gang including teenagers, and what their punishment should be.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ruth Sunderland

Olga Polizzi says with a wry smile that she has always been defined in relation to her famous family – the Forte hotel dynasty. As a young woman, she was known as the daughter of patriarch Charles, who founded the empire. After that, she was the sister of Rocco Forte, who runs the luxury hotel group of that name, where she is head of design and a significant investor. More recently, her identity is as the mother of Alex Polizzi, of Channel 5 TV series The Hotel Inspector.

3 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Ruth Sunderland

My colleague Alex Brummer has written ruefully about how he missed out on millions of pounds by spurning advice to invest with Warren Buffett in the 1980s. His decision not to buy shares in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate was perfectly reasonable at the time. It's just bad luck he is not now luxuriating on his yacht – though if he were, his readers and colleagues would have missed out.

1 month ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Ruth Sunderland

Donald Trump is waging war with the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, and we should all be worried. A short-lived truce broke out when the President backed down from a social media post suggesting he wanted to 'terminate' Jay Powell's chairmanship of the Fed. But as he marked his first 100 days in office last week, Trump renewed his attacks, saying: 'You're not supposed to criticise the Fed.

1 month ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Ruth Sunderland

While the world was transfixed on the mayhem on Wall Street, there was a landmark moment in the City of London. The Square Mile surpassed £100billion of economic output for the first time, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number, the latest available, is for 2023 so does not take account of the latest Trump-induced shocks. But coming after the trauma of Covid and the upheaval of Brexit, it is still a testament to the City's resilience.