FTSE creeps higher as miners dig deep after price recovery – London Report January 28, 2015 BRITAIN’S top share index edged slightly higher yesterday, with miners gaining ground following a recovery in prices of key industrial metals such as copper and aluminium. The blue chip FTSE 100 index, which climbed to its highest level since mid-September on Tuesday, closed 0.2 per cent higher at 6,825.94 points. The UK mining index rose [...]
Fed’s patient move hits oil – New York Report January 28, 2015 US STOCKS closed down yesterday, driven by a sharp decline in the S&P 500 energy sector, after the Federal Reserve said the domestic economy was growing at a solid pace, signalling it remains on track to raise interest rates later this year. Concluding their first policy-setting meeting of the year, Fed officials said they would [...]
London should turbo-charge devolution by creating a Thames City super-region January 28, 2015 Devolution is the flavour of the month, with plans to transfer powers from Westminster to Scotland sparking widespread debate about how else we can fix Britain’s over-centralised system of government. But London will have to take a very different approach to other regions. Yes, the capital desperately needs more fiscal autonomy, but it also needs [...]
Entrepreneurs aren’t lone wolves: Labour will back them for the good of all January 28, 2015 Paul Lindley looked at the range of baby food at the supermarket and thought his daughter’s generation deserved better. So in 2006 he founded Ella’s Kitchen, to create food for kids that appealed to all the senses. Since then, his daughter Ella has grown – but Ella’s Kitchen has grown much faster. It has a [...]
As Tsipras says that Greece won’t default on its debts, is a compromise still likely? January 28, 2015 Dario Perkins, chief European economist at Lombard Street Research, says Yes It’s hard to disentangle rhetoric and bargaining tactics from official “red lines,” but there is still scope for a mutually beneficial deal. The Troika could quite easily cut the future value of Greek debts by extending maturities and lowering interest rates, without imposing immediate [...]
How to get sponsorship for your executive MBA January 28, 2015 Your employer may offer more than just monetary support. Over the last few years, many have found it difficult to find corporate sponsorship for their Executive MBA (EMBA). In 2007, 34 per cent of students received full financial sponsorship from their employer (according to the EMBA Council), but by 2011, that figure had dropped to [...]
SIHH 2015: Vacheron Constantin had everyone swooning at Geneva watch fair January 28, 2015 Every dreary January, the luxury watch world and its dog enjoys brief respite from the month’s enforced abstinence inside a vast exhibition complex next to Geneva airport. Here, for the past 25 years, the Richemont Group has provided its own alternative to the chaotic jamboree that is spring’s watch and jewellery fair in Basel, staging [...]
British watchmaker’s kick-ass cameo January 28, 2015 On general release today, Kingsman: The Secret Service sees the cream of British screen talent toting some hardcore British wrist-gadgetry from youthful aviator brand Bremont. Matthew Vaughn’s follow-up to Kick Ass – another comic-book co-adaptation with Jonathan Ross’s wife Jane Goldman – sees Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Michael Caine pairing their spivvy suits and [...]
2015 ticks off to a good start January 28, 2015 Richemont’s finest came to SIHH with some horological humdingers Wandering the lofty, beige halls of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) inside Geneva Airport’s cavernous Palexpo complex – “probably the most luxurious trade fair in the world” – the seeming neutrality of its colour-scheme belies the horological hierarchy at play here. Unlike the [...]
Hands on heart January 28, 2015 Yes chaps, it’s time to think about Valentine’s again – and we have the perfect gift to set her ticking If you wear a wristwatch, a recent statistic puts the number of times you check the time at 88 times a day. So if you think about it, that could be 88 times a day [...]
