Google announces massive shake-up of its advertising software, scrapping Adwords and Doubleclick June 27, 2018 Google is ditching its Adwords and Doubleclick advertising software brands, in favour of adopting a more streamlined approach for advertisers and sales teams. The changes mean that Google’s advertising effort will now be repositioned into three main brands, reflecting what senior vice president Sridhar Ramaswamy referred to as the change in the way marketers approach [...]
Biggest quarterly fall in London house prices for nine years recorded April 12, 2018 House prices in London declined at their sharpest rate for nine years during the first part of 2018, new data shows. Prices fell by 3.2 per cent in the first three months of the year according to the Halifax House Price Index. The average London house price was £430,759, its lowest since the end of [...]
Inflatable unicorns and flamingoes are the hit of the summer sales, according to John Lewis’ data | City A.M. July 16, 2018 It appears the heat has gone to our heads. Is there no end to the kitsch tiki bars taking over terraces up and down the nation? Will we ever tire of parrots, flamingos and pineapples? Incredibly, kitsch is in this summer and we know that because of cold, hard data. Every week, John Lewis’ best [...]
Shame on both the buyers and the sellers of volatility products February 13, 2018 Well this is more fun now, isn’t it? I mean, aren’t we all just a little bit more excited about equity markets now that strange concept of a “two-way market” has been reintroduced for the first time since the market carnage in 2016? Isn’t it great to finally see some of the most stupid and [...]
Tesla earnings preview: Can Elon Musk’s Silicon Valley car maker beat the odds? April 29, 2018 American car maker Tesla is set to announce its first-quarter results on Wednesday 2 May, but with a series of setbacks in recent months, investors may be wondering whether the company can live up to expectations. Analysts at S&P Global Market Intelligence expect the company to report a loss of $3.52 (£2.56) per share in [...]
Ranked: London boroughs with the biggest increase in new property listings June 6, 2018 New property listings were up 7.4 per cent in May, with London seeing a 5.9 per cent increase in the number of new properties on the market. May therefore saw the the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month since before 2017, according to online estate agents HouseSimple. The figures [...]
Focus On Brixton: David Bowie, buzzing nightlife and honest burgers keep average house prices at around £550,000 July 27, 2017 In many ways, Brixton is the capital of south London. With its excellent transport links into central London and exhaustive range of shopping, dining and nightlife options, if you didn’t have to work, you probably wouldn’t need to leave. It even has its own currency. Over 250 businesses accept the Brixton Pound and around £50,000 [...]
The Wine connoisseur: How to avoid wine pairing disasters May 1, 2018 I have been surrounded by wine my entire life, from my mum’s collection of rarities to my uncle’s home-brewed sparkling. Growing up in Italy, there was wine in nearly every recipe and a bottle on every table. But that doesn’t mean pairing wine with food comes naturally – it’s a process of trial and error [...]
Opinion: London’s buyers market is a consequence of estate agents irresponsibly over-pricing properties February 23, 2018 The average London home is now sold at 4 per cent below its original asking price, according to the Hometrack Cities Index, up from just 0.5 per cent in 2014. Many are taking it as a sign that homeowners are desperately discounting their homes in an effort to sell, and that the capital has now [...]
UK house prices: Property transactions have fallen to their lowest since 2013 April 21, 2017 The number of homes bought in the UK fell to its lowest since 2013 last year, new figures have shown. Some 1.15m homes were bought between April last year and March this year, compared with 1.32m the year before, and 2m in 2014-15. The figures also showed the number of homes bought fell 40 per [...]