CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 13, 2011 Alvarez & Marsal The professional services firm has expanded its European real estate advisory team by appointing London-based senior director Ian Morgan. Morgan joins Alvarez & Marsal from the boutique advisory firm European Resolution Capital, where he was portfolio head for real estate, responsible for a distressed loan book of €1bn. Prior to that, Morgan [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS December 13, 2011 CSR Morgan Stanley rates the chipmaker as “equal-weight” with a target price of 250p, following the company’s announcement yesterday that it is halting its investment in the digital television and tuner side of its business. As a consequence, the broker lowers its 2012 and 2013 revenue forecasts by $50m and $100m respectively, and operating expenses [...]
Slump goes on as all eyes on the Fed December 13, 2011 Stocks fell for a second consecutive day yesterday after the Federal Reserve gave no hints of new stimulus measures to offset the effects of the worsening European debt crisis. Though the Fed did leave the door open to further easing next year, as it has done after recent meetings, it gave no indication it was [...]
Investors stay wary despite energy fuelling rise on FTSE December 13, 2011 THE FTSE 100 rebounded in low volume yesterday, with energy stocks rallying on the back of soaring oil prices. The oil and gas sector index rose 2.3 per cent, tracking a rise in the price of crude. That came after the International Energy Agency said it expected demand growth next year, and Citigroup raised its [...]
Time to say the unsayable – European unification needs to restart without the euro December 13, 2011 DAVID Cameron’s veto last week expresses again the British elites’ long running ambivalence to the European project. Though probably not his intention, his oppositional stance also represented something perhaps more novel: a tiny dent to the dominant assumption that nothing is more important today than “saving the euro”. A parallel point to ponder is that [...]
Durban’s climate conference puts green deal on ice December 13, 2011 AFTER two weeks of talks and partying, delegates at the UN climate summit in Durban agreed to meet again for further talks and partying around the dream of a global climate treaty. As expected, an informal coalition of major emitters such as the USA, China, India and Russia won the battle at the climate talks [...]
Automatic fines are a SAD Eurozone policy December 13, 2011 THE cold war policy of mutual assured destruction stuck many people as mad. If the Soviet Union was wicked and foolish enough to launch a nuclear attack on the United States, killing millions of innocent Americans and plunging the planet into a nuclear winter, it would be crazy to compound this wickedness with a retaliatory [...]
RAPID RESPONSES December 13, 2011 Higgs resurrected After Philip Ball’s Forum piece on the Higgs boson [Physicists are hunting for a so-called God particle, but their faith is dwindling fast, 25 November] I had begun to wonder if the £6bn large hadron collider was simply the most expensive piece of scientific equipment that had ever been set up to search [...]
Bursting the Eurozone’s AAA rated bubble December 13, 2011 WITH the long-term health of the AAA-ratings of the core Eurozone countries looking shaky at best, is it going to be a case of last man standing for Europe? And will the credit ratings agencies end up deciding the direction of the haven currency flows? Sarkozy has been telling anyone who will listen that, should [...]
FOREX ANALYST PICKS December 13, 2011 FOREX STRATEGIST JOHN KICKLIGHTER My pick: Long dollar-Swiss franc; long euro-Swiss franc; short Aussie-Kiwi Expertise: Fundamental analysis with risk management Average time frame of trades: 1 day to 1 week Risk trends are still not consistent for capital and forex markets and because of end-of-year liquidity issues, I‘m hesitant to take positions requiring a meaningful [...]
