Super Mario Draghi: Age of unwinding? – CNBC Comment May 4, 2015 THE PAST few years have seen central banks invested with almost super hero-like powers. Super Mario Draghi might not be one of the characters in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but his powers are almost as impressive as Iron Man’s. And has Iron Man ever pumped so much money into the Eurozone’s financial system that he [...]
How to use Bollinger Bands when trading the markets – Daily FX Tips & Picks May 4, 2015 EXPLOSIVE moves: everyone wants to be part of them, but how can we detect them before it’s too late? A basic indicator which is standard on most systems are Bollinger Bands. Loading this indicator for a FX pair like euro-dollar will show you the 20 day moving-average and the standard deviation of price over the [...]
The strong arm of the Rugby law: 2015 World Cup legal partner Clifford Chance has long been part of the rugby family May 4, 2015 Would you like to watch this year’s Rugby World Cup through the eyes of Dan Carter or Sam Warburton? Effectively play the game with them. As them. In them. Feel what it’s like to react in that nano-second that takes them away from a defender or straight into the arms of a gigantic monster. [...]
Car review: The Jaguar XE 3.0 V6 S is set to put British cars on top of the world again May 4, 2015 You know you’ve made it at work when you swap the keys of your bog-standard company car for a premium model better suited to the junior executive you’ve become, like a BMW, an Audi or a Mercedes-Benz. But if everyone is trading up, the brands risk losing the exclusivity that made them so appealing in [...]
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Bagging talent: How to recruit the best people May 4, 2015 Turn to the HR team to find the right recruiter and get candidate feedback. As demand returns to the economy, many organisations can’t find the people they need to grow. Talent shortages are rife, and are set to worsen over the next two years. Meanwhile, our latest data shows that 95 per cent of [...]
Blues better than Barca, reckons Cesc May 4, 2015 CHELSEA midfielder Cesc Fabregas believes the quality of football played by Jose Mourinho’s newly-crowned champions this season has eclipsed that produced by Barcelona during his time at Camp Nou. The Blues secured their first Premier League title since 2010 with a nervy 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Sunday, but have been unable to brush [...]
Premier League: Wenger hails Sanchez impact as goals flow May 4, 2015 HULL CITY 1 ARSENAL 3 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger admitted that talismanic forward Alexis Sanchez has surpassed all expectations in his debut season in English football after a first-half double at Hull last night edged his side closer to an 18th successive season of Champions League football. Sanchez, the first Arsenal player since legendary striker [...]
Golf Comment: Classy Rory McIlroy and deserved joy for Ian Woosnam May 4, 2015 I doubt he sees him as a direct challenge to his No1 status yet but I do think that Jordan Spieth’s win at the Masters will have niggled Rory McIlroy a little. And so it was that Rory won at his very next tournament, the WGC Cadillac Match Play Championship, which concluded on Sunday after [...]
Trott calls time on England as return falls flat May 4, 2015 ENGLAND batsman Jonathan Trott admitted he was unable to reproduce the match-winning contributions of previous years after last night announcing his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. Trott was recalled for the drawn Test series against the West Indies after a prolonged absence due to a stress-related illness, which emerged during England’s disastrous Ashes [...]
