Two of the ECB’s most hawkish members just hinted at QE March 25, 2014 The heads of both the German and Finnish central banks, two of the most hawkish in the Eurozone, talked with relative ease about negative rates and quantitative easing (QE) today. According to Reuters, Germany and Finland’s governing council members are among the most hawkish in the currency union. Finland’s Erkki Liikanen told the Wall Street [...]
Entrepreneur accidentally donates $13,000 to fund doge-themed race car March 25, 2014 The founder of payments platform Moolah.io has suffered from something of a fat finger. Instead of donating 2m Dogecoin to the fundraiser “Doge4Nascar”, while hungover Alex Green managed to accidentally enter an extra zero, and ended up giving 20m Dogecoin ($13,200) to the cause. Writing on Reddit, he blamed his “silly keyboard”, but says that [...]
CNBC Comment: Alibaba float splits investor opinion March 24, 2014 FROM advisers to potential investors, many are salivating over the forthcoming Alibaba listing stateside. Investors who dabbled in Facebook and Twitter will now have access to the champion of Chinese internet players, where e-commerce is booming. According to China Internet Network Information Center, China ended 2013 with 618m internet users, 500m of which were mobile [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: You can be wrong half of the time and still profitable March 24, 2014 HOW IS this possible and how can you leverage this? Well, if you gain 2 per cent of your account every time you book a gain and only loss 1 per cent on your bad trades, you will still be ahead. You will on average take two steps forward when gaining and only take one [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: Analyst’s pick March 24, 2014 CURRENCY STRATEGIST CHRIS VECCHIO My pick: Out of euro long, looking short post-FOMC meeting Expertise: Fundamental and technical analysis Average time frame of trades: A few hours to a few weeks A more hawkish Federal Open Market Committee (thanks to Fed chair Janet Yellen’s hint that the first rate hike could come around six months [...]
Six tips for saying no to your boss March 24, 2014 Too much of a people-pleaser? But declining requests could be good for your career AS WARREN Buffett famously said: “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” It’s a sensible mantra, but it’s also easier said than done. Most of us fear that declining [...]
All about talent March 23, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks to OgilvyOne’s EMEA chief executive Annette King WHEN WPP launched its “X-Factor” coaching programme for senior female executives across its European agencies, Annette King was an obvious contributor. She has worked at WPP media agency OgilvyOne for a decade, rising through the ranks to become EMEA chief executive, and was promoted both [...]
Four presentation mistakes to avoid March 23, 2014 From token pictures to complex flow-charts, Liam Ward-Proud lists the errors you may not know you’re making MANY of the classic presentation pitfalls are well-known, and relatively easy to spot – excessive length, overuse of jargon or text-heavy slides, for example. But with a reported 30m PowerPoint presentations given each year worldwide, a whole industry [...]
Rules of email etiquette: The dos and don’ts March 20, 2014 From being brief to minding your manners, here’s what you need to know NO ONE needs telling that email is taking over our lives. A recent Radicati study predicted the total number of worldwide email accounts will increase to over 4.9bn by 2017. And in 2013, the majority of traffic came from business, accounting for [...]