RAPID RESPONSES November 1, 2011 Simply complex In response to Gemma Godfrey [The EU’s decision process: It’s not rocket science, on Monday], I think we’ve outlived a time where the world economy worked mostly in a linear fashion that’s easy to grasp and extrapolate (e.g. if exports grow by X per cent, and unemployment falls by Y per cent, GDP [...]
Japan can’t scare off safe haven status November 1, 2011 THE yen will continue to strengthen against major currencies. No matter the actions of Japan’s authorities, attempts to bring it down are destined to fail. It is not as though Japan’s leaders haven’t been trying – the economy has been mismanaged for decades. But interventions and gargantuan government debt have done nothing to dissuade the [...]
DON’T TOE THE LINE OF CABLE COMPLACENCY November 1, 2011 LOOKING at the carnage that is the Eurozone today from the comfort of a Canary Wharf office, it is easy to feel superior. After all, the UK appears to be relatively immune to the chaos that’s currently occurring in European capital markets. With Greece “circling the drain” as some of my fellow analysts have so [...]
THE TIPSTER November 1, 2011 AFTER a month long rally against the dollar, the euro wiped out almost half the gains falling 440 pips in one day, with the news of a Greek referendum and the European Central Bank’s consideration in cutting rates looming large. The euro-dollar pair is in freefall and will take a strong bit of positive news [...]
FOREX ANALYST PICKS November 1, 2011 FOREX STRATEGIST JOHN KICKLIGHTER My pick: Long dollar-Canadian dollar, short sterling-dollar Expertise: Fundamental analysis with risk management Average time frame of trades: 1 day to 1 week We witnessed an incredible swing in risk trends preventing both my sterling-yen and Aussie-dollar setups from triggering. The dollar-Canadian dollar managed to hit the Ca$0.9970 short, but it [...]
Life beyond the web for a new age of daters November 1, 2011 IT’s been a long day and you’re tired. But when you get home you have another job to do: search through thousands of faces for your potential life partner and reply to a half-dozen or so relevant messages from fellow cyber love-seekers. Internet dating is no longer considered weird or sad – roughly 5.2m Brits [...]
BEYOND THE INTERNET | MATCHMAKING THROUGH PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS November 1, 2011 • Shared Tables Society, sharedtables.com Arranges dinners where four single men and four single women meet. Members are invited by existing members: each time you sign up to a dinner or “table” you have to recommend four other singles. Attracts a high-calibre, international crowd of late-20s, early 30s professionals. Website is truly “cool”. Upsides: Almost [...]
The Q3: Audi’s likeable compact SUV November 1, 2011 INTERNALLY, Audi calls it “the product firework”. With 12 new models introduced in the last five years and seven more planned for introduction by 2015, it seems the Four Rings can do no wrong. The Ingolstadt manufacturer seems to have an almost alchemic ability to find success in whatever niche it enters. But it is [...]
CAR TALK November 1, 2011 FORD’S YOUNG-DRIVER PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY Ford has introduced technology which helps parents to prevent young drivers from receiving calls while driving. The feature, which is part of Ford’s MyKey technology, is called “Do Not Disturb” and blocks incoming phone calls or text messages from a Bluetooth-paired mobile phone. Calls are diverted to voicemail and text messages [...]
