Chi-X Europe keeps second place April 13, 2011 Over €454bn (£403bn) worth of shares were traded on Chi-X Europe in the first-quarter of this year, according to company figures published yesterday. The exchange said its market share increased or remained steady across the major indices, ensuring it maintained its position as the second largest equity exchange in Europe. It added its clients saved [...]
Reinventing the old-school bar legends October 19, 2011 LEGENDARY venues are currently undergoing reboots all over London. Home House’s newest portal to hedonism, The Vaults, draws inspiration from Studio 54 for a modern twist on the glory days of disco. This intimate space has a private entrance leading to a clandestine leather-clad door complete with chain-mailed peepholes. Inside, vaulted rooms of rich copper [...]
CHARLIE BICK IS COMEBACK KING AS X FACTOR DEFEAT OPENS DOORS April 26, 2011 THEY thought it was all over for the singing career of Charlie Bick, the son of Square1 Consulting’s chairman David Bick, who was voted off the Chilean version of the X Factor after just two live performances. Not for long however, as the next morning Charlie Bick – who this column first reported on on [...]
Don’t oscillate on using stochastics November 21, 2011 STOCHASTIC oscillators can be wielded in the constant battle against the random walk of the market. As with all technical analysis tools, they won’t unlock all the secrets of the price action, but they can be an additional clue as to the statistical likelihood that the market is due a correction on the downside or [...]
Don’t oscillate on using stochastics November 21, 2011 STOCHASTIC oscillators can be wielded in the constant battle against the random walk of the market. As with all technical analysis tools, they won’t unlock all the secrets of the price action, but they can be an additional clue as to the statistical likelihood that the market is due a correction on the downside or [...]
CAUDWELL FLIES FROM BULLIES TO BILLIONS October 31, 2011 HOPE FOR everyone who had a miserable time at school – it might not stop you becoming as successful as John Caudwell, the freckle-faced Phones4U founder who rose from his “dog eat dog” start to become a self-made telecoms billionaire. “My childhood was a permanent challenge,” said the once-bullied tycoon. “On my very first day [...]
CAUDWELL FLIES FROM BULLIES TO BILLIONS October 31, 2011 HOPE FOR everyone who had a miserable time at school – it might not stop you becoming as successful as John Caudwell, the freckle-faced Phones4U founder who rose from his “dog eat dog” start to become a self-made telecoms billionaire. “My childhood was a permanent challenge,” said the once-bullied tycoon. “On my very first day [...]
How the Eurozone plans to bury its junk bonds in a big derivative October 30, 2011 LAST week’s hotly anticipated Eurozone summit might have been short on details, but it has taken little time for the market’s best financial engineers to concoct their own version of events. Eurozone leaders announced that they will look into two ways of leveraging up their bailout fund by four or five times – insuring losses [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKND July 28, 2011 FILM ARRIETTY Animated adventure based on the Borrowers, from Japanese genius Hayao Miyazaki. ZOOKEEPER Seriously misfiring comedy with Kevin James and some talking animals. HORRID HENRY: THE MOVIE The children’s book gets a family-friendly cinematic outing. DVD THE EAGLE The Romans take on the Celts in this so-so adventure, with Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum. RANGO [...]
The Q3: Audi’s likeable compact SUV November 1, 2011 INTERNALLY, Audi calls it “the product firework”. With 12 new models introduced in the last five years and seven more planned for introduction by 2015, it seems the Four Rings can do no wrong. The Ingolstadt manufacturer seems to have an almost alchemic ability to find success in whatever niche it enters. But it is [...]