Rugby World Cup 2015: All Black is the colour as first match England v Figi kicks off tonight September 18, 2015 For the first time in 24 years, New Zealand have arrived for a Rugby World Cup as champions, finally able to bat away the ‘choking Kiwi’ tag that has haunted them for almost three decades. While England are a tempting bet at 9/2 with Sportingbet, it appears that the only chink in the formidable [...]
Chelsea set to finally stop the rot with London pride at stake September 18, 2015 THE PUNTER Ben Cleminson previews the best of the Premier League action DESPITE having a combined age of 117, Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger continue to squabble like school children. Playground prince Mourinho has got the digs in against the Frenchman ahead of tomorrow’s clash but nothing can mask the fact that Chelsea have had a [...]
Top Tug and Steps can deliver Jamie Spencer a super Newbury double September 18, 2015 Guessing what the weather is going to do is the hardest part of trying to tip a winner more than 24 hours ahead of the race in question. Last week there was plenty of rain forecast at Doncaster, which led me to headline tip Order Of St George for the St Leger. That [...]
Meet purple squirrels: The new breed of star employee that companies need to be more open-minded about hiring September 18, 2015 The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s recent finding that top law and accounting firms are shunning talented working class applicants in favour of more privileged candidates made me think hard about diversity in my own industry, advertising. I’m sure many other business leaders reacted in the same way. Unfortunately, this problem is not [...]
Best of the Brokers for 18 September 2015 September 18, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com SERCO GROUP Berenberg thought yesterday’s £250m sale of offshore operations BPO to Blackstone was a turnaround and updated its rating from “sell” to “hold”, with a target price unchanged at 100p for public services contractor Serco. The disposal brought the company’s debt back [...]
Anxious investors weigh on FTSE as engineering is hit – London Report September 18, 2015 London’s leading shares closed lower yesterday as anxious investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting meeting. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed 0.68 per cent lower, or 42.22 points, at 6186.99. Engineering firms led the index downward, with the Weir Group slipping 2.58 per cent and Smiths Group shedding 4.16 per [...]
Crawl behind the roped-off area with Maggie’s charity jaunt September 18, 2015 Tonight some of London’s finest state rooms and offices will be open to the public – but those generous types doing the Maggie’s Culture Crawl may be a bit flushed in the face by the time they arrive at the Foreign Office in Westminster. After a 15-mile walk for charity, weaving through London’s historic buildings, [...]
If you want an iPhone 6 quickly move to NY City September 18, 2015 Londoners have to work an average of 41.2 hours to be able to buy an iPhone 6 – far more than their counterparts in New York City, LA, Miami, Chicago, Zurich or Geneva, where it takes less than 30 hours to notch up enough readies to splurge on the smartphone. And according to UBS’ Prices [...]
People’s QE makes strange bedfellows: Jeremy Corbyn is not the first to pitch a quantitative easing for people September 18, 2015 Labour's new hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a range of ideas to transform Britain into an idyllic land of equality, where public sector workers happily whistle while they work and joyous children skip hand-in-hand through rainbows. Some of these brainwaves have become known as “Corbynomics”, among which is a plan – coined The [...]
UK house prices are set to go through the roof, with the fastest growth in London September 18, 2015 House prices are growing at a robust pace this month while mortgage lending has surged as the housing markets heat up. Estate agent Knight Frank’s house price sentiment indicator today scored 59.3 for September, with scores above 50 indicating price growth. The fastest current growth is in London. Households’ overall expectations of [...]
