Nigel Farage: “There is a new Berlin Wall and it is called the euro” July 8, 2015 Ukip leader Nigel Farage has launched another scathing attack on the European Union and its leaders as he stood up to speak at the European Parliament during a session on the Greek crisis talks. The European project has started to die. The plan has failed. The whole of the Mediterranean finds itself in the wrong [...]
Commodity chaos hammers the FTSE following Glencore share price slump August 20, 2015 Shares in Glencore tumbled nearly 10 per cent to a record low The FTSE 100 sank to its lowest level since January yesterday after mining behemoth Glencore failed to reassure investors with its response to a global slump in the price of metals. Shares in Glencore tumbled nearly 10 per cent to a [...]
EU referendum: Stop the complacency or Britain could sleepwalk out of the European Union October 1, 2015 There must have been something in the water at Number 11 Downing Street in the 1970s and 1980s: two of the most famous post-war chancellors have now said they will vote Out in David Cameron’s forthcoming EU referendum. Denis Healey told the New Statesman some time ago that he would vote to quit Europe [...]
Admiral appoints Geraint Jones as new CFO August 13, 2014 The owner of confused.com has announced the appointment of Geraint Jones as group chief financial officer (CFO) and executive director of Admiral Group, with effect from 13 August. Geraint, who has been with Admiral since 2002, will take over from Kevin Chidwick who will now focus on his US role as CEO of Elephant Auto [...]
Jamaican restaurant Rudie’s doesn’t fail: Dalston’s Caribbean food rivals the best of West London October 13, 2015 RUDIE'S 50 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB FOOD ★★★★☆ VALUE ★★★★☆ ATMOSPHERE ★★★★☆ Cost for two with wine: £100 Is Dalston over? Have the new-media types migrated to farther-flung locales to write their articles for Vice about taking ketamine at Center Parcs? I have no idea. I’m well into my 30s and no longer hip enough to gauge [...]
Wyndham Championship: Tiger’s still waiting for that title but looks to be out of the Woods August 25, 2015 He has a long wait now until his next tournament so it would be premature to say a long-awaited win was round the corner, but there are definite signs that Tiger Woods has arrested his decline and is on the up. The former world No1 fell short of a first title since 2013 at [...]
Weak performance in mining sector is a drag on the FTSE – London Report June 25, 2015 WEAK mining stocks and persistent concerns over Greece’s debt problems weighed on the UK market yesterday. The benchmark FTSE 100 equity index closed down 0.5 per cent at 6,807.82 points. Miners took most points off the index, with the FTSE 350 Mining Index falling 1.8 per cent as copper prices lost ground. The FTSE 100 [...]
Standard Chartered share price rises as investors warm to Winters August 5, 2015 Shares in Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered were up more than four per cent at 992p in lunchtime trade as new chief exec Bill Winters won over investors. The figures This came despite first half results showing adjusted pre-tax profit slumped 44 per cent to $1.82bn (£1.17bn) in the six months to the end of June. The bank also cut its dividend [...]
Diamond has a Yale of a time May 18, 2015 “NO ONE in the world I admire more than my dad,” tweeted Bob Diamond’s loyal daughter when, in the summer of 2012, the Barclays boss was being hounded out of the bank over the Libor-rigging scandal. Diamond was subsequently replaced by Antony Jenkins, of course, but now it seems that daughter Nellie may admire her [...]
Jason Day’s success could be the start of a new three-way era, featuring Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – Sam Torrance’s Golf Comment August 18, 2015 The parade of birdies, magnificent shot-making and record scores that we witnessed over the last few days as Jason Day held off Jordan Spieth to win the US PGA Championship is exactly what we want from golf. Day was just superb. He had challenged at Majors before but hadn’t lasted the pace and could [...]