Cole Harden has each-way claims in highlight March 11, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE WORLD HURDLE THE LADBROKES World Hurdle (3.20pm) without Big Buck’s is a bit like a cheese sandwich without pickle, but Paul Nicholls still has the joint-favourites in Zarkandar and Saphir Du Rheu. Zarkandar won the Triumph Hurdle four years ago, but he has only won one of his last six visits [...]
Apache Stronghold can land JLT under masterful Carberry March 11, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE JLT, PERTEMPS FINAL AND KIM MUIR STILL a relatively new race at the Cheltenham Festival, the JLT Novices’ Chase (1.30pm) is for those horses who need further than the two miles of the Arkle and less than the three and a bit miles of the RSA Chase. No horse fits that [...]
Racing FX March 11, 2015 I’VE got another good book of rides today and hopefully we can get into the winner’s enclosure again. VALSEUR LIDO takes his chance in the JLT Chase (1.30) and I’d be pretty confident that he can reverse the form with Apache Stronghold from last time. That was his first run for a while and he [...]
CBI: Plain cigarette packaging vote is bad for the UK March 10, 2015 Britain’s top business group has urged parliamentarians to strike down government plans that would see cigarettes sold in plain, unbranded packaging from May 2016. The intervention by CBI director general John Cridland is a significant step for a major business figure to take so near to a General Election, and may damage the Conservatives’ claim [...]
FTSE 100 women dine with Vince Cable in bid to highlight female representation on boards March 10, 2015 Vince Cable last night welcomed more than 100 women from the business world to a dinner at Lancaster House, in a bid to convince sceptics that top companies are improving the female representation on their boards. The business secretary’s department says the target of having 25 per cent of FTSE 100 board positions held by [...]
Mark Carney says talk of cut to interest rate is overblown March 10, 2015 Bank of England governor Mark Carney yesterday implied that talks of a cut in interest rates nearer to zero were overblown. He also ruled out cancelling government debt held by the Bank to reduce the headline figure. Policy makers will “look through” falls in energy and food prices that would keep inflation below target this [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2015: When the City has a break to enjoy a flutter March 10, 2015 A record-breaking crowd of more than 63,000 people descended on Cheltenham yesterday for the opening of the famous horse racing festival. Several notable individuals from the City made the two-hour journey, including renowned founder of Collins Stewart Andy Stewart and ex-Barclays banker Rich Ricci, both of whom have horses racing throughout the week. Other [...]
Cameron set for headache over defence March 10, 2015 TORY MPs will tomorrow warn David Cameron not to cut defence spending when the issue comes up for debate in the House. Many Tory MPs are concerned that Britain will not meet its Nato commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence. The debate to push for two per cent funding has been brought [...]
Euro plunges to near-parity with US dollar March 10, 2015 THE EURO came within touching distance of parity with the dollar yesterday as monetary policies on either side of the Atlantic diverge. The Eurozone began using new money to buy government debt this week, which is impacting the currency, despite being outlined in advance. The euro fell by 1.45 per cent against the dollar yesterday to [...]
Aldermore’s shares are off to a flying start March 10, 2015 SHARES in challenger bank Aldermore rose 11.5 per cent to 214p on its first day of conditional trading yesterday. The challenger bank priced its offering of 34.8 per cent of issued share capital at 192p per share, near the top of its 175p-195p range. The price gave it a market cap of £651m. It is [...]
