2014 Christmas gift ideas: Quality technology you can fit in a stocking December 10, 2014 SMS Audio BioSport in-ear headphones with heart monitor The perfect gift for the fitness fanatic in your life, these ear-buds don’t just play music, they also monitor your heart-rate. smsaudio.com Touch Mini Boombox speaker Touch Mini Boombox Speaker This lightweight gadget slots into the speaker at the end of your phone and pumps [...]
2014 Christmas gift ideas: These stocking fillers will leave your family satisfied long past Boxing Day December 10, 2014 Tube Socks A London twist on the classic gift – socks based around the colours of the London Underground lines. tubesocks.co Toy train Whether it’s for a child or just someone who’s young at heart, this train-set spelling out your name is a sure-fire hit. £17 for a six-letter name, notonthehighstreet.com Rocket Gardens [...]
Baroness Scotland elected as city Alderman December 9, 2014 Baroness Patricia Scotland was last night elected as an Alderman for Bishopsgate ward in the City, the first person of a black or minority ethnic background to win the coveted role and only the fourth woman in its 900 year history. She will be sworn in in January.
Best of the Brokers for 10 December 2014 December 9, 2014 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com GEMFIELDS FinnCap has reiterated its “buy” rating following the company’s second ruby auction in Singapore, selling gemstones from its Montepuez mine in Mozambique, where it recorded its highest ever revenue for an auction, at $43.4m (£27.7m). The broker retained its 60p price target. [...]
FTSE tumbles on Tesco share price turmoil as banks take a hit – London Report December 9, 2014 Britain’s main equity index yesterday fell to one-month lows, hit by supermarket retailer Tesco’s fourth profit warning this year. Shares in Tesco at one stage fell as much as 17 per cent to their lowest in around 14 years, wiping some £2.6bn off the firm’s market capitalisation. It later regained some ground to close 6.6 [...]
Geopolitical fears weigh on Wall Street – New York Report December 9, 2014 THE S&P 500 ended nearly flat yesterday as concerns about global weakness and political turmoil were offset by gains in technology and energy shares. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 51.28 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 17,801.2, the S&P 500 lost 0.49 points, or 0.02 per cent, to 2,059.82. However, the Nasdaq Composite added [...]
Chef Ana Morris of Islington restaurant LeCoq presents her recipe for burnt chicken and chilli spatchcock chicken December 9, 2014 Ana Morris, the chef of Islington’s favourite rotisserie chicken restaurant LeCoq, on how to unite a community using only a spit and some good quality birds from Suffolk. Sisters Ana and Sanja Morris opened LeCoq last year in Islington. Since, the restaurant has flourished and become a firm local fixture. We speak to chef Ana to [...]
It pays to think global – but diversification is no free lunch December 9, 2014 WE ALL know the logic – don’t put all your eggs in one basket, because diversification is the key to success. But so many investors still fall at this hurdle when it comes to investing globally. The first point to remember is that, when you’re invested in just one market or group of territories, you’re [...]
Business is Booming for wine trader Bordeaux Index December 9, 2014 Bottle.opener@cityam.com While we’re toiling away at screens and desks day-dreaming about the Grand Cru we might open with friends on Saturday, Gary Boom lives that dream every day. He’s the former City broker who had a brainwave about the wine business after making his first fortune, and has turned it into Bordeaux Index, one of [...]
Bowler Abbott bounces back from tragedy December 9, 2014 AUSTRALIAN bowler Sean Abbott, whose short-pitched ball led to the death of Test batsman Phillip Hughes, made a triumphant return to cricket yesterday at the scene of the tragedy. Fears were raised that the 22-year-old might not play again after his role in Hughes’s death last month, but Abbott bowled a bouncer in the first [...]
