Wall Street cheers as markets surge July 23, 2009 US stocks surged yesterday, sending the Dow industrials above the key 9,000 mark for the first time since January, as strong corporate profits and rebounding home sales spurred optimism about the economy. The broad-based rally helped all 10 of the S&P 500’s benchmark sectors finish the day in positive territory. Strong profits from bellwethers such [...]
FTSE 100 hits a yearly high on cheery earnings season July 23, 2009 THE FTSE 100 broke through the 4,500 level yesterday as it rose for the ninth straight day on the back of positive economic data and a rally in banks and miners. The index rose by 66.07 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 4,559.80, the highest closing level since early January, having touched a high of [...]
SPREAD BETTING PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW July 23, 2009 THE BIG question for any football punter prior to this season is ‘can Man City break into the Big Four?’. Mark Hughes has spent millions and although it looks like he’s been unsuccessful in his bid for John Terry, people are starting to sit up and take notice. Sporting Index are predicting that City will [...]
Button and Brawn can get F1 season back on track July 23, 2009 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX, SUNDAY 1PM, BBC 1 THE FORMULA ONE season is past its halfway point and Brawn GP’s shock domination of earlier in the year is, after nine races, neither a shock nor even much of a domination. The Red Bull car has been the other revelation of the season and while Sebastian Vettel [...]
the INSIDER July 23, 2009 IN SEA THE STARS’ absence this Group One contest loses a little bit of its magic, but even so it should be an exciting spectacle with so many evenly rated runners in the field. Aidan O’Brien and Sir Michael Stoute hold most of the cards and the outcome of the race will most probably be [...]
Stoute can beat O’Brien to fourth King George win with classy Conduit July 23, 2009 THE TWO master trainers from each side of the Irish Sea do battle in tomorrow’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (4.25pm) at Ascot. Sir Michael Stoute and Aidan O’Brien have both won the race three times and will be represented by three runners apiece. The betting indicates that Stoute is more likely to [...]
THEATRICAL LORD TURNER PROVES HIMSELF A NATURAL ON THE STAGE July 23, 2009 MY, OH my, but our Lord Turner isn’t half one to soak up the limelight. Commanding the stage at yesterday’s annual public meeting, the FSA’s chairman put a sweating, red-faced Hector Sants to shame under the lights as he fielded questions from the floor with panache, authoritatively pointing out the chosen ones like the best [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS July 23, 2009 FILMTHE PROPOSAL Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock star in a rom com desperately short on com. SKIN Sophie Okonedo stars in this true story about racism in South Africa’s apartheid years. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Sergio Leone’s classic western rereleased, with Charles Bronson. DVDWATCHMEN Tiresome adaptation of the famous comic, starring Billy [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST July 23, 2009 FILM: Soul Power Terrific documentary about the concerts that accompanied the Foreman-Ali Rumble in the Jungle boxing match. THEATRE: A Little Night Music Trevor Nunn’s charming revival of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical, at the Garrick Theatre. ART: Per Kirkeby Tate Modern’s survey of the lauded Danish artist. theatre: Phedre Dame Helen Mirren delivers the towering [...]
The return of film’s enfant terrible July 23, 2009 FilmANTICHRISTCert: 18 AFTER weeks of films vying to be the biggest of the year, it’s time for the one that already has the title sewn up of most harrowing and controversial. Lars von Trier has spent years gleefully blowing raspberries in the faces of moral arbiters, but the traumatic violence he’s constructed here is something [...]
