Westminster Outlook Appropriately for a man whose greatest achievement/failure in the coalition so far has been the privatisation of Royal Mail, Michael Fallon spent his final hours as a business minister announcing a sell-off. The proposed privatisation of Constructionline, though, was rather lost in the reshuffle excitement as Mr Fallon reached the top rank of government with a promotion to Defence Secretary.

Westminster Outlook What’s the point of a reshuffle if you promote MPs to the wrong roles?

Outlook As British firms pour back into corruption-prone Iran in the hope of an imminent end to sanctions, a little-noticed Supreme Court judgment brings some cheer to their stressed compliance departments.

Outlook: A few words on this talk of the exodus of rich Russians, and their money, from London.

Outlook Peter Sands’s hold on the chief executive position at Standard Chartered seems ever more tenuous. Yesterday, an exhaustively researched story in the Financial Times was splashed across its front cover, with a further page inside, documenting the extreme difficulties the emerging markets bank is going through.

Economic View: Monetary policy has become easier without the Bank of England doing anything

When it comes to the financial industry’s richest and most risk-taking executives, few top those in the world of energy trading.

Outlook It wasn’t all that long ago that the makers of Crocs were aspiring to be the biggest reptiles in the footwear world.

Outlook The City is now in the midst of the summer silly season as regards news. So here’s an apparently silly story.

Outlook Oh dear. Just days after its chief executive Ross McEwan had again talked about his ambition to turn Royal Bank of Scotland into a paragon of banking virtue, it has egg all over its face again.

The Chancellor hopes his announcement yesterday will lead to a world where retiring people make informed decisions about their pension choices.

Outlook: Mr Clarke pulled Tesco out of its disastrous American adventure and identified the problem with its antiseptic and unfriendly UK stores

“Unexpected item in bagging area”. One of the most irritating phrases in modern life, of course.

Global Outlook Is it still “open sesame” for the monster initial public offering in New York of the Chinese internet retail giant Alibaba this summer?

Westminster Outlook If you thought that teachers hated their erstwhile Education Secretary, you should talk to probation officers. Their anger at the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, makes even the most left-wing teachers look like apologists for Michael Gove.