NYC sends a slice of Gallic heaven May 31, 2010 Bar Boulud Mandarin Oriental, 66 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LA, tel: 020 7201 3899 Cost per person without wine: £45 THE name Daniel Boulud is a huge deal in New York, where everything is either a huge deal or offensively passe. The Lyon-born chef’s cluster of Manhattan eateries has managed to remain on the “huge deal” side [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND April 8, 2010 FILM I AM LOVE Tilda Swinton stars in this beguiling romantic drama. SHELTER Preposterous thriller about multiple personality disorders, with Julianne Moore. NO GREATER LOVE Absorbing documentary about a Carmelite monastery in West London. DVD 30 ROCK SEASON 3 Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin return in the comic look at US TV. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER REGENERATION [...]
Alternative exchanges give traders an edge March 8, 2010 ANOTHER shake-up of London’s trading landscape is underway after the London Stock Exchange (LSE) announced on Monday that it would sell 9 per cent of Turquoise, its European trading facility, to three investment banks. Barclays, JP Morgan Cazenove and Nomura each bought a 3 per cent stake of Turquoise for £1m. The multiple owners of [...]
LIGHTS, CAMERA… April 13, 2010 Lumis Uno projector from Sim2 It’s not cheap, but this projector is one of the most advanced on the market, and will turn your home cinema into the ultimate private screening room. £18,000 www.sim2.co.uk Cara blu-ray player from Denon The Cara condenses technology from many of Denon’s flagship audio and video devices into a single, [...]
ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY ENJOYS A RETURN TO THE TRADING FLOOR June 23, 2010 ACTOR and Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey is becoming quite the dab hand on the trading floor, if reports from our Stateside friends are to be believed. Bankers at Citigroup in New York were astonished last week when Spacey popped into their offices to do a spot of research for his new movie, Margin [...]
Get a lunchtime appetite for running in the #4miler August 1, 2010 EVER thought about upping your fitness levels but just can’t find enough hours in the day? Well, here is an initiative just for you. City.A.M have teamed up with Garmin, leaders in satellite navigation, to bring you the #4miler – giving City workers the chance to reclaim their lunch hours by keeping fit in a [...]
King’s X commuters face strikes November 11, 2009 Train drivers at First Capital Connect (FCC) are being balloted on strike action in a fall-out over pay. Aslef, the drivers’ union, said the ballot will close on 9 December, as drivers decide whether to take action on a two-year pay offer. The walkout would hit commuters on the East Anglia to King’s Cross line. [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND March 4, 2010 FILM LEGION Supernatural thriller with Paul Bettany as an angel saving the world from God’s wrath. Sure. ONDINE Colin Farrell plays an Irish fisherman who thinks he’s caught a mermaid in his net. CASE 39 Squinty-eyed Renee Zellwegger is a social worker working with a seriously creepy kid. DVD FANTASTIC MR FOX Stop-motion animation of [...]
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS March 17, 2010 BASIC RESOURCES ETF OUTPERFORM Basic resource-related ETFs issued by ETF Securities saw fantastic performance last week as investors regained their appetite for risk. The ETFX Dow Jones STOXX 600 Basic Resources Fund rose by over 9 per cent last week and the ETF is up 130.9 per cent on this time last year. The ETFX [...]
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS March 10, 2010 DEUTSCHE OFFERS INDONESIA ETF Deutsche Bank’s ETF division db x-trackers has launched the world’s first UCITS III-compliant China and Indonesia ETFs. Listed in Singapore, the China ETF tracks the CSI 300, which replicates the performance of A-shares that are listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen indexes. DB x-trackers is scheduled to launch the Indonesia ETF, [...]