Three ways to limit your trading losses October 24, 2011 THE financial markets might be nervous and jumpy, but you don’t need to be if you’re thinking about learning to trade. There are plenty of ways to limit your losses. Here are our top three tips from the experts. 1. KEEP YOUR EMOTIONS IN CHECK Jamieson Blake of Capital Spreads says: “Emotional psychology is one [...]
Football clubs on side in support of the economy October 24, 2011 UNTOLD ink is expended on the trials and tribulations of England’s football clubs. Public houses would be thrown into silence without our national pastime and fervent worshippers spend money hand over fist to prove their allegiance to their club. Yet this national obsession is all too rarely thought about as the economic powerhouse it is. [...]
BALANCE RISKS TO OUTPERFORM BY REPUTATION October 24, 2011 WHAT a summer of sport we’ve seen. And with the handover of the Rugby World Cup baton on to England for 2015, the UK hosting of the 2012 Olympics, and not forgetting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014, there hasn’t been a better time to be involved the sports, leisure and entertainment (SLE) world. [...]
Don’t let winter’s shorter days leave you feeling blue October 24, 2011 WINTER may have been slow to arrive. But when the clocks go back, there’s no denying that it’s here. This Sunday, British Summer Time comes to an end, which means that we’ll soon be going to work and coming back home in the dark. This may make some of us feel that we’d rather stay [...]
Episode 33: Life after paternity leave: going back to the office October 24, 2011 THERE is coffee and there are biscuits. There’s an office with a desk and a chair where I may sit, undisturbed, should I so wish, sometimes for as much as minutes at a time. There’s a diary, filled with names, times and places for meetings. Meetings during which my counsel will be sought, my advice [...]
FIT IN THE CITY October 24, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT WE may be approaching the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but there are still plenty of fun, fabulous, fitness-based activities on offer that will enable you to contribute to this great cause. I’ve rounded up the best of the bunch still on offer: from pink bootcamps to bra binning to [...]
All souped up in Soho: yet another super-cool food bar enters the fray October 24, 2011 DUCK SOUP 41 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 4PY www.ducksoupsoho.co.uk FOOD *** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £30 IT’s all part of the Soho experience – the perch at the bar, the swiveling stool, getting up close and personal with the waitress pushing past you. Duck Soup, which is staffed by alumni [...]
Amarone: the super-charged Valpolicella October 24, 2011 HEAD SOMMELIER AND MANAGER OF LUTYENS RESTAURANT IN the North of Italy in the Veneto, there’s a wine called Valpolicella. Perhaps you know it as a light, cheerful, quaffing sort of wine with some bright cherry fruit – something to drink on holiday but nothing, frankly, to write home about. In fact, like many famous [...]
Netflix to launch UK service October 24, 2011 Netflix has said it will launch a subscription service in the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012, offering unlimited TV shows and movie streaming over the Internet. The service will be available to customers on a monthly subscription basis, Netflix said. The company said further details about the service, including pricing, content and supported [...]
Miners lead FTSE up after China boost October 24, 2011 Markets have risen this morning triggered by hopes that a deal to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis can be put together while manufacturing data showed China’s growth is picking up. Although a weekend summit of Eurozone leaders was inconclusive with bickering clouding the talks. The skeleton of a deal was agreed with a summit to [...]
