George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble

Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned. The billionaire investor’s comments came only days after the oil price soared to a record high of $135 a barrel amid speculation that crude could soon be [...]

Free enterprise in Europe hangs on Ireland’s EU vote

For 700 years Ireland was Britain’s outer defence – nolens volens – against the great powers of continental Europe. By a twist of fate, the Irish must now cast the ballot on the EU constitution for both islands, since Labour has defaulted on its pledge for a British referendum. Our shared Anglo-Celtic culture has long [...]

New rules to protect consumers against firms

New rules to protect consumers against unfair business practices will come into force today, opening the door for companies to be prosecuted if they treat their customers unfairly. The so-called Consumer Protection Regulations will make it illegal to omit important information from their trading documents, and to make misleading statements. Furthermore, it will ban 31 [...]

Treasury ‘must end fuel tax plan’

Business leaders have called on the Treasury to scrap plans to introduce a 2p increase in fuel tax in the Autumn as the price at the pump surges. The British Chamber of Commerce said businesses were being pushed “to the absolute edge” by the costs. The comments came as the price of a barrel of [...]

Venture Navigator

The Daily Telegraph has teamed up with the Venture Navigator consortium of leading universities to allow you to test your business ideas online and improve your chances of success. “We tackle ten different elements of the test below with Sir James Dyson, founder of eponymous home appliances group, and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson among [...]

Alistair Darling’s peace offer in attempt to halt the tax exodus

Alistair Darling will this week offer an olive branch to multinationals in an attempt to head off a threatened corporate exodus from Britain. He will try to defuse a row over the taxation of foreign profits by insisting Treasury reforms are not intended as a revenue-raising measure. Darling will also indicate that the government is [...]

Mervyn King’s insight on small business

Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King caused much excitement on Tuesday when he attacked the “excesses” of the City of London and its culture of bonuses tied to short-term targets. But in the coverage that followed his statements to the Treasury Select Committee, little has been made of his disclosure that he has [...]

The Entrepreneur and the Virtual Assistant

Fast becoming a symbiotic relationship, the Entrepreneur and the Virtual Assistant is an awesome combination. At Equilibrium, we are acutely aware of this and demand the highest quality and diligence from ourselves when assisting our customers. Many Entrepreneurs have effectively used the administrative services at that Virtual Assistants provide at Equilibrium to enhance the progress [...]

Android Phones Waiting In The Wings

Georgina Prodhan and John Bowker writing for Reuters state that “British chip designer ARM will demonstrate a prototype of Google Inc’s Android mobile phone platform in action next week at the world’s biggest wireless fair, a source close to the company said. It was not immediately clear on Thursday what the working model that ARM [...]

Spread your Risk through Multi-Sourcing

Glenn Warren at Accountancy Age writes that outsourcing to not one but several suppliers can spread risk and offer greater choice. These are some things that we have been aware of for sometime at Equilibrium and we understand the importance of a good and effective service that would enable companies and individuals business venture greater [...]