CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 22, 2009 MercerThe consulting and outsourcing business has appointed Monica Santiago as head of its health and benefits business in the UK. Santiago was previously chief operating officer for Mercer’s health and benefits business in Europe and, prior to that, was business leader for Portugal. She takes over her new London-based role from David Levey, who becomes [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 30, 2009 TalkTalkThe broadband provider has appointed David Cooper as chief information officer. Cooper will be responsible for the firm’s IT systems and, in particular, will oversee the integration of those systems with Tiscali UK, which it acquired in May for £236m. He previously worked at BT during the 1980s and 1990s, and most recently spent seven [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 1, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES SCRAPPAGE INCENTIVES REVIVE CAR DEMAND Car sales rose in several big European and Asian markets last month, lifted largely by government scrapping incentives aimed at reviving consumer demand. The numbers give weight to the notion that stimulus measures are pulling the global motor industry out of its deep downturn, but carmakers and industry [...]
EUROPEAN REPORT May 18, 2009 EUROPEAN equities closed higher yesterday as financial stocks climbed on hopes a recession in top global economies was abating, while energy shares tracked higher crude oil prices. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares closed 2.4 per cent higher at 859.88 points after falling as low as 827.32. The index, which slumped 45 per [...]
EUROPEAN REPORT May 18, 2009 EUROPEAN equities closed higher yesterday as financial stocks climbed on hopes a recession in top global economies was abating, while energy shares tracked higher crude oil prices. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares closed 2.4 per cent higher at 859.88 points after falling as low as 827.32. The index, which slumped 45 per [...]
EUROPEAN REPORT May 25, 2009 EUROPEAN shares closed higher yesterday with Sanofi Aventis leading pharmaceuticals higher after winning a US contract, and some analysts choosing to interpret a leading German economic survey positively. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares rose 0.3 per cent to a provisional close of 858.57 points, after two sessions of losses. But trade was [...]
‘POLO IN THE PARK’ FOUNDER PUTS HIS CITY BROKERAGE ON THE BLOCK May 28, 2009 EXCITEMENT is hotting up around next week’s Polo in the Park extravaganza at Hurlington Park – the brainchild of Daniel Fox-Davies, founder of the City broking firm of the same name. Fox-Davies – or Foxy, as some cheeky colleagues like to call him – recently set up the World Polo Association with the intention of [...]