Modest rise in number of City roles in October November 16, 2010 THE City’s financial services sector saw a five per cent rise in the number of jobs created last month to 4,977, a survey will say today. The Morgan McKinley London Employment Monitor claims job availability also increased by 13 per cent year-on-year. The number of professionals looking for new roles in the City last month [...]
Invasion of the smart machines January 30, 2011 MY house isn’t smart enough. To get inside it I have to open the door myself. With a key. When I walk in, a digital voice doesn’t greet me, realise I’ve had a bad day and tell me a joke to cheer me up (I’m imagining a soothing voice like Hal from 2001: A Space [...]
Invasion of the smart machines January 30, 2011 MY house isn’t smart enough. To get inside it I have to open the door myself. With a key. When I walk in, a digital voice doesn’t greet me, realise I’ve had a bad day and tell me a joke to cheer me up (I’m imagining a soothing voice like Hal from 2001: A Space [...]
CITY PUBLIC AFFAIRS LANDSCAPE DUE FOR A SHAKE-UP AS TIM BURT LEAVES BRUNSWICK December 1, 2010 TIME for some fresh blood in City public affairs, it seems, with the founding of a brand new financial PR firm by Brunswick partner Tim Burt. Burt is set to launch Stockwell Group along with the former chief executive of Maitland Philip Gawith and Financial Dynamics co-founder Julian Hanson-Smith, both of whom will be on [...]
Demand for homes falling, finds survey November 28, 2010 DEMAND for homes fell at the fastest rate for nearly two years last month as buyer confidence dipped, industry figures showed. The number of new buyers registering with agents fell by 4.3 per cent in November, according to the monthly national housing survey from property website Hometrack. The monthly fall was the fifth in a row [...]
Reduced real income will hit retail October 24, 2010 RETAIL sales fell in September for the second month in a row. Real incomes are suffering and consumer confidence is weak. Some are questioning whether Apple’s disappointing iPad sales figures last week are a sign of things to come. So should spread betters take the hint and shun the sector? Demand certainly looks like it [...]
Reduced real income will hit retail October 24, 2010 RETAIL sales fell in September for the second month in a row. Real incomes are suffering and consumer confidence is weak. Some are questioning whether Apple’s disappointing iPad sales figures last week are a sign of things to come. So should spread betters take the hint and shun the sector? Demand certainly looks like it [...]
New Google Nexus set to hit UK in next few weeks November 16, 2010 THE NEW Google phone is set to hit UK stores in the next few weeks, as exclusively revealed by City A.M. last month. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has unveiled a new phone running its Android operating system – believed to be the second version of its Nexus branded handset – that will hit stores [...]
New Google Nexus set to hit UK in next few weeks November 16, 2010 THE NEW Google phone is set to hit UK stores in the next few weeks, as exclusively revealed by City A.M. last month. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has unveiled a new phone running its Android operating system – believed to be the second version of its Nexus branded handset – that will hit stores [...]
HEDGIES FORK OUT FOR CHARITY AS LORD ARCHER HOSTS THE AUCTION December 13, 2010 HEDGE fund philanthropists had one of their biggest galas of the year this past weekend, thanks to a fundraiser by Hedge Fund Care, a fund chaired by Robert Mirsky that makes grants to charities fighting child abuse and neglect. 400 or so of the industry’s finest donned their finest blacktie and arrived for a three-course [...]