Economic news drives quiet week for trading March 25, 2012 TODAY Investors in highly volatile oil and exploration stocks could face surprises this week, as some small-cap firms report, but the UK market should start off quietly. Volume may pick up in the afternoon with pending home sales from the US. Given mildly disappointing existing home sales figures last week, pending home sales could also [...]
Economic news drives quiet week for trading March 25, 2012 TODAY Investors in highly volatile oil and exploration stocks could face surprises this week, as some small-cap firms report, but the UK market should start off quietly. Volume may pick up in the afternoon with pending home sales from the US. Given mildly disappointing existing home sales figures last week, pending home sales could also [...]
Moving from commercials to content May 9, 2012 WE’RE about to have the kind of summer that advertisers dream of. The combined effect of the Olympics, the Euro 2012 football championship and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will sharply push up bookings, even as the macro economic environment darkens. ITV yesterday said it expected its own ad revenues to jump by between 12 and [...]
Iceland’s stunning comeback gives Eurozone food for thought June 12, 2012 GUESS which developed country could enjoy the fastest growth this year? Come on? Alright, then – it’s Iceland. Its economy expanded by 2.4 per cent quarter on quarter in the first three months of the year, its fastest pace since its meltdown, boosted by exports, tourism and consumption. Annual economic growth was 4.5 per cent, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 13, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Canary Wharf claims high ground on City Canary Wharf will finally come of age over the next two months when the UK’s “new” financial centre overtakes the traditional City of London as the biggest employer of bankers in Europe. According to Financial Times research, the transfer of 8,000 jobs by US bank JPMorgan [...]
House prices down by one third in four years after inflation February 27, 2012 HOUSE prices in the UK have plummeted by a third, in real terms, since the middle of 2007, according to figures released this morning. Although prices declined by a modest one per cent last year, the overall drop since the credit crunch is even sharper than in Spain, where prices are down 27 per cent, [...]
Your trading and politics should be mixed carefully May 28, 2012 The editor of the popular Guido Fawkes’ blog gives his tips IWAS a futures broker in my twenties, mostly interest rate futures – I did a bit of bond dealing, mainly in sovereigns rather than corporates. I got fired from the Japanese investment bank I was working at in the late 1990s and a friend [...]
PROPERTY NEWS March 29, 2012 Savills selling historic Provencal mas Savills is selling Mas de l’Hospitalet, a historic Provencal mas where Oscar winning actor, Jean Dujardin held his wedding ceremony in 2009. The property dates back to the 12th century and was built by Templar Knights on the order of the King of France. Currently, the property is a boutique [...]
HarperCollins gets mega boost from e-books March 28, 2012 MURDOCH-owned publishing house HarperCollins saw revenues reach a three-year high in its UK division last year. Sales of digital books grew seven-fold as tablets and e-readers invaded the market, driving turnover up 4.7 per cent to £254m in the year to June 2011. HarperCollins, which publishes classic British authors including JRR Tolkein, CS Lewis and Agatha Christie, [...]
HarperCollins gets mega boost from e-books March 28, 2012 MURDOCH-owned publishing house HarperCollins saw revenues reach a three-year high in its UK division last year. Sales of digital books grew seven-fold as tablets and e-readers invaded the market, driving turnover up 4.7 per cent to £254m in the year to June 2011. HarperCollins, which publishes classic British authors including JRR Tolkein, CS Lewis and Agatha Christie, [...]