Bond spreads narrow as investors react October 27, 2011 TEN-YEAR yields on German government bonds jumped by the most in almost three months yesterday and spreads across the Eurozone narrowed, as investors reacted to politicians’ plans by shifting their risk exposure. German bunds became a less attractive safe haven after the country’s parliament backed an increase to the European Financial Stability Facility, to which [...]
Bond spreads narrow as investors react October 27, 2011 TEN-YEAR yields on German government bonds jumped by the most in almost three months yesterday and spreads across the Eurozone narrowed, as investors reacted to politicians’ plans by shifting their risk exposure. German bunds became a less attractive safe haven after the country’s parliament backed an increase to the European Financial Stability Facility, to which [...]
COLD COMFORT AS CITY SLEEPS ROUGH FOR CENTREPOINT November 10, 2011 DECEMBER 15, 2009 is a night that Seyi Obakin will always remember – the night he spent sleeping rough with the future King of England near Blackfriars Bridge. “It was not a pleasant experience,” said Obakin on the sub-zero conditions, who said Prince William was particularly struck by how the “sense of drift” could contribute [...]
ANALYST VIEWS: HAS SPIRIT MANAGED TO TURN ITSELF AROUND? October 20, 2011 PAUL HICKMAN | PEEL HUNT I think its good to see that the momentum is there and …the current period of like-for-like sales recovered to 4.8 per cent positive in the last eight weeks…It was good to see that current bounce back in trading because it shows the investment process is still delivering the kind [...]
ANALYST VIEWS: HAS SPIRIT MANAGED TO TURN ITSELF AROUND? October 20, 2011 PAUL HICKMAN | PEEL HUNT I think its good to see that the momentum is there and …the current period of like-for-like sales recovered to 4.8 per cent positive in the last eight weeks…It was good to see that current bounce back in trading because it shows the investment process is still delivering the kind [...]
Sotherton U-turn for heptathlon October 24, 2011 BRITISH former Olympic bronze medal-winning heptathlete Kelly Sotherton has played down her London 2012 chances after announcing a shock return to the event. Sotherton, 34, abandoned the heptathlon to focus on the 400m 11 months ago but yesterday performed a dramatic U-turn to boost her hopes of making next summer’s Games at all. Yet she [...]
The brand new Fass of fashion October 6, 2011 GENTLEMAN, take note. You might not know of Michael Fassbender, but you will: the Fass-fest will start soon. The chiselled Brit has crept onto the big screen as Magneto in X-Men First Class, the cravatted Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre, and a sex addict in Shame opposite Carey Mulligan, a performance which earned him the [...]
Devonish: I lost medals to drug cheats but don’t mind BOA scrapping life ban December 1, 2011 Exclusive: Sprinter tells Frank Dalleres why dopers deserve a second chance GOLD winning sprinter Marlon Devonish has delivered a blow to the British Olympic Association’s battle to uphold its lifetime ban for doping by insisting he does not mind competing alongside previous offenders at the London 2012 Games. The BOA is under intense pressure to drop [...]
Bertlesmann boss to leave October 10, 2011 MEDIA company Bertelsmann, owner of the production company that makes The X Factor, said yesterday its chief executive Hartmut Ostrowski will stand down. Ostrowski, who took the helm in 2008, will take a seat on Bertelsmann’s supervisory board, the German company said, adding that he was making the switch for personal reasons. The move comes as [...]
HOW TO GET DRESSED November 10, 2011 FOUNDERS OF ROUS ILAND MEMBERS’ BOUTIQUE Q.I head up a team at work. I like wearing pencil skirts but how can I be sure to avoid the “sexy secretary” look? A.In less emancipated times, when women were restricted to purely junior support roles, the pencil skirt was a woman’s key work-wear piece. In the 80s [...]