Interiors December 8, 2010 If hitting the shops doesn’t appeal, you can find a world of exciting goodies online. Portero.com is a luxury auction site for accessories where all items are certified and quality checked – it’s like Ebay with insurance, so you can pick up a Birkin in mint condition. For less designer and more organic, etsy.com has [...]
Home-builders ramp up incentives to lure hard-up first-time buyers December 2, 2010 HOME-BUILDERS have always offered buyers deals, but some are more valuable than others. Take, for example, the West Bromwich Building Society’s offer in 2004 of a free Rover car worth over £7,000 – a year before the car-maker went into administration. The downturn has left house-builders with new-builds sitting empty all over the country, and [...]
Alliance Boots predicts strong Xmas as acquisitions boost half year figures November 3, 2010 ALLIANCE Boots said it was expecting a Christmas trade boost from its new ranges while acquisitions had ensured solid half-year figures. The company’s same-store revenues for its health and beauty division grew by two per cent to £3.4bn, it reported yesterday. Revenues for the whole group rose by six per cent to £8.9bn. Finance director [...]
Alliance Boots predicts strong Xmas as acquisitions boost half year figures November 3, 2010 ALLIANCE Boots said it was expecting a Christmas trade boost from its new ranges while acquisitions had ensured solid half-year figures. The company’s same-store revenues for its health and beauty division grew by two per cent to £3.4bn, it reported yesterday. Revenues for the whole group rose by six per cent to £8.9bn. Finance director [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 13, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES F&C OPPOSES US POLITICAL DONATIONS BY NEWS CORPORATION F&C, the UK asset manager, will vote against the re-election of News Corp’s audit committee chairman at its upcoming annual meeting on Friday over the media group’s million-dollar political donations to the Republican Governors Association and the US Chamber of Commerce.“We are concerned to see [...]
Why the love of your life is just a click away February 9, 2011 CHRISTMAS and New Year are over. You’re feeling fat, poor, anxious and – if you’re single – panicked. What do you do? You vow to go on a diet, you cut back on the expensive nights out and, in the hopes of sticking to the one resolution you really care about, you sign up to [...]
THE TIPSTER November 14, 2010 THE minutes from this month’s Bank of England meeting will push sterling’s fortunes back into the spotlight. The outlook for the pound has been somewhat eclipsed by the euro in recent days given concerns over the Irish economy. Certainly any suggestion in the minutes that there is mounting support for a second round of QE [...]
THE TIPSTER November 21, 2010 THE run-up to Christmas truly gets underway this week with US Thanksgiving on Thursday. Historically this has given equity markets a boost as a result of improved sentiment and as the festive sentiment rubs off on investors. This could prompt a rally in the Dow. Capital Spreads quotes 11,165-11,167 for the index. US dollar strength [...]
THE TIPSTER November 21, 2010 THE run-up to Christmas truly gets underway this week with US Thanksgiving on Thursday. Historically this has given equity markets a boost as a result of improved sentiment and as the festive sentiment rubs off on investors. This could prompt a rally in the Dow. Capital Spreads quotes 11,165-11,167 for the index. US dollar strength [...]
Upbeat Swann’s itching to get started November 21, 2010 GRAEME SWANN cannot wait to open the final window of his Ashes advent calendar as the excitement and anticipation builds towards a crescendo ahead of the first Test at the Gabba on Thursday. The world’s premier spin bowler has been patiently ticking off the days ever since the touring party landed in Perth at the [...]