Mipim 2015: How many people from your local council are attending property’s annual knees-up in Cannes? March 11, 2015 This week, 25,000-odd property developers, agents and investors have descended on Cannes for a week of networking, deal-making and partying at Mipim, property's annual get-together. The event is notorious for its boozy parties, as delegates toast their success in the bars lining the seafront, aboard yachts in the town's marinas, or in villas in the [...]
Jeremy Clarkson fracas: One chart showing the decline of Top Gear’s UK television audience in the last five years March 11, 2015 To his fans, he's a hero; to his detractors, he's everything wrong with television today. But fracas or no fracas, suspending Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson can't have been an easy choice for the BBC. He does, after all, preside over the world's most-watched factual TV programme, according to the Guinness Book of Records. More than [...]
Domino Printing share price jumps by a third after £1bn Brother Industries buyout March 11, 2015 Shares in Domino Printing Sciences, the UK tech company, jumped more than 31 per cent to 945.7p in early trading after it revealed it had been bought for £1bn by Japanese printer giant Brother. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders in FTSE 250-listed Domino, which makes printers that put sell by dates and bar [...]
Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson suspended by the BBC after “fracas” March 10, 2015 Controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended from the BBC after a "fracas" with a producer. In a statement today, the BBC said Clarkson had been suspended "pending investigation", and that "no one else has been suspended". It added that Top Gear would not be broadcast this Sunday. Top Gear is one of the BBC's most [...]
Euro loses one per cent against the dollar as markets feel the impact of quantitative easing March 10, 2015 The euro has fallen further against the dollar today, after the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its much-anticipated quantitative easing programme. The single currency briefly fell below the $1.07 mark in late afternoon trading, or down more than one per cent, taking it to its lowest level since 2003. It wasn't helped by the [...]
Russian no-show – but Mipim 2015 shows the UK property sector is back on form March 10, 2015 It's that time of year again: Mipim is the European networking event and conference for global property investors. Sound dull? Well, after the film festival it's the largest event held in Cannes, with over 25,000 attendees. Three years ago, it reached the front pages when investigators arrested the Tchenguiz brothers on board their private [...]
Margaret Thatcher’s private bus has been put up for sale March 10, 2015 Mrs Thatcher at the wheel of the bus (Source: Getty) If you're a political memorabilia fan, this is a must-have: an armoured bus that once belonged to Margaret Thatcher has just gone up for sale – a snip at £25,000. The bus has been put on sale by Northamptonshire company Tanks-A-Lot, which (as you may [...]
Aldermore share price jumps on its first day of trading March 10, 2015 Shares in Aldermore rose 10 per cent to 212p as its first day of conditional trading began on the London Stock Exchange this morning. The challenger bank priced its offering of 34.8 per cent of issued share capital at 192p per share, near the top of its 155p-195p range. The price gave it a market [...]
Stuart Gulliver: I am the right person to run HSBC March 9, 2015 HSBC boss Stuart Gulliver said he was the "right person" to run the embattled bank today, as he was quizzed by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee. Asked whether he should remain chief executive of the bank, he said: "I am committed to finishing what I began five years ago in a firm I've served [...]
Mipim 2015: 20,000 estate agents, developers and local politicians are descending on Cannes this week – here’s what you need to know March 9, 2015 For one week a year, thousands of estate agents, developers, investors and local politicians descend en masse for Mipim, the world's biggest property conference. It's an opportunity to get to know other members of the industry, make deals and learn about property, while consuming copious amounts of alcohol aboard swanky yachts. But Mipim is more [...]
