Stephen Foley
Stephen Foley is Associate Business Editor of The Independent, based in New York. In a decade at the paper, he has covered personal finance, the UK stock market and the pharmaceuticals industry, and been the Business section's share tipster. And since arriving with three suitcases in Manhattan in January 2006, he has witnessed and reported on a great economic boom turning spectacularly to bust. In March 2009, he was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.
Romney hands over $60 to struggling supporter
16 January 2012 12:00 AM
Mitt Romney, the front-runner in the race for the Republican US presidential nomination, handed over a fistful of cash to an unemployed supporter at one of his rallies on Saturday night, after she complained of being so hard-up that she could not afford her electricity bills.
Coach admits he backed away from sex scandal
16 January 2012 12:00 AM
Ailing college sports giant Joe Paterno breaks his silence in bid to restore his shattered reputation
Stephen Foley: Volcker Rule is useless in tackling systemic risk
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
US Outlook: There are so many good reasons to hate the Volcker Rule, it is surprising that lobbyists against it have thrown up so many disingenuous objections, too.
Stephen Foley: Mini-stores may take a bite out of Apple's image
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
US Outlook: Target must be hoping for Beijing-style mob scenes when it opensmini-Apple stores inside its superstores soon, though maybe not quite the brawls and egg-throwing that marred the iPhone 4S launch in China yesterday.
Stephen Foley: Google has a fight on its hands to preserve an open and accessible web
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
US Outlook: Google is being a bully. On our behalf.
Crisis? Crash? Minutes of US Fed's 2006 meetings reveal little worry
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
America's top financial experts continued to heap praise on Bernanke as economy collapsed
Spotlight On... Warren Buffett, founder, Berkshire Hathaway
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
Ah, the Oracle of Omaha
Wall Street bankers await the bonus axe
12 January 2012 12:00 AM
It's that time of year for financial firms, and the outlook is bleak. The savagery of bonus cuts on Wall Street will set the stage for London
US poaches Tate Modern curator
12 January 2012 12:00 AM
The woman in charge of filling the Tate Modern's turbine hall has been poached by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Spotlight On... Lewis Booth, chief financial officer, Ford
11 January 2012 12:00 AM
The numbers guy?