How to make the most from the UK’s weak fiscal position March 24, 2010 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling may have received jeers from the opposition while he delivered his Budget yesterday, but one thing all of the UK’s political parties agree on is that the projected £167bn budget deficit needs to be reduced. While the proposed timing of the deficit reduction differs between the parties, public spending will get the [...]
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS March 24, 2010 RBS FLIES BA WARRANTS You can now trade covered warrants on British Airways (BA) and Citigroup with Royal Bank of Scotland. Both put and call warrants are available and for those with long investment horizons, the expiry dates – some as far-out as June next year – should be welcome news. It may also take [...]
How an MBA can make you an entrepreneur March 24, 2010 SURVEYS of this newspaper’s readers always show that a large proportion of them hope to start up their own business one day. But if that is your dream, how do you go about it? Can you learn to be an entrepreneur? There is a mystique around entrepreneurialism and those who have succeeded often promote the [...]
TWO?MBA?ENTREPRENEURS March 24, 2010 OLGA NEFEDOVA Having worked as a senior drilling engineer for oilfield services giant Schlumberger for four years, and then for Mitsubishi Steel Trading, Olga Nefedova took a full-time MBA at Warwick Business School in 2008-2009. She now combines a customer services manager role at Schlumberger with running an online gallery selling Russian art, the Kohgan [...]
Size matters when it comes to your MBA March 24, 2010 IN 2006, there were 299 people on London Business School’s full-time MBA course. In 2010, the intake was 401, bringing the total number of students on the two-year course to around 800. The 2010 intake at Paris’s INSEAD is 980. At the upper end, the number of people at the large MBA schools is increasing [...]
TALE OF THE TAPE | DAVIDS AND GOLIATHS March 24, 2010 LBS: 401 for a two-year MBA, meaning at any one time there will be around 800 full-time MBA students. INSEAD: INSEAD admits two classes per year, each comprising nearly 480 students, from over 70 nationalities. SAID: 240, from 48 nationalities, with 95 per cent international students. EMLYON: 30 students, from 13 countries. VLERICK LEUVEN GENT: 50 students, more [...]
FTSE 100 peaks at 21-month high led by banks and energy March 23, 2010 BRITAIN’S top share index rose 0.5 per cent yesterday, hitting a fresh 21-month closing high, led by commodity, enErgy and banking stocks as fears over monetary tightening effects ebbed. The FTSE 100 index ended 29.09 points higher at 5,673.63, after hitting an intra-day high of 5,695.94. It was the highest close since June 19 2008. [...]
Caterpillar leads as US stocks move up March 23, 2010 US stocks rallied yesterday, led by the tech, industrial and materials sectors, driving the Dow and the S&P 500 to 18-month highs. Signs of improved demand in the semiconductor industry and a broker’s positive commentary on Caterpillar lifted blue chips, while tech bellwethers Apple and Cisco hit 52-week highs, indicating increased optimism among investors. Kraft, [...]
Indian rate hike sets the scene for the rest of Asia March 23, 2010 SO FAR this year, the markets have been concentrating on the prospect of monetary policy tightening in China and what that will mean for global recovery. But while the Asian powerhouse has been slowly tightening here and there in an effort to cool its economy down, it was India that bit the bullet and hiked [...]
FISCAL POLICY LIFTS LOONIE AND SWISSIE March 23, 2010 As the first quarter of 2010 draws to a close, some currencies are enjoying a safety premium due to their superior fiscal and trade balance position. In Europe, the Swiss economy is currently running both a fiscal and trade balance surplus and it stands in sharp contrast to the much larger Eurozone economy. The single [...]
