Maximum excitement with sporting index September 3, 2015 EUROPEAN Championship qualifiers frequently pit big teams against no-hopers and punters can be put off taking prohibitively short odds. But with Sporting Index there are so many different markets to ensure excitement throughout any match. Total goal minutes is a prediction on the total minutes of each goal scored in a match. For example, a [...]
Murray masters mirth to march past erratic Kyrgios at US Open September 3, 2015 BRITAIN’S Andy Murray admitted he had to stop himself from laughing as he reeled off a fourth consecutive win over wild child Nick Kyrgios to reach the second round of the US Open. Murray stayed cool in the face of a Kyrgios performance that veered from scintillating to scratchy to defeat the Australian 20-year-old 7-5, [...]
Positive ways to soften negative staff feedback: Give criticism often so that it doesn’t feel like a personal attack September 3, 2015 Giving feedback can be like walking a tightrope. Make a mistake and you risk sounding insincere or, worse, aggressive. Avoid it altogether and you are failing your team. A study of 22,719 leaders found that those ranking in the bottom 10 per cent in their ability to give frank feedback were perceived as significantly [...]
P2P investment: Taking on the banks September 3, 2015 Harriet Green talks to GLI Finance’s Louise Beaumont on how alternative finance is changing the landscape of fundraising for SMEs – and options for retail investors THERE is a sector of alternative finance which too often slips under the radar: the investment firms that put money onto crowdfunding and peer-to-peer platforms which then lend that [...]
Best of the Brokers for 3 September 2015 September 3, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com ANTOFAGASTA Canaccord Genuity reiterated its “hold” rating on the mining group, but reduced its target price from 620p to 610p. The broker cited the company’s recent decision to downgrade full-year production guidance for copper, and reduced its earnings forecasts for 2015 and 2016. [...]
FTSE closes up after positive Ashtead results – London Report September 3, 2015 Britain’s leading share index ended higher yesterday, buoyed by results from industrial equipment hire group Ashtead and by opening gains on Wall Street. The FTSE 100 closed up at 24.77 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 6,083.31, broadly in line with European indexes and Wall Street. Stocks were more upbeat as investors bet that the [...]
Aggreko deal sparks hopes of turnaround September 3, 2015 THE LIGHTS may not have quite gone out for struggling temporary power provider Aggreko, which cheered the market yesterday with its acquisition of a temperature control business. The FTSE 250 firm, which predominantly provides power generators, has seen its share price slump by more than a third over the past year due to the commodities [...]
US supply data sends oil prices tumbling again September 3, 2015 CRUDE oil prices fell again yesterday, on news that US stockpiles rose again last week. Global benchmark Brent crude was back to trading below $50 per barrel, despite earlier gains, in a marked departure from the three-day bull market seen over the last few days of August. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also fell, [...]
More than half UK companies’ stock is foreign investor owned September 3, 2015 Foreign investors own nearly £1 trillion-worth of British companies. ONS figures show that at the end of 2014 shares in listed, UK-based companies were worth £1.7 trillion, and 54 per cent of their stock was owned by offshore investors, largely based in North America and Europe. The figure was up nearly 10 percentage points from [...]
RBS boss suits up with workers for 500-mile slog around the UK September 3, 2015 THE NIGHTS are getting longer and the weather less pleasant, but there’s no slowing down for RBS boss Ross McEwan. He’s planning to team up with hundreds of the bank’s staff to cycle 500 miles from London to Edinburgh. RBS, which yesterday announced its partnership with Sport Relief 2016, is getting 750 staffers to cycle [...]
