Now for 9.4 secs, says record monopolising sprint king Bolt August 17, 2009 SPRINT sensation Usain Bolt has set his sights on running the 100m in 9.4 seconds after shattering the world record yet again. The Jamaican obliterated the previous best time, which he set at last year’s Beijing Olympics, by the unprecedented margin of 0.11 seconds at the World Championships in Berlin on Sunday. And now the [...]
Flintoff made to work for England cause August 17, 2009 ANDREW FLINTOFF faces a potentially gruelling workload after being named in England’s one-day and Twenty20 squads. The all-rounder has battled through the Ashes series with a knee injury and will quit Test cricket at the end of the deciding match at The Oval this weekend to concentrate on the limited-overs game. And he’ll have plenty [...]
CITY EYE August 17, 2009 DON’T LOOK DOWN: a resident descends the concrete staircase in the Cromwell Tower on the Barbican Estate. The tower, which stands 123 ft high, was built in 1973 and named after the historical Republican figure Oliver Cromwell.
SPINVOX ACTIVIST KICKS UP A RUMPUS August 17, 2009 THE rumpus surrounding controversial voice-to-text messaging firm SpinVox continues apace. After the firm recently admitted some of its messages are translated into text manually by workers outside the UK, some former customers are up in arms – and I read on a techie blog that one in particular is spearheading a drive to persuade people [...]
NYSE Euronext sees IPO pick-up August 17, 2009 NYSE Euronext sees encouraging signs for initial public offerings in 2010 as investors venture back into stocks, top executives at the company said yesterday. NYSE expects to have 20 IPOs by the end of year, up from the 15 so far in 2009, and sees continued demand for new offerings next year.
Anglo Irish appoints new boss August 17, 2009 Nationalised Irish lender Anglo Irish Bank has appointed Australian banker Mike Aynsley as its new chief executive, the country’s finance minister Brian Lenihan said in a statement yesterday. Anglo, which was taken over by the government in January, has been without a chief executive since David Drumm resigned last December after a string of scandals. [...]
Women graduates win work war August 17, 2009 Women graduates are weathering the financial storm more successfully than their male counterparts, a survey said yesterday. Around one in 10 men who graduated last summer have not found employment, while only 6.5 per cent of women are unemployed. Around 10,000 male graduates have couldn’t find work in the six months after they left university, [...]
DO MICHAEL PAGE’S RESULTS SPELL BETTER NEWS FOR THE JOBS MARKET? August 17, 2009 ROBERT MORTON INVESTECToday’s announcement covers another very difficult trading period, with activity continuing to weaken across the group. But, as with its peer group, Michael Page’s share price rests on recovery prospects rather than current trading, and we continue to rate the stock a “hold”. PAUL JONES PANMURE GORDONThe results were as expected. In terms [...]
Jobs market in the City is beginning to stabilise, says survey August 17, 2009 THE NUMBER of new City jobs dropped by seven per cent month-on-month in July, but still hit its second highest level this year, according to a survey out today. Morgan McKinley’s employment monitor shows that, at 3,528, the number of new vacancies in the financial services sector was second only to June’s figure. “With employers’ [...]
Michael Page profits plummet in the slump August 17, 2009 RECRUITER Michael Page said yesterday that profits had been slashed in half in the first six months of the year, but that the jobs market in the UK was showing signs of stabilisation. The FTSE 250 firm said that it had made a pre-tax profit of £43.2m, down 49 per cent year-on-year, on revenues which [...]
