Autumn tones October 4, 2012 iPad case in mulberry leather Leather-bound in the UK by Aukward. £149.99 from Aukward. www.aukward.com Pilot watch on leather strap The El Primero Pilot Big Date Special by Zenith. £4,700 from the Watch Gallery. www.watchgallery.com Camel-brown gloves Leather gloves lined with cashmere by Want Les Essentiels de la Vie. £205 from Mr Porter. www.mrporter.com Document [...]
Autumn tones October 4, 2012 iPad case in mulberry leather Leather-bound in the UK by Aukward. £149.99 from Aukward. www.aukward.com Pilot watch on leather strap The El Primero Pilot Big Date Special by Zenith. £4,700 from the Watch Gallery. www.watchgallery.com Camel-brown gloves Leather gloves lined with cashmere by Want Les Essentiels de la Vie. £205 from Mr Porter. www.mrporter.com Document [...]
Best of the Brokers September 3, 2012 ADMIRAL Credit Suisse has cut the insurance firm’s target price to 1250p from 1300p and downgraded its recommendation to “neutral” from “outperform”. The note cited weak car growth. MORRISON Nomura’s rating of the supermarket giant has been slashed to “neutral” from “buy” while the target price is down to 300p from 350p. A refocused Tesco [...]
Best of the Brokers September 18, 2012 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Nomura has raised its target price by 3.5 per cent to 3,500p and maintains its “buy” rating on the tobacco seller. BAT is enjoying better volumes in Japan, offset slightly by tougher competition from bootleggers in Brazil, the broker points out. For the year, Nomura has raised its earnings per share estimate [...]
London report August 27, 2012 MARKET watchers will be looking to tomorrow’s Nationwide house prices report and mortgage approvals on Thursday to gauge whether the UK’s economy is pulling out of its double dip. Recent data put the number of mortgage approvals at a 15-year low and last month house prices had fallen by 0.7 per cent and 2.6 per [...]
Long Run too short for testing reappearance in Betfair Chase November 22, 2012 ALL eyes will be on Haydock tomorrow for the three-mile Betfair Chase (3.05pm), the first Grade One of the National Hunt season. As well as being a brilliant contest in its own right, with a prize fund of £200,000, it serves as a starting point for the top chasers on the road to the Cheltenham [...]
Boris uses fringe speech to pledge loyalty to PM October 8, 2012 BORIS Johnson last night staged a rapturous election rally at the Conservative party conference, pledging his loyalty to David Cameron while leaving no doubts as to his own popularity among Tory activists. Johnson entered the busy hall to a standing ovation as the slogan “Mission Imborisible” was displayed over footage of the Mayor of London’s [...]
Looper wants to be a Matrix for a new generation. In reality, it is nothing more than a forgettable, if engaging, sci-fi romp September 27, 2012 FILM LOOPER Cert 15 | *** Looper is one of those movies that keeps you engaged but then leaves you feeling slightly empty. Set in the year 2044, when the world is something of a mess, powerful criminal groups run the city and everywhere is awash with drug-taking, law breaking delinquents. The “looper” is prince [...]
The sky’s the limit: Why the humble checklist beats masterful intuition October 25, 2012 THOSE of us glued to the live feed of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the edge of space last week were also incidentally witness to one of the most powerful – and underappreciated – performance enhancement techniques known. If you were watching, the chances are you didn’t even give it a second thought. But there’s as [...]
Obama has reopened the campaign by denying Romney a knock-out blow October 17, 2012 TUESDAY night’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney may have had the occasional spark, but it lacked fireworks. Rather than a dazzling spectacle, it was noteworthy for two – or perhaps three – lacklustre performances. Having been overwhelmingly trounced by Romney in the first debate, this was the President’s chance to stop the [...]