Bullock is Miss Sentimentality in her apple pie Oscar role March 25, 2010 Film THE BLIND SIDE Cert: 12A IT’S certainly a remarkable story. “Big Mike” Oher, a poor black kid from the Tennessee projects abandoned by his junkie mother, became a major star in American football after being rescued by rich housewife, Leigh Anne Tuohy. She and her millionaire husband (Tim McGraw) adopted him as a teenager, [...]
Saatchi to work with Tories as profits dip 27pc March 25, 2010 The Saatchi brothers will renew their long-standing relationship with the Conservative party in the run up to the general election. Their advertising agency, M&C Saatchi, has signed a new contract to help kick the Tories out of their polling rut, decades after launching their iconic “Labour isn’t working” campaign. The announcement came as the agency [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 25, 2010 State Street Global Advisors The investment manager, a subsidiary of State Street, has appointed Jenya Emets and Matt Arnold to its active and enhanced European equity portfolio management teams in London. Emets, who becomes an investment manager, was previously a product engineer in the European active equity team at State Street Global Advisors. Arnold, now [...]
ON IN LONDON | SIX OF THE BEST March 25, 2010 THEATRE 4:48 Psychosis Scintillating adaptation of the late writer Sarah Kane’s autobiographical prose poem, by Polish company TR Warzawa. At the Barbican. EXHIBITION Kingdom of Life: Sculptures from West Africa The British Museum’s exhibition is a revealing look at the extraordinary sculptures of 12th century Africa. FILM The Scouting Book for Boys This Is England’s [...]
US resistant to open skies agreement March 25, 2010 EUROPEAN negotiators said yesterday European ownership of US airlines was in sight after three days of “Open Skies” talks but reaction from the US suggested agreement remained distant. The US? departments of state and transportation made no mention of lifting ownership limits in summarising the talks that took place in Brussels. The two sides agreed [...]
Not good enough: That’s our panel’s verdict on Alistair Darling’s last Budget before the election March 25, 2010 WEDNESDAY’S?Budget was almost certainly Alistair Darling’s last. Even if Labour does hang on to power,?Gordon Brown is unlikely to keep him on as chancellor. For that reason, Darling was acutely aware of his own reputation, and managed to resist pressure to announce a raft of gimmicky pre-election giveaways. But our panel was still distinctly unimpressed, [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK March 25, 2010 FILM NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG Thompson returns as the magical nanny. LOURDES Award-winning film about pilgrims heading to the French town, starring Sylvie Testud. PERRIER’S BOUNTY Irish crime caper with Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent. DVD THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Robert Pattinson makes teenage girls everywhere swoon once more. HARRY [...]
ICBC seeks to raise £2.5bn new cash in a bid to bolster its balance sheet March 25, 2010 INDUSTRIAL & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s biggest bank by market capitalisation, unexpectedly unveiled plans yesterday to raise £2.5bn in new capital to bolster its balance sheet. The plan was announced just after ICBC reported a 58 per cent rise in fourth-quarter profit, broadly meeting expectations. ICBC will sell up to 25bn yuan [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS March 25, 2010 MEDIASET Standard & Poor’s has upgraded its rating on Mediaset to “buy” from “hold” citing the Italian media company’s recent full-year results. Despite the 41 per cent drop in 2009 profits, S&P belives the fact that February revenues at Telecinco were up by as much as 40 per cent, will result in revenue growth in [...]
FTSE 100 soars to 21-month high boosted by Greek bailout March 25, 2010 BRITAIN’S top shares hit a 21-month closing high for the third day in a row yesterday, helped by a rally in banks as sovereign debt concerns faded, while retailers were boosted by upbeat results from Next and UK retail sales. The FTSE 100 ended 49.77 points higher at 5,727.65, finishing above the 5,700-mark for the [...]
