Focus On Regent’s Park: Celebrity-packed Nash terraces and luscious parklands make NW1 “super-prime” London September 23, 2016 If you want to go celebrity spotting in London, you could do a lot worse than Regent’s Park. High profile residents of this historic area surrounding the royal park of the same name include Damien Hirst, Christian Candy, Gwen Stefani, Jamie Oliver and Kate Moss, not to mention all the Middle Eastern royalty and Russian [...]
Taking stock: 12 charts showing the first three months of Brexit in the financial markets September 23, 2016 Three months ago today, the UK voted to leave the European Union. Against the judgement of most experts, our own Prime Minister, the President of the United States, think tanks and international institutions that were warning of economic calamity, the Brits decided to quit. The financial markets went into turmoil. The pound collapsed, the FTSE 100 [...]
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) suffers major IT incident leaving several of its systems down September 23, 2016 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said today that it had been affected by a "major IT incident". The watchdog said a number of systems were down because of the tech problems. The FCA said it was working with suppliers to restore services and would publish more information as soon as it becomes available. The regulator [...]
Interiors: We pick our top five exhibitors at Decorex 2016, London’s 39-year-old interior design festival September 23, 2016 London Basin Company When interior designer Anna Callis couldn’t find painterly handfinished porcelain basins for her commissions, she and her daughter Nathalie decided to have them made. The results she now sells online are eyecatching, exotic, high-quality porcelain washbasins, for around £600. Made in the home of porcelain, China, in 8-10 weeks, each of the 10 [...]
Picks of the day: The three stories to read today September 23, 2016 Friday has finally come around, and the beginning of the weekend is only a few hours away. Catch up on the top stories people are talking about today in bite-sized form, before you clock off for the week! Check out our three at three. The 'stairway to nowhere' Amid the controversy surrounding his Garden Bridge [...]
Holiday Homes: We fly out to Tenerife and find a volcanic paradise that’s a far cry from high rise tower blocks September 23, 2016 Tenerife was once synonymous with cheap package holidays and unsightly high rise tower blocks. Lately, however, the volcanic paradise isn’t just a place where baby boomers go to burn – it’s also where they go to buy. According to Spanish Property Insight, the Spanish property market has grown 23 per cent since 2015 – the [...]
Happy Brexiversary – these are the funds that have performed the worst since the EU referendum September 23, 2016 It's been three months since the Brexit vote. A lot has happened – but some of the worst hit (apart from David Cameron and George Osborne) were property funds. Several funds were forced to block withdrawals after the Brexit vote – closing the gate on £15bn-£20bn worth of funds – because investors were taking out so much money; several more imposed fair [...]
Court orders disgraced former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel to pay €1m in damages September 23, 2016 A French appeals court on Friday ordered former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel pay €1m (£866,000) in damages to the bank following losses he made that totalled €4.9bn. Kerviel was initially ordered to repay the whole sum, but subsequent rulings had struck down that decision. In June, a public prosecutor said the bank "had left the door open" [...]
Humans do have a ‘sixth sense’ and scientists have just found the gene for it September 23, 2016 Are you always bumping into things? Do you wonder why you’re clumsier than your compatriots? It may all be down to genetics. Scientists in the US have discovered a gene in humans that controls the ability to sense where parts of your body are in space, which may explain why some of us are more [...]
Boris Johnson’s Article 50 comments send sterling sliding September 23, 2016 Sterling has drifted against the euro and the dollar today, as currency analysts blamed foreign secretary Boris Johnson for spilling the beans on the government's latest Brexit plans. The pound was down 0.9 per cent against the US dollar at $1.2961 at lunchtime, below the crucial $1.30 mark which the currency has settled around in recent weeks. [...]