Horse Racing Betting Tips: Addeybb can serve it up to Japan in Prince Of Wales’s Stakes June 16, 2020 TRAINER Aidan O’Brien didn’t take long to get off the mark at this year’s Royal meeting when Circus Maximus landed the Queen Anne Stakes and he will fancy he chances of landing the feature on day two. Japan heads the betting for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (3.00pm) and hasn’t been seen in action since [...]
Johanna Kyrklund: Is retail investor surge cause for caution? June 15, 2020 With a combination of resurgent markets, seemingly ebullient retail investors and a bleak economic outlook, it may be prudent to tread carefully. It’s an old investment cliché that when your taxi driver starts giving you share tips, it’s time to sell. As someone who has been on the receiving end of cabbie investment advice during [...]
Crypto Seen From Space: Creating The Right Mindset For Growth June 11, 2020 The other night, while on my terrace, sheltered under a flimsy tarp, I had one of those ‘moments of insight’ (it seemed meaningful at the time). Rain poured from the sky in volumes exchanges can only dream of with the local weather observatory classifying the storm as ‘black rain’. Waiting it out, I stumbled upon [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Borges can score aboard V Chevaliers June 9, 2020 PUNTERS will be hoping for a change of fortune at Happy Valley on Wednesday. They are currently having to suffer while their favoured jockeys, Zac Purton and Joao Moreira, are enduring a torrid sequence of poor results. A combined total of just three wins from their last 30 rides is a poor return for their army [...]
Government ditches plan for primary pupils to return by July June 9, 2020 Boris Johnson’s plans for all primary school pupils in England to return to school by July has been dropped by the government. Education secretary Gavin Williamson rowed back on government plans, saying “not all” children will be able to go back to classroom teaching for a full month before the summer. The Prime Minister last [...]
Gap reports $932m quarterly loss due to coronavirus closures June 5, 2020 Gap this morning reported a quarterly loss of almost $1bn after the clothing retailer was forced to close its stores during the coronavirus pandemic. The US retail giant reported a net loss of $932m, or $2.51 per share, in the three months to 2 May, including a $484m writedown on store and operating lease assets [...]
Coronavirus: Local lockdowns could be implemented in England May 27, 2020 English towns and cities could be placed back into full lockdown to suppress coronavirus “flare ups”, according to communities secretary Robert Jenrick. The local lockdowns would be implemented as a part of the government’s Covid-19 track and trace programme, which could be introduced as early as tomorrow. It will mean schools and non-essential retail businesses, [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on AAX May 26, 2020 AAX, the first digital asset exchange to be powered by LSEG Technology, and the first exchange to be a member of London Stock Exchange Group’s Partner Platform, is on a mission to connect crypto to global finance. From discussions over a forum and silent experimentation, Bitcoin and with it an entire industry has come a [...]
Volkswagen defeated in German ‘dieselgate’ case May 26, 2020 Volkswagen was yesterday defeated in a key German court case claiming compensation for drivers mis-sold vehicles by the car giant as part of the emissions rigging scandal. The ruling by Germany’s highest court for civil disputes, which will allow owners to return vehicles for a partial refund of the purchase price, serves as a template [...]
Could group action claims explode in post-coronavirus crisis litigation boom? May 7, 2020 Lawyers and litigation funders are increasingly looking at group action lawsuits in England and Wales as a way of holding major companies to account. After the last financial crisis litigation spiked as contractual counterparties fell out and consumers and shareholders pursued banks for wrongdoing. The litigation landscape in the English legal system has changed over [...]