House of Fraser weighs first quarter float amid rising markets November 10, 2013 DEPARTMENT store House of Fraser has accelerated plans for a listing on London’s stock market in the first quarter of 2014 after appointing Rothschild as advisers. The store, which posted record sales last year, is expected to hold a beauty parade of banks before Christmas to co-ordinate and run a share offering, with plans to [...]
Thali joins the growing Indian food renaissance April 8, 2014 @steve_dinneen RESTAURANT THALI 166 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0BA Tel: 020 7373 2626 FOOD Four Stars VALUE Four Stars ATMOSPHERE Four Stars Cost for two with some wine: £107 SO LAST month everything was plodding along nicely, all work, work, pub, pub, pub, taxi, take-away, bottle of red, quick whisky, sleep, aspirin, coffee, coffee, work, [...]
City Moves for 10 December 2013 | Who’s switching jobs December 9, 2013 AshurstThe law firm has hired Francis Kucera as a partner in its capital markets practice. He joins from Linklaters, where he was co-head of its Central and Eastern Europe office and the Commonwealth of Independent States region, and co-managing partner of Linklaters' Warsaw office. RBC Capital MarketsThe corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank [...]
Focus on… Regent’s Park: Buy a room with a Royal Park view November 21, 2013 IF YOU’RE finding it hard to fall in love with the towers of London and you want something a bit more traditional, then look into living near Regent’s Park. The north west London beauty spot started life as a hunting ground for King Henry VIII. But at the start of the 19th century the Prince [...]
Royal Mail: What happens now October 10, 2013 IF YOU BID FOR £10,000 OR LESS YOU GET £749.10 IF YOU BID FOR OVER £10,000 YOU GET NOTHING WHAT HAPPENS NOW TODAYConditional trading of Royal Mail shares begins, with the price expected to jump. Individuals who failed to receive their full allocation of shares can expect to see their cash put on account. TUESDAYUnconditional [...]
Salmond keeps contradicting himself on Scottish independence February 17, 2014 POLITICS is a nasty, brutish business – so I have no time for those Scottish nationalists who are now bleating about how badly they are being treated by the London and European establishments. The Scottish National Party (SNP) spent years poisoning many Scots against the UK, using half-truths and propaganda;it cannot now complain when the [...]
FTSE 100 falls again as price slump hits oil sector – London Report October 20, 2014 Britain’s top equity index resumed its fall yesterday, giving back half the gains made in the previous session, as investors reckoned with reduced earnings expectations for oil companies after a slump in oil prices. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed down 43.22 points, or 0.7 per cent, at 6,267.07 points, after rising 114 points on [...]
Royal Mail races past 470p as full trading starts October 14, 2013 THOUSANDS of individual investors are expected to offload their Royal Mail shares today, as the company completes its listing on the London Stock Exchange. Shares in the privatised postal service yesterday closed at 471.36p, up 42 per cent on Friday’s flotation price. This means people who received the maximum £749.10 allocation are already sitting on a [...]
MPC to publish rate verdict but no change seen – London Report October 5, 2014 THE MONETARY Policy Committee (MPC) will announce its latest interest rate decision on Thursday, but Investec does not expect any change from the current 0.5 per cent and quantitative easing target at £375bn. September’s Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) monthly housing data will also be updated on Thursday, after house prices grew at their [...]
London Report: Fears over Scotland and Asos statement pull down markets September 16, 2014 BRITAIN’S top share index fell yesterday, with financial stocks underperforming as investors showed reluctance to buy up new positions before tomorrow’s Scotland independence referendum. The FTSE 100 index closed down by 0.2 per cent, or 11.97 points, at 6,792.24 points, with a fall in major financial stocks weighing on the market. Retail shares took a [...]