Villarreal fined for banana throw May 7, 2014 FOOTBALL: Villarreal have been fined €12,000 (£9,850) by the Spanish Football Federation after a banana was thrown by a spectator at Barcelona’s Dani Alves during a match last month. The supporter was issued a life ban.
Monaco draw hands PSG the title May 7, 2014 FOOTBALL: Paris Saint-Germain were crowned Ligue 1 champions last night, despite a 2-1 home defeat to Rennes. Monaco’s draw with 10-man Guingamp leaves them seven points adrift with two games left to play.
England name team for Glasgow May 7, 2014 SWIMMING: Commonwealth champions Liam Tancock and Fran Halsall will lead a 39-strong England team in Glasgow this summer, as they bid to retain their titles. England won 34 swimming medals in Delhi in 2010.
Osborne hits back at Labour in Pfizer row May 6, 2014 CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday launched a scathing attack on Labour’s track record, in an increasingly bitter political row over the proposed takeover of UK drugs giant Astrazeneca. Using language that flirted closely with protectionism, which he has so far avoided, Osborne attacked Labour’s free trade approach to foreign takeovers during its 13 years in office. When [...]
Osborne hits back at Labour in Pfizer row May 6, 2014 CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday launched a scathing attack on Labour’s track record, in an increasingly bitter political row over the proposed takeover of UK drugs giant Astrazeneca. Using language that flirted closely with protectionism, which he has so far avoided, Osborne attacked Labour’s free trade approach to foreign takeovers during its 13 years in office. When [...]
Chinese behemoth Alibaba unveils blockbuster float plan May 6, 2014 CHINESE web giant Alibaba last night unveiled plans for one of the biggest stock market floats ever, giving investors a rare chance to tap the country’s burgeoning consumer market. Alibaba, which offers similar services to those of western tech companies Amazon, eBay and PayPal all rolled into one combined offering for selling goods online, published [...]
UK growth strengthens as Eruope’s recovery kicks on May 6, 2014 GROWTH in the Eurozone was at its fastest in three years during April, while the UK economy continues to go from strength to strength, major business surveys showed yesterday. The UK’s figure from Markit’s April purchasing managers’ index (PMI) surprised analysts, as the score for the whole economy rose to 59.2, the first increase in [...]
An inconvenient truth about Britain’s growing housing crisis May 6, 2014 IT WAS hard not to despair at the latest scare story on empty homes – apparently, there are 60,000 of them being “hoarded” by rich “buy to leave” investors in London alone, and the Labour leader is going to do something about it. There’s just a problem. The figures are nonsense, they don’t relate to [...]
Top hedge fund bosses earned $21.15bn in 2013 May 6, 2014 THE TOP 25 hedge fund managers in the US earned a combined $21.15bn (£12.55bn) last year, according to Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine annual Rich List, published yesterday. Four managers raked in more than $1bn each, with a fifth narrowly missing out on that amount to earn $950m. The highest earner was David Tepper at US firm [...]
Europe divided as transaction tax row builds May 6, 2014 THE BITTER row over France and Germany’s financial transactions tax (FTT) spilled over into a very public spat yesterday as more countries backed George Osborne’s opposition to the tax. Eleven EU nations want to tax shares and derivatives issued in their countries, wherever they are traded – meaning activity in London would be hit even [...]
