We can reform London’s rental sector without demonising landlords May 27, 2014 THE SHADOW of Peter Rachman, the epitome of the rogue landlord, still lingers over the rented sector. Yet deregulation in the late 1980s means it is incomparable with the rent-controlled, deteriorating rump stock of old. Today’s rented sector houses a phenomenally diverse 2m Londoners. There isn’t a typical renter. Every income group is represented equally, [...]
Etiquette of email: Inbox blunders that are easily avoided May 27, 2014 Sarcasm and emoticons aren’t the end of the world, but careless replies are WHILE consumer email traffic is set to slow over the next few years, the 108.7bn emails business users will send and receive each day in 2014 is just the start, according to Radicati projections. Indeed, most of us use email so regularly [...]
Major victories for anti-EU and left wing blocs | City A.M. May 27, 2014 ANTI-EU parties saw their vote share soar in many European countries in this weekend’s elections, with the hard left also picking up votes across the bloc. Nearly a third of the seats in the parliament will be taken up by anti-EU parties, according to think tank Open Europe. The share of MEPs that the think [...]
Sony will set up joint venture to sell PS4 in China May 27, 2014 SONY, the Japanese technology giant, has signed a partnership to begin manufacturing and selling its PlayStation 4 console in mainland China. The joint venture with Shanghai-listed Shanghai Oriental Pearl was announced in a stock exchange filing by the state-controlled Chinese media company yesterday. The joint ventures, which will be located in Shanghai’s free trade zone, [...]
CNBC Comment: Putin’s bravado masks financial stress May 26, 2014 VLADIMIR Putin’s pivot to the East can no longer be in any doubt. Attending the St Petersburg Economic Forum (the annual meeting he set up to rival Davos) last week, high profile US attendees, like Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, were notably absent. The most high-profile foreign delegates were from China, like vice premier Li [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: The difference between trading and analysis – a boot camp for novice traders May 26, 2014 TRADERS’ best ideas often turn out to be their worst. It’s almost ironic. Great ideas turn into bad trades, and bad trades turn into lost money. It only takes one of these bad trades to wipe out the profit from hundreds of better ones. Even worse, that one bad trade can snuff out any gains [...]
The four ways to gain credibility in your new role May 26, 2014 Think the hard part is over now you’ve got your dream job? Think again THE GHASTLY interview process is over, and you’re excited about a new challenge. But establishing credibility and adapting to the culture of a new organisation can be tricky. According to accelerating transitions expert Michael D Watkins (who has written a book [...]
Shale will turbocharge UK Plc – but losers must be compensated May 23, 2014 QUESTION: What’s the diff-erence between the Home Counties and Texas? ANSWER: Nothing, if the predictions from the British Geological Survey that there are billions of barrels of oil in shale rocks in Sussex, Hampshire and Kent turn out to be true. It is obvious that this astonishing supply needs to be tapped; it could transform [...]
Boris Johnson makes his final case for a new Estuary airport May 23, 2014 MAYOR of London Boris Johnson has made his final case for a new four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary, arguing that such a scheme could be built by 2029 and support 400,000 jobs across the country. In his latest submission to the government’s airports commission, Johnson insisted the airport “faces no insuperable obstacles to its [...]
Spotlight on financial fair play in football: Uefa’s new fair play rules are called offside | City A.M. May 23, 2014 THE FAIRNESS of football’s so-called financial fair play (FFP) rules, which last week saw English champions Manchester City hit with a raft of punishments, was the overriding theme of last night’s City A.M. roundtable event. The debate, sponsored by BT Sport and held at its City of London premises, attracted a stellar audience, including former FA [...]