After the Nvidelity comes the Huangover. Jensen Huang joins long list who confused boardroom and bedroom
DailyFX Tips & Picks: Short-term and long-term trading: The pros and cons June 23, 2014 ONE great thing about the FX market is choice. You can trade a multitude of time-frames, with short-term trading the most popular. In fact, the average trader trades three times per day. Short-term trading can be anything from “scalping” to “intraday” trading. Scalping means entering and exiting a trade over a very short period, usually [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: Analyst’s pick June 23, 2014 CURRENCY STRATEGIST CHRIS VECCHIO My pick: Waiting for euro-dollar, euro-yen range breaks Expertise: Fundamental and technical analysis with risk management Average time frame of trades: A few hours to a few weeks With European bond yields falling, equities rising in price, and the euro staying elevated in the wake of the ECB meeting, we can [...]
Smart 10 minute tricks that’ll turn your day around June 23, 2014 Transforming how you work doesn’t have to be a long, hard slog If you're looking to become more productive, there’s certainly no shortage of ideas. And yet time-wasting never seems to disappear: a recent survey by Salary.com found that 69 per cent of people say they waste at least half an hour at work every [...]
How to take the stress out of emails June 22, 2014 Follow the OHIO principle and don’t get sucked into the black hole of perpetual filing Email was supposed to make life easier. But low-cost electronic communication has left some office workers drowning in a swamp of irrelevant messages. According to a recent study by technology research firm The Radicati Group, the average office worker receives [...]
Four luxury penthouses unveiled at NEO Bankside on the Southbank June 20, 2014 ANOTHER week, another luxury penthouse. No new residential development in London is complete unless it has a £12m monster sitting astride it, while the rest of the inferior apartments peek up at it in envy. Perhaps it’s to create a natural hierarchy in the block, a way of fostering that “keeping up with the Jones’” [...]
Focus On… Peckham: Only fools wouldn’t invest in SE15 June 20, 2014 PECKHAM has come a long way since Del Boy and Rodney. The Nag’s Head might still be there, but these days you’re more likely to bump into artists making things than cockney geezers on the make. And it isn’t just artists. Parts of Peckham are actually quite posh now. Bellenden village, with its smart pubs, [...]
How to buy a slice of history in the Floridian sun June 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL property hunters with a fondness for the halcyon days of the Rat Pack may want to take a flutter on a new Richard Meier and Nadim Ashi designed development on the Miami coast. The state of the art complex called The Surf Club lies on the site of a club that was a favourite [...]
Was this Primrose Hill mansion King Edward VII’s secret love nest? June 20, 2014 EVERY street corner in London tells a thousand stories, and the same can be said of its buildings. But an unassuming family home in Primrose Hill, north London, probably has a few novels under its roof, given its connections to royal scandals and the invention of daylight savings time. Elsworthy Road is on the market [...]
Wood you buy a home like this? Meet London’s new timber homes June 20, 2014 AN ENGLISHMAN’S home is his castle and his castle is almost always made out of bricks and mortar. Many house buyers take these building materials – along with stone and concrete masonry – for granted but it’s actually something of a national obsession. In Southern Germany and Austria, the cold mountain climate is perfect for [...]
As a leading Chinese banker says Brexit would not be disastrous, are the warnings overdone? June 20, 2014 Ruth Lea, economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, says Yes. Wang Hongzhang’s comments are welcome and significant. As chairman of the huge China Construction Bank (CCB), named as the first Chinese bank designated for offshore renminbi trading in London, he cannot be ignored. By observing that “it is the age of globalisation”, he pinpoints [...]