Going for gold at the Cheltenham Festival March 13, 2011 THE Cheltenham Festival is the biggest betting event of the year, and sports spread betting firms like Sporting Index, Extrabet and Spreadex always go to town at this meeting. With four days of top quality racing, there are plenty of spread markets to get your teeth into, some lasting the entire festival and others focusing [...]
Clitheroe leads the way March 6, 2011 BRITISH distance runner Helen Clitheroe claimed her first ever gold medal at the age of 37 as her teenage team-mate, sprinter Jodie Williams, offered a glimpse of the team’s future at the European Indoor Championships. Clitheroe, whose previous career highlight was 1,500m bronze at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and lost her central funding a year [...]
Clitheroe leads the way March 6, 2011 BRITISH distance runner Helen Clitheroe claimed her first ever gold medal at the age of 37 as her teenage team-mate, sprinter Jodie Williams, offered a glimpse of the team’s future at the European Indoor Championships. Clitheroe, whose previous career highlight was 1,500m bronze at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and lost her central funding a year [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND February 10, 2011 FILMS JUST GO WITH IT Rom com with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston. For masochists only. YOGI BEAR New animated version of the Sixties cartoon, with Dan Ackroyd on “pick-a-nick basket” duties. SON OF BABYLON Iraqi drama about a boy and his grandmother in the chaos of modern Iraq. DVD EAT PRAY LOVE Julia Roberts [...]
Bargain hunters help lift Wall St March 17, 2011 WALL Street rebounded after three days of declines yesterday, but the advance could be temporary as concerns about Japan’s nuclear crisis persisted. The S&P 500 recovered after giving up the year’s gains on Wednesday, but options activity showed traders are increasing hedges against another decline in stocks. “As the headlines come out of Japan, there [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 13, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES LANSLEY TAKES NURSES’ MEDICINE A contrite Andrew Lansley promised nurses a larger role in the commissioning of healthcare after the Royal College of Nursing passed the first vote of “no confidence” in a health secretary in its history. Attending a “listening” exercise with 65 nurses on the fringe of the RCN’s annual congressl, [...]
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS January 5, 2011 DB X-TRACKERS LAUNCHES SHORT EM ETF Deutsche Bank’s exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform, db x-trackers, has today launched Europe’s first ETF that gives automatic short exposure to emerging markets (EM). The ETF provides investors with the daily inverse performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. It is designed for active, short-term traders and is listed on [...]
Chi-X Europe haggles with FSA in bid to avoid Swiss Exchange fee October 6, 2010 CHI-X Europe, the continent’s largest share trading platform, is in talks with Britain’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) to find a way of avoiding new fees the Swiss Exchange will charge for using its price data. The SIX Swiss Exchange plans to impose a new fee of 100,000 Swiss francs (£65,200) on trading rivals, such as [...]
Wall Street suffers in quake aftermath March 14, 2011 US stocks fell in the wake of Japan’s devastating earthquake yesterday, but other than specific industries such as nuclear power, the broad impact on equities was expected to be short-lived. Trading volume was unusually low compared with other sell-offs, coming in at 7.68bn shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange [...]
Nokia US deal falls through January 20, 2011 Nokia’s woes continued yesterday with the announcement that a deal to launch its X7 smartphone on US carrier AT&T has fallen through. The news is a blow for the Finnish firm, which is desperate to push its new range of high-end smartphones. It is understood Nokia lost confidence in the US firm, believing the phone [...]