Going West: London welcomes a new FX brokerage October 13, 2013 Annabel Palmer meets the founders of Monex Capital, who are targeting tech savvy traders DESPITE the Asian Development Bank lowering its growth forecasts for emerging nations in the region earlier this month, European brokers are launching Asian-based subsidiaries in droves (forex and commodities brokerage MIG Bank, for example, opened a Hong Kong arm this year). [...]
Why Britain’s 4G roll-out could give mobile trading a performance boost September 3, 2013 But the implications of taking positions on the move have yet to reach their logical conclusion COMPETITION has arrived in the UK’s 4G market, promising superfast download speeds on the move. Previously monopolised by the operator EE, O2 and Vodafone have just rolled out 4G mobile internet connections to their customers in London, with O2 [...]
Stay away from prying eyes online August 28, 2013 effortlessactuality.com ONCE upon a time, there was a quaint idea that a conversation between two people was private. In light of revelations that the US’s NSA and the UK’s GCHQ are able to intercept private emails and phone calls, as leaked by Edward Snowden, it’s hard to imagine that anything we do or say these [...]
La Casa Negra Shoreditch restaurant review: achingly hip Mexican food with added attitude July 17, 2013 Street food. That’s a thing. Street food! Isn’t it great? It reminds me of that time I was travelling in Guatemala, and some indigenous people were just, you know, making food in the street, and it was all, like, totally authentic. Except that never happened. I’ve forced down slimy noodles in Tokyo; binned inedible grey [...]
Soaring food inflation erases effect of falling non-food prices December 4, 2012 ANNUAL food price inflation accelerated in the year to November, but a return to deflation in some non-food prices provided a counterweight to keep overall shop price inflation steady. Food was 4.6 per cent more expensive in November than it was a year before, according to data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), an inflation rate 0.6 [...]
Getting to grips with the all-new MetaTrader April 9, 2012 THE latest version of the MetaTrader platform has been launched in the UK. MetaTrader 5 offers a raft of new features, designed with the aim of making the professional trading experience available to the retail trader (see below, right). Alpari is one of the first to offer the latest incarnation of the MetaTrader platform. “MT5 [...]
Ten observations on a historic election for the United States November 7, 2012 1 The popular vote was very close: 50.4-48.1 per cent, and a gap of 2.8m votes, against 52.9-45.7 per cent and 9.5m votes in 2008. Obama’s lead was cut from 7.2 points to 2.3 points. However, Obama triumphed in all of the swing states. 2 Many factors destroyed Romney: he was a poor candidate with [...]
Ten observations on a historic election for the United States November 7, 2012 1 The popular vote was very close: 50.4-48.1 per cent, and a gap of 2.8m votes, against 52.9-45.7 per cent and 9.5m votes in 2008. Obama’s lead was cut from 7.2 points to 2.3 points. However, Obama triumphed in all of the swing states. 2 Many factors destroyed Romney: he was a poor candidate with [...]
A comedic look at US suburban dystopia May 17, 2012 THEATRE DETROIT The National, Cottesloe Theatre | Zoe Strimpel *** WRITTEN by American playwright Lisa D’Amour for Chicago’s brilliant Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and received gushing reviews in the US. Now at the National’s tiny Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Steppenwolf’s formidable Austin Pendleton but with [...]
Our economy and housing supply are being held back by planning: Liberalise now November 22, 2011 THE roots of our urban and housing crises began in the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. This created the current planning framework where all major private property changes are subject to state veto. All land released for housing has to be approved by councils. Councils tell developers what they should build and where it [...]