SPORT IN BRIEF October 21, 2009 Kaymer aiming for top spotGOLF: Martin Kaymer is looking to reclaim his lead in the Race of Dubai this weekend when he makes his comeback in the Castello Masters in Portugal. German Kaymer has missed two months with a foot injury and has since been overtaken by Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy in the standings. [...]
Edu race claims are condemned by Rangers October 21, 2009 RANGERS last night condemned the “moronic behaviour” of their own supporters alleged to have made racist remarks towards Maurice Edu after Tuesday night’s Champions League defeat by Unirea Urziceni. United States midfielder Edu played no part in the 4-1 defeat but claimed on his Twitter page that he was targeted by his own fans as [...]
SHAW BLASTS GYM MONKEYS October 21, 2009 ENGLAND lock Simon Shaw says modern players spend too long in the gym, at the expense of their technique. Shaw’s blast comes as national boss Martin Johnson faces a huge injury list for the autumn internationals. “We shouldn’t be trying to create gym monkeys with technique, we should be trying to create rugby players,” said [...]
Speculation is driving the price of oil October 21, 2009 OIL’S break through to $80 per barrel earlier this week was attributed to yet another bout of dollar weakness in forex markets, or a strong gasoline inventory draw-down in the US. But looking at the truly fundamental factors – the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (Opec) spare production capacity standing at a whopping 5.5m [...]
DOLLAR BEAR MARKET NOT DOLLAR CRISIS October 21, 2009 GEORGE TCHETVERTAKOVHEAD OF MARKET RESEARCH, ALPARI UK ONE of the biggest casualties of the financial crisis was trust in banks and financial institutions, sparking a collapse of confidence in the markets and precipitate falls across all asset classes from equities to commodities. The greenback was in extremely high demand throughout 2008 as panicking investors looked [...]
BE DEFENSIVE BY TRADING AGRICULTURE October 21, 2009 NICHOLAS BROOKSHEAD OF RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT STRATEGY, ETF SECURITIES DURING the first half of 2009, exchange-traded commodities (ETCs) in industrially-focused precious metals – silver, platinum and palladium – as well as industrial metals all saw rapid rises in inflows as cyclical indicators rebounded. Although recent months have seen outflows in individual industrial metal ETCs, the [...]
Forget active: savvy investors are going for the smart ETFs instead October 21, 2009 WHEN BlackRock acquired Barclays Global Investors and its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) business iShares back in June in a multi-billion dollar deal, it was widely expected that this would give some impetus to the evolution of ETFs both in the US and in the UK. One product that was expected to arrive in the UK was [...]
TARGET YOUR PROFITS WITH SECTOR ETFS October 21, 2009 NIZAM HAMIDHEAD OF SALES STRATEGY, ISHARES EUROPE SINCE the start of this year we have seen assets under management in sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) overtake the open interest in the futures markets – the net value of all open positions. At the end of September 2009, the total value of assets under management in sector [...]
ECB TALK HAS SLOWED FALL IN THE BUCK October 21, 2009 JANE FOLEYRESEARCH DIRECTOR, FOREX.COM THANKS to a healing of risk appetite, a sharp deterioration in the American fiscal position and the perception that US monetary policy will stay loose potentially until the latter part of 2010, further losses could well be ahead for the US dollar. And with euro-dollar rising towards, and potentially through the [...]
PRINCELY NEWCOMER JOINS CITY CLUB SCENE October 21, 2009 WORK hard and play hard has long been the City’s mantra, so dedicated party-goers will be happy to hear that a new club is coming to town. It’s not just any old dive, either – we’re talking about a true A-list hotspot, from the people behind Prince Harry’s favourite nightspot Mahiki. Clubowners Nick House and [...]
