USA hit by Altidore injury blow June 3, 2010 ENGLAND’S opening-match opponents USA suffered an injury blow yesterday when striker Jozy Altidore was hospitalised with an ankle problem. Altidore, who spent last season on loan at Hull, underwent an X-ray and was diagnosed with a sprain. The 20-year-old, who has nine goals in 25 international appearances, is a doubt for USA’s final warm-up match [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND June 17, 2010 FILM WILD TARGET Brit comedy thriller with Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt. PLEASE GIVE Charming indie drama starring Rebecca Hall. TRASH HUMPERS Hipster provocateur Harmony Korine’s latest effort. DVD INVICTUS Morgan Freeman is Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s rugby flick. CRAZY HEART Jeff Bridges wins an Oscar as a burnt-out country musician. EDGE OF DARKNESS [...]
Money supply starts to feel effects of QE June 2, 2010 THE Bank of England received some welcome news today after its preferred measure of broad money supply finally showed strong growth. M4X, which excludes activity between intermediate financial institutions, grew at a three-month annualised rate of 6.6 per cent in April. This is a pace not seen since before the collapse of Bear Stearns and [...]
Money supply starts to feel effects of QE June 2, 2010 THE Bank of England received some welcome news today after its preferred measure of broad money supply finally showed strong growth. M4X, which excludes activity between intermediate financial institutions, grew at a three-month annualised rate of 6.6 per cent in April. This is a pace not seen since before the collapse of Bear Stearns and [...]
Chi-X boss covets top slot among bourses February 15, 2010 Pan-European share trading platform Chi-X Europe, Europe’s third-biggest trading platform after just three years in business, has broken into profit and aims to become Europe’s number one exchange, its new chief executive said. Chi-X has become profitable on a daily basis this year, making it the first European multilateral trading facility (MTF) to do so, [...]
Understanding exposure to counterparty risk is crucial July 7, 2010 RISK is an acceptable, even a welcomed part of trading. Every trade comes with some risk attached; it’s just a case of knowing what the potential problems are and being comfortable with them. But as the financial crisis showed, pinpointing where the risk lies is not always so straightforward – even big institutions didn’t always [...]
Understanding exposure to counterparty risk is crucial July 7, 2010 RISK is an acceptable, even a welcomed part of trading. Every trade comes with some risk attached; it’s just a case of knowing what the potential problems are and being comfortable with them. But as the financial crisis showed, pinpointing where the risk lies is not always so straightforward – even big institutions didn’t always [...]
My corporate jet is easyJet: meet the platform boss taking on the LSE May 17, 2010 HE TALKS LOUDLY and moves fast. Alasdair Haynes, the chief executive of the pan-European trading platform Chi-X Europe, cuts a larger than life figure. The boss of the trading platform, which has grabbed a 30 per cent share of FTSE 100 trading from long-established rival the London Stock Exchange (LSE) since it was set up [...]
Meet the CEO of the most important City firm you have never heard of October 24, 2010 As he saunters into his office in the City, Tim Howell, the chief executive of European settlement house Euroclear, looks cool and collected. He certainly doesn’t look like a man caught in the most classic of all business squeezes – with clients wanting him to improve his services while being adamant they should pay less [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND May 20, 2010 FILM BAD LIEUTENANT Nick Cage stars as a corrupt cop in Werner Herzog’s controversial remake. COP OUT Bruce Willis plays an NYPD detective in Kevin Smith’s crime comedy. HEARTLESS Supernatural thriller set in London’s urban ganglands, with Jim Sturgess. DVD SHERLOCK HOLMES Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law are Holmes and Watson in Guy Ritchie’s [...]