Improved Pru in surprise takeover bid

Gosling's Grouse

I followed my own advice. For the first time in nearly 20 years, I gave the Budget a miss. I avoided...

I followed my own advice. For the first time in nearly 20 years, I gave the Budget a miss. I avoided the ritual of sitting glued to the TV, radio and web before waiting for the Treasury and Inland Revenue papers to come over. I looked at the billboards for the London Evening Standard: 'Budget - Teachers and Nurses win,' and thought, that's enough for me. Forget the teachers, give it to the nurses, they deserve it. As I'll be reading the excellent coverage in this edition of Investment Week instead, I spent my time pondering what could be a much more important piece of news - the bid for ...