Hong Kong Racing Tips: Royal Racer the one for the King of the Valley December 8, 2020 YOU CAN guarantee that trainer Caspar Fownes eyes would have lit up when he heard there was a £20,000 prize up for grabs for gaining the most points in the International Jockeys Challenge on Wednesday. 53-year-old Fownes, the current runaway leader in the trainers’ title race with 31 winners – nine clear of his nearest [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Doyle can end 2020 Smiling December 8, 2020 ENGLISH pilot Hollie Doyle is having a season which must have exceeded even her wildest expectations. The trailblazing jockey has enjoyed an unbelievable season, which has included a Royal Ascot winner, two Group 1 winners on British Champions Day and finishing fourth in the British Jockeys’ Championship. If that wasn’t enough, she won the Sunday [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Valley punters will be Grateful Moore is back December 8, 2020 IT’S showtime at Happy Valley on Wednesday when the inner-city track hosts the International Jockeys’ Championship, a four-race format with £50,000 and trophy to the winning jockey. With a galaxy of star jockeys from around the world, including English contingent Tom Marquand, Hollie Doyle, Ryan Moore and William Buick, as well as local favourites Joao [...]
FTSE 100 falls along with pound amid Brexit impasse December 8, 2020 The FTSE 100 fell and the pound slipped again as Brexit talks continued, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to fly to Brussels for last-ditch talks. The London stock index was down 0.5 per cent, hitting 6,521 points. The FTSE 250 – made up of smaller firms – was also down 0.5 per cent. Read [...]
47 per cent of UK exports flow to EU while a mere four per cent of bloc’s goods end up in Britain: study December 8, 2020 Brexit will have a far greater impact on UK trade than it will on EU businesses, primarily because the UK relies more heavily on the EU for its imports and exports than vice versa. According to a new study by the ifo Center for International Economics, the UK relied on the EU for 50 per [...]
Market Finance to make £5,000 grants available to UK SMEs December 8, 2020 Market Finance has announced an SME fund that will make grants available to businesses struggling amid the pandemic. The fintech lender has launched the Business Booster Fund which will make grants of £5,000 available to the UK’s small firms in a bid to help them “kickstart” 2021. The initiative is broad brush – any business [...]
Liquid December 8, 2020 Futures Flying Bitcoin traded steady around the $19,000 level as the aggregate futures open interest remained just shy of $7bn. The growing use of derivatives is evident across most platforms with the exception of Bitmex which continues to languish following its spat with regulators. Liquidity begets liquidity and it will take a lot more than [...]
Joules sales hit by lockdowns and country show cancellations, sending shares lower December 8, 2020 Sales at Joules sunk in the six months to the end of NOvember due to lockdowns and Covid-19, sending shares lower
Oligarch’s son embroiled in divorce case lost $50m in ‘risky’ trades December 8, 2020 The son of a Russian oligarch at the centre of a huge divorce case said he did not conceal assets and instead lost the money while trading at university. London oil trader Temur Akhmedov said $50m in funds from his father, Farkhad, did not disappear because he was hiding the assets from his mother Tatiana. [...]
A 2020 roundup December 8, 2020 As we come into the final chapter of 2020, it is safe to say this has been a challenging year with the many new and unfamiliar situations that the world has had to quickly adapt to. Almost overnight, the world had to adjust to a new way of living and working which has seen nearly [...]
