Apple’s 9 September launch for iPhone 6 August 5, 2014 TECHNOLOGY giant Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook (pictured), has set aside a date – 9 September – for a major media event. It is expected to be the much-anticipated launch of its iPhone 6. If previous launches are a reliable guide, the new phone could then be on public sale from Friday, 19 September. [...]
£2.4bn Woodford fund invests in Royal Mail August 5, 2014 Star hedge fund manager Neil Woodford has taken a stake in Royal Mail through his new £2.4bn CF Woodford Equity Income fund. Woodford invested 1.5 per cent of his fund’s assets in the stock last month. “This [Royal Mail] is fundamentally a very attractive, cash generative business,” said Woodford on his investment. Royal Mail’s shares [...]
Best of the Brokers for 06 August 2014 August 5, 2014 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com BSKYB Numis keeps its “buy’ rating for BSkyB and raised its target price by 41p to 982p following last week’s strong full-year results and the purchase of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia from 21st Century Fox. BSkyB forecasts synergy benefits at £200m by [...]
London Report: FTSE records slight rise on Intertek and Weir speculation August 5, 2014 BRITAIN’S top equity index yesterday managed a slight gain, as speculation about a takeover lifted engineering group Weir and a broker upgrade buoyed the quality-control and safety-services company Intertek. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed up 0.1 per cent, or 4.96 points, at 6,682.48 points. Weir rose two per cent, to 2,576p, the biggest FTSE [...]
New York Report: Ukraine fears floor Wall St August 5, 2014 US STOCKS ended down yesterday, nose-diving in the afternoon as concerns mounted over escalating tensions in Ukraine. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 139.81 points, or 0.84 per cent, to 16,429.47, the S&P 500 ended down 18.78 points, or 0.97 per cent, to 1,920.21, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 31.05 points, or 0.71 per cent, [...]
QPR set to seal double swoop August 5, 2014 Premier League new boys QPR are closing in on a double transfer swoop after agreeing a season-long loan deal with Italian side Juventus for Chilean defender Mauricio Isla. The 26-year-old, who has won two Italian Scudettos, is joined in the Loftus Road arrivals lounge by highly-rated midfielder Jordan Mutch after QPR agreed a £6m fee [...]
McIlroy seeks hat-trick win August 5, 2014 WORLD No1 Rory McIlroy believes he is exploiting a gap in the market which was evident at the start of the season as the Northern Irishman seeks a hat-trick of wins at the US PGA, which starts tomorrow. The 25-year-old heads to Valhalla fresh from returning to the top of the world rankings for the [...]
Top-flight concussion rules tightened up August 5, 2014 PLAYERS knocked out or suspected of losing consciousness will have to be substituted under new rules governing the Premier League. In addition, any form of head injury must be assessed with the club doctor, not team management, deciding whether that player is fit to continue. Tottenham Hotspur received criticism last season for allowing their French [...]
Cowes Week Diary: Rugby stars and royalty set to collide in Artemis Challenge August 5, 2014 IT HAS been almost 20 years since my retirement from international rugby, and although I miss playing the game I’ve been fortunate enough to attend some of the greatest sporting events on earth since, so it’s certainly far from being bad. One of those has to be Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, and for four [...]
India will not let saga drop August 5, 2014 INDIA have risked further ill-feeling ahead of tomorrow’s fourth Test by complaining to the International Cricket Council after England’s James Anderson was cleared of breaching the code of conduct. Anderson was found not guilty of abusing and pushing India’s Ravindra Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridge. The Board of Control for Cricket in [...]
