The dastardly Mr Deedes

Telegenic Bank of England governor Mark Carney will appear for the first time on Robert Peston’s ITV chat show this Sunday. A neighbourhood admirer laments: ‘Drat, now I’ll have to do without seeing the governor in his tracksuit on his usual Sunday morning jog through the park. It’s the highlight of my week...’

Shell’s redoubtable chief finance officer Jessica Uhl got bowled a googly during yesterday’s results announcement, when a journalist asked about that current hot potato: sexual harassment in the workplace. Flummoxed Jessica ummed and ahhed before uttering something about Shell being a great place to work. Bet the testosterone-fuelled oil industry makes Westminster look like a vicar’s tea party, don’t you?

Jerome Powell, who’s been named as Donald Trump’s next chairman of the Federal Reserve, is the wealthiest man to have occupied the position since banker Marriner Eccles was appointed by Franklin D Roosevelt in 1934. Funeral-faced Powell’s £50m fortune comes from private equity, having once served as a partner at The Carlyle Group and co-founding Severn Capital Partners. The Fed post is traditionally held

Hedge fund giant Man Group, CQS and Cheyne Capital are to offer work experience to MPs to educate them about the opaque industry. Surprisingly, this constructive idea was dreamt up by a Labour MP, Chris Evans. The fresh-faced Rhondda Valleys boyo, 41, used to work for the sensible former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, and hails from the sane wing of the party.

Marks & Spencer’s Paris store closed this week, but workers haven’t come out of it too badly. They’ll continue to be paid for another year and be given £10,000 towards further training – a ludicrously generous deal for which they can thank France’s archaic labour laws. Their good fortune might serve as a gentle reminder to any bank still threatening to relocate to Paris after Brexit.