"It looks like a good deal, but what they tell you in the fine print is that you fill up the whole tank at that rate, even if you bring it back half full," said Candy Adams, owner of a trade show consultancy and a frequent business traveler.
Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms which specialise in knowledge screening, assessment and evaluation, and trade professional consultancy services.
But trades such as consultancy and finance rely on big transactions to drive profits.
Our target price has been set at 100p (from 77p)." On the trading front, engineering consultancy WS Atkins closed 18p higher at 557p after better than expected full year results.
Our target price has been set at 100p (from 77p)." On the trading front, engineering consultancy WS Atkins is 11p higher at 550p after better than expected full year results.
Howard Simons, the president of the economic consultancy Rosewood Trading, once described the index as "totally devoid of speculative content".
As Mr Haldane points out, share prices ceased to have any information content (Accenture, a consultancy, briefly traded at one cent).
Thousands of companies, banks, law firms, PR consultancies and trade associations are there to bend ears and influence the regulations and laws that shape Europe's single market, fix trade deals, and govern economic and commercial behaviour in a union of 507 million.
