Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent
Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
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Train builder to cut 2,000 jobs
Britain’s last train manufacturer, Bombardier, is set to cut as many as 2,000 jobs after the Government awarded the £1.5 bn Thameslink contract to a German rival.
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New Bribery Act to tackle business corruption
The Bribery Act 2010, which comes into effect on 1 July, aims to encourage businesses to expose corruption within their organisations by making it a criminal offence to give or receive a bribe.
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EU leaders meet for crisis talks on Greece
Europe’s leaders are tonight locked in crisis talks to try and rescue Greece, as signs of a tentative deal with lending banks emerged that could help stave off bankruptcy.
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Greece’s debt crisis threatens to sink the euro
As Greece battles to avoid defaulting on its debts, Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy says the pain could only just be starting for the rest of Europe and the UK.
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Supermarkets set to expand 20 percent by 2014
New figures obtained by Channel 4 News show that Britain’s supermarkets are in the middle of an unprecedented expansion drive, with a new one or an expansion opening every day, writes Siobhan Kennedy.
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Should Boots’ parent company pay more corporation tax?
As Boots’ parent company, Boots Alliance, posts increased profits, Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy asks whether it is time the UK taxman took more of a share?
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Britain will not ‘bankroll’ Portugal, says Osborne
Britain will not pay a penny more than its legal obligations to help bail out Portugal, George Osborne stresses, as finance ministers meet in Budapest to thrash out a rescue package.
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HMV profits warning amid high street turmoil
High petrol, cotton and wheat prices are being blamed for the turbulence on Britain’s high streets as music retailer HMV issues its third profits warning of 2011. Siobhan Kennedy looks at the numbers.
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Budget: Enterprise Zones on the way back
It was a flagship policy of the 1980s – and now that the Conservatives are back in government, they’re bringing back the Enterprise Zone.
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Ofgem orders energy ‘big 6’ to sort out complex pricing
As the UK’s big six energy firms are ordered to sort out their complex price structures, Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy says consumers will finally be able to “compare apples with apples”.
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Barclays’ boss receives £6.5m bonus
Barclays’ chief executive Bob Diamond has received £6.5 million to become Britain’s best paid bank boss. Siobhan Kennedy says the pay out makes a mockery of the Merlin agreement.
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Economy slump is worse than expected
GDP dropped 0.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2010 – worse than the original 0.5 per cent estimate which caused economic shockwaves. Can the Government still blame the weather, Siobhan Kennedy asks.
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‘Put more women on company boards’, says report
A Government-commissioned report calls on companies to aim to have women make up one in four board members by 2015, but campaigners tell Channel 4 News only quotas will work.
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Cameron under fire for heading Middle East arms delegation
Prime Minister David Cameron is criticised for leading a business delegation to Kuwait that includes defence manufacturers. Siobhan Kennedy looks at the history of UK arms deals.
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The pub landlady who took on Sky
Siobahn Kennedy on the pub landlady whose legal fight to use a foreign satellite to screen Premier League matches could cost Sky millions of pounds.
