Sailing on the high seas with pirates, yachts and brokers galore January 9, 2011 WHAT do you do when you’ve done the rounds at a clutch of investment banks and stockbroking firms? Well, write a novel about the thrilling world of super-yachts, pirates and international finance, of course. And that’s exactly how Adam Wilson, non-exec chairman of Atlantic Coal, former managing director of Hichens Harrison and founder of Teather [...]
Has the snow hit your Christmas shopping? December 21, 2010 MATT HAWKER | ZENITH BANK “I wasn’t really affected as I did most of my shopping early – although I have done less shopping online than other Christmases.” GRAEME IRWIN | ALEXANDER DAVID SECURITY “No, I’m an old fashioned shopper so tend to buy presents and take them home from work with me. I’ve done [...]
US cheer sees S&P hit a two-year high December 20, 2010 US stocks tacked on further gains to push the S&P 500 to a two-year high yesterday, continuing a steady upward march investors believe will continue in 2011. Volume was light, as is expected through the rest of 2010. Investors stayed with sectors that have led a sharp December rally, including financials, energy and materials stocks. [...]
US cheer sees S&P hit a two-year high December 20, 2010 US stocks tacked on further gains to push the S&P 500 to a two-year high yesterday, continuing a steady upward march investors believe will continue in 2011. Volume was light, as is expected through the rest of 2010. Investors stayed with sectors that have led a sharp December rally, including financials, energy and materials stocks. [...]
QUEEN OF THE NET QUITS MORGAN STANLEY November 29, 2010 MARY Meeker, the Morgan Stanley internet analyst, dubbed the “Queen of the Net” as she shot to fame in the 1990s dot-com-boom era, is leaving Wall Street to join the powerful venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner. The firm was one of the prime backers of the early wave of internet [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 3, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES CHINA TRAVEL GROUP PULLS OUT OF AIM Et-China.com International Holdings, the Chinese travel specialist, will today become the first company to quit Aim this year. Shares in the company, which raised £4.4m at 127p a share when it joined Aim in August 2007, were suspended at 103 1/2p in July because of its [...]
London could be the new Silicon Valley January 26, 2011 GOOGLE, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Facebook. What do they have in common? Yes, yes, they are all giants of the internet age, brand new companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars as they transform the world economy. But they are also all not British. London – with more top universities than any other city in [...]
Tablets are this year’s turn-on for gadget lovers December 8, 2010 TECH TALK The must-have present this year is a tablet. If you can’t afford an iPad an Android is arguably much better value. Are tablets sexy? I suppose they are if you can watch certain movies. But which blue tablets are the best? The Binatone HomeSurf 8 Touch Tablet is an eight incher. The similarities [...]
Tablets are this year’s turn-on for gadget lovers December 8, 2010 TECH TALK The must-have present this year is a tablet. If you can’t afford an iPad an Android is arguably much better value. Are tablets sexy? I suppose they are if you can watch certain movies. But which blue tablets are the best? The Binatone HomeSurf 8 Touch Tablet is an eight incher. The similarities [...]
John Lewis is ranked among influential list November 14, 2010 RETAIL giant John Lewis has surged into a ranking of Britain’s most influential brands, as the group’s partnership approach to doing business and a record year for till receipts propelled it into the top three. TLG’s annual index of UK Business Thought Leaders ranks John Lewis below Apple and Google but above other respected names [...]