TRAVEL NOTES December 5, 2010 Run away for Christmas If you experience a sudden urge to run away to the mountains this Christmas, the fabulous five star Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains in glitzy St Moritz still has space. As well as the world-class skiing, the hotel also offers complimentary access to its high alpine spa and a gala dinner [...]
TRADERS GO BANANAS AT ICAP DAY OF DONATIONS December 8, 2010 IT was that time of year again, yesterday – the time for ICAP to unleash the creative instincts of its traders in a four-floor extravaganza of frenzied fancy dress, Flintstone toy cars and beer bottles. The annual ICAP charity day is by now something of a global institution, a day on which the firm’s thousands [...]
TRADERS GO BANANAS AT ICAP DAY OF DONATIONS December 8, 2010 IT was that time of year again, yesterday – the time for ICAP to unleash the creative instincts of its traders in a four-floor extravaganza of frenzied fancy dress, Flintstone toy cars and beer bottles. The annual ICAP charity day is by now something of a global institution, a day on which the firm’s thousands [...]
Banks support FTSE amid broad-based gains January 11, 2011 LONDON’S FTSE made strong gains today as bank shares surged and sovereign debt fears receded. Athough stocks gave back some of the day’s earlier gains by the market close, the leading index closed closed up 57.73 points or one per cent at 6,014.03. It ended a three-day losing streak and stayed ahead of the 6,000 [...]
Banks support FTSE amid broad-based gains January 11, 2011 LONDON’S FTSE made strong gains today as bank shares surged and sovereign debt fears receded. Athough stocks gave back some of the day’s earlier gains by the market close, the leading index closed closed up 57.73 points or one per cent at 6,014.03. It ended a three-day losing streak and stayed ahead of the 6,000 [...]
Menorah to land the Champion for Hobbs March 14, 2011 LAST year we thought we weren’t going to see Binocular run in the Champion Hurdle and his connections surprised us all by declaring him fit for the race at the last minute. Amazingly, 12 months on, they have surprised us all again at the final hour by not declaring the champion because of a medication [...]
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE YEAR OF THE GRISLY KILLER POLICY RABBIT January 3, 2011 IT seems you can hardly call yourself an analyst these days without issuing a long list of annual predictions, and Societe Generale’s Michala Marcussen keenly threw his hat in the ring yesterday. But while his SocGen colleague Dylan Grice analyses “Popular Delusions” in his regular note, Marcussen went for the more unusual theme of “Policymakers and [...]
WHISKY, JAZZ, AND BETTING ON THE EURO February 16, 2011 WITH whisky tasting, a jazz band and the chance to win a sports car for the weekend on offer, WorldSpreads winter party (definitely not just a late Christmas do) was the place to be in the City on Tuesday night. Held in a candlelit crypt underneath St Etheldreda’s church near Chancery Lane, the night saw [...]
TRAVEL NOTES January 16, 2011 Dukan Diet’s idyll Let us hope the troubles in Tunisia are over soon. The year’s must-do diet has launched a residential programme in Tunisia at the idyllic Residence Tunis. The three-part plan will see you drop pounds through reducing carbohydrate and fat, gorging on 28 different vegetables and eventually, resuming your normal diet. One for [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS January 10, 2011 EAT CHEAP IN BATTERSEA The Fish Place, the recently-opened high-quality seafood restaurant on Bridges Court Road in Battersea – which uses the nearby heliport to fly in fresh catches from the coast most days – is offering a rather splendid deal for those whose wallets need a bit of a New Year respite. From 25-30 [...]