What investors are looking for in today’s US jobs report May 2, 2014 Investors are hooked on this afternoon's US jobs market report. We've got the critical nonfarm payrolls (NFP) number coming up, and analysts expect to see that 215,000 jobs were created this April. If that happens, it'll be the strongest month for the US labour market since November, the month before the country saw a period [...]
Explaining Britain’s housing crisis with one simple chart April 15, 2014 Want to understand what’s driving stunning UK house price growth? The answer lies with a lack of planning permits, says Sam Bowman, research director at the Adam Smith Institute. Data released todays shows headline inflation has fallen to an October 2009 low, trundling along at 1.6 per cent in the year to March. Yet house [...]
Explaining Britain’s housing crisis with one simple chart April 15, 2014 Want to understand what's driving stunning UK house price growth? The answer lies with a lack of planning permits, says Sam Bowman, research director at the Adam Smith Institute. Data released todays shows headline inflation has fallen to an October 2009 low, trundling along at 1.6 per cent in the year to March. Yet house [...]
West End boosts Great Portland July 25, 2013 Great Portland Estates yesterday said its portfolio rose by 3.3 per cent in value to £2.37bn in the second quarter as demand for office space in central London continued “unabated”. The developer, which owns swathes of property in the West End, saw its net asset value grow by four per cent to 464p per share [...]
This Pick ‘n’ Mix giant is getting in the big guns February 3, 2014 (Flickr) The pick ‘n’ mix market may seem at the lower end of the corporate finance spectrum but it’s big business for private equity-backed Tangerine Confectionary, the northern-based manufacturer of some of the UK’s favourite sweets. Tangerine produces a host of iconic British sweets. Remember Black Jacks? Well, it makes them. And Fruit Salads? Yep [...]
Put a Spring in your step March 5, 2014 The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the winter is over. It’s time to branch out and discover lighter options for work Canali lilac cotton shirt Canali’s shirts are made by specialist Italian tailors in Italy. This lilac shade with a contrasting collar and cuffs is perfectly light for spring. £140 mrporter.com Paul [...]
The rise and rise of indie games February 12, 2014 Flappy Bird may be gone, but independent gaming is in rude health IT’S ALL over. Any Flappy Bird players who didn’t get in at the ground floor may never get the chance to pilot that charmless chick through an endless series of decidedly Mario-esque pipes. Nguyen Ha Dong, the Vietnamese developer who released the infuriating, [...]
Where’s Jony? Apple designer Ive goes offline February 17, 2014 APPLE’S chief design wizard Sir Jony Ive sent the tech world into a spin yesterday when he disappeared from the company’s online list of executives. The Apple rumour mill went into overdrive: “Has he been poached by Microsoft?” “Has he quit over the Flappy Bird clone ban?” “Has he moved back to the UK to [...]
Mr Smith goes to London February 6, 2014 It may have escaped your knowledge that Great Britain harbours the only watchmaker in the world capable of making his watches entirely by hand. But it certainly hadn’t passed No. 10 unnoticed, and the Isle of Man’s Roger Smith was an immediately obvious candidate for the UK government’s international “GREAT Britain” campaign, promoting our nation’s [...]
Candy Crush maker King’s $500m IPO on its way February 18, 2014 The developer of addictive puzzle solving games, King, has confirmed that it's going to market. The company has filed for a $500m initial public offering. It boats 324m monthly unique users, and offers a portfolio of over 180 games. King hopes to list ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticket symbol [...]