Straits Kitchen at the Pan Pacific hotel is great for Chinese wine DINING DIARY If you’ve read about the rise of Chinese wine and are looking to explore its rise then there’s nowhere better than Straits Kitchen in the Pan Pacific Hotel. Sommelier Francois Bertrand is passionate about providing wines to fit their Asian menu, believing the variety and quality from China will surprise and delight. What unfolded over [...]
The mortgage ‘moron premium’ and why home loans may get (slightly) cheaper despite an expected hike in interest rates Mortgage rate rises The Bank of England is expected to increase interest rates next month, making borrowing more expensive for both businesses and individuals. Although the rate decides how much businesses and individuals pay to borrow money, mortgage experts believe that the cost of home loans may actually come down, because the derivatives used by mortgage lenders have [...]
Week in Review City Talk Well, we’re at the end of another exciting week of trading with the Dollar flat, stocks higher, oil slightly relatively subdued and treasuries lower. Interesting week as yields push higher and the S&P looks set for a gain, which recently has not been the expected outcome of that sequence of events. After a positive end [...]
EP: 179 Cheltenham, Doncaster & Hong Kong January 27, 2023 There are 9-races at Cheltenham on Saturday after the Clarence House Chase was rescheduled from Ascot, whilst Doncaster is the venue for more graded jumps action on the same afternoon. In Hong Kong, California Spangle, Golden Sixty and Romantic Warrior all take each other on in the much anticipated Group 1 Stewards’ Cup at Sha [...]
January 28th – Punter Podcast Summary January 27, 2023 There are 9-races at Cheltenham on Saturday after the Clarence House Chase was rescheduled from Ascot, whilst Doncaster is the venue for more graded jumps action on the same afternoon. In Hong Kong, California Spangle, Golden Sixty and Romantic Warrior all take each other on in the much anticipated Group 1 Stewards’ Cup at Sha [...]
Exclusive: London beats New York to be crowned best city for female entrepreneurs – but concerns raised over tech deficit January 26, 2023 London has overtaken New York and San Fransisco as the best city in the world for female entrepreneurs after startups grew at a “colossal” rate during the pandemic, City A.M. can exclusively reveal. The 2023 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index, compiled with Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN), showed the capital ranked top against 55 [...]
Gerard Butler new film Plane is a big dumb action movie January 26, 2023 Amidst all the complicated emotions of Oscar season, it’s a nice change of pace to see something as straightforward as Plane, starring Gerard Butler, on the release slate. The all-action Scot plays Brodie Torrance, a pilot in charge of a routine flight that’s forced to crash land on an island near the Philippines. While Plane [...]
The best shows to see at Vault Festival, London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe January 26, 2023 After a two year hiatus, the UK’s second biggest festival is underway beneath Waterloo Station. Adam Bloodworth spicks out the top shows T he UK’s second biggest festival has opened its doors in a hundred-year-old vault under Waterloo Station. The Vault Festival programmes features over 500 performers spanning comedy, theatre and circus, with shows running [...]
US economy races ahead of UK despite Federal Reserve crushing Americans with rate hikes January 26, 2023 The US economy is growing much faster than expected despite the Federal Reserve piling pressure on Americans with aggressive interest rate hikes to tame inflation, official figures out today show. Stateside gross domestic product (GDP) climbed 2.9 per cent over the three months to December, better than the 2.6 per cent growth pencilled in by [...]
Nokia’s 16 per cent jump in sales lifts share price as it forecasts a strong year January 26, 2023 Nokia today reported a 16 per cent jump in sales for the last quarter, smashing expectations and sending its share price up by nearly six per cent at the open. In a fourth quarter trading update, Nokia said sales rose 16 per cent from the same period last year to £6.54bn (7.45bn euros), ahead of [...]