Facebook sparks Nigeria U-turn July 6, 2010 NIGERIA’S president has admitted that he felt compelled to scrap his two-year ban on the national team after receiving hundreds of pleas on Facebook. World governing body Fifa threatened to blacklist the Super Eagles if the ban was not dropped, as their rules forbid government interference in teams. But Goodluck Jonathan said it was the [...]
Hamilton and Button calm talk of simmering rivalry July 6, 2010 MCLAREN team-mates and world championship rivals Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have laughed off suggestions their rivalry is about to erupt at this weekend’s British Grand Prix. The English pair go into Sunday’s race at Silverstone locked in a fierce battle for the title, with Hamilton top of the standings and Button second. Former champion [...]
Terse Tiger is feeling the heat as Open looms July 6, 2010 TIGER WOODS showed signs of feeling the pressure as he fronted the media yesterday on his first visit to British shores since last year’s Open Championship. The world No1 met any questions about his private life with short, terse responses as he spoke during the JP McManus Pro-Am event at Adare Manor, Ireland. Woods was [...]
So far, so good for England July 6, 2010 THERE’S no better habit than a winning habit and England’s recent 3-2 series success over Australia will give them plenty of confidence for the rest of the summer – and beyond. True, the Ashes is a different ball game altogether, but with a World Twenty20 victory and one-day series win behind them, England can head [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF July 6, 2010 Semenya free to compete ATHLETICS: South African athlete Caster Semenya has been given the all-clear to return to competition by the International Amateur Athletics Federation. The world 800m champion, 19, has been out of the sport for 11 months after undergoing gender tests. But an IAAF statement yesterday read: “The IAAF accepts the conclusion of [...]
FTSE hits one-week closing high aided by miners as low prices tempt traders July 6, 2010 FIRMER miners helped push Britain’s top share index to a one-week closing high yesterday on improving risk appetite, while signs of strength in Europe’s banking system lifted banks. The FTSE 100 closed up 141.47 points, or 2.9 per cent, at 4,965.00, its highest closing level since 28 June, and its biggest one-day percentage rise since [...]
Banks boost US as Dow ends 5-day losing streak July 6, 2010 WALL Street rebounded yesterday, but strong buying interest evaporated in the afternoon as bearish sentiment reasserted itself. Ending a five-day string of losses, the major indexes bounced back after the S&P 500 closed at a 10-month low on Friday, but investors used the morning’s gains as an opportunity to sell rather than establish new long [...]
No longer safe or sound July 6, 2010 WITH disappointing datasets coming out of the US – from employment to house prices – and equity markets looking shaky, some analysts have started to question whether this could be the beginning of the end for the greenback as the world’s “safe haven”. While such scenarios are usually imagined to play out over five- or [...]
THE AUSSIE IS NOT JUST A RISK PLAY July 6, 2010 DIRECTOR OF CURRENCY RESEARCH, GFT WITH the economic calendar light on both sides of the Atlantic this week, the most interesting event risk is taking place down under where the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) just left its benchmark rates unchanged at 4.5 per cent. Although the RBA acknowledged that the global recovery is beginning [...]
The new safe havens July 6, 2010 SIGNS pointing to a slowdown in global growth make life slightly trickier for forex traders since currencies tend to appreciate if the domestic growth outlook is good. In among all of this economic uncertainty, the job of the forex trader is to sniff out where growth is most likely to be found. Countries that don’t [...]
