Time to buy your tickets for our special trading event May 8, 2012 IT IS safe to say that social media is now a key tool in today’s markets – helping you to trade. However, there are dangers too. Here are my top five tips for using social media to trade – a taster for the trading show on 24 May. 1 OPEN YOUR EYES Don’t blindly follow others [...]
SOCIAL MEDIA MEETS TRADING 12.30PM – 1.20PM, 24 MAY May 8, 2012 DAN MOCZULSKI LONDON CAPITAL GROUP Dan is commercial director at London Capital Group, which offers spread betting and contracts for difference. He also consults for Zignals – a Microsoft-backed company supporting easy creation and sharing of algorithmic trading strategies. Twitter: @dan_moczulski YONI ASSIA ETORO Yoni drives eToro’s strategic goals and oversees all its business units. [...]
Providing the intelligence behind the 2012 London Olympic Games May 8, 2012 COUNTDOWN TO THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 79 DAYS TO GO Q What was your brand’s primary reason for being involved with the Games? A London 2012 offers us a great platform to demonstrate how Nielsen provides information and insights to organisations to give them a comprehensive understanding of global consumers and markets. In addition [...]
New Mini roadster stays the course May 8, 2012 THE rain is biblical. At times the water flying from the tyres underneath the new Mini Roadster I’m in is almost all I can hear. Mini’s communications people are putting a brave face on it, but launching a roadster in such appalling weather is always disappointing. We don’t get to see too much of the [...]
CAR TALK May 8, 2012 Go “live” to win races If you’ve always dreamed of being a racing driver but your race-winning has remained stubbornly virtual, the fourth Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 contest is now “live”. Entrants have eight weeks to complete eight PS3 Gran Turismo virtual driving contests. Shortlisted drivers ultimately get to undertake real-world driver training at [...]
Fears for euro as voters vent anger May 7, 2012 FEARS were growing over the future of the single currency last night in the aftermath of elections that threw out another two European governments. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that renegotiating Europe’s new “fiscal pact” is not on the cards despite the election of a new French President, Francois Hollande, who has made overhauling the [...]
Risk of Greek euro exit rises after messy vote leaves no clear winner May 7, 2012 THE CHANCES of Greece leaving the euro jumped yesterday after national elections resulted in an anti-bailout party being given a mandate to form a government. Analysts at Citi revised upwards the probability of a Greek exit from the euro from 50 per cent to 50-75 per cent due to the growing likelihood that Greece will [...]
Eurozone elections will precipitate Greek exit May 7, 2012 A FRESH Eurozone crisis was always inevitable – the question was over its timing. At least now we have some clarity. What angry voters in France and Greece have done is to precipitate the next stage of the slow unravelling of Europe’s flawed structures. Greece would have gone bust and quit the euro regardless of [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 7, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Chinese groups drive rise in pre-sold HK IPOs Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery has enlisted nearly a dozen banks to hunt down investors willing to take stakes in the Chinese business ahead of its $1bn Hong Kong listing, an example of a trend gripping the world’s biggest market for new listings. Hopes rise UK [...]
Spanish banks stoke fears of costly bailouts May 7, 2012 FEARS were yesterday growing that Madrid will cough up billions to bail out Spain’s ailing banks as the chairman of Bankia, one of the country’s biggest lenders, quit suddenly. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy signalled that his government is lining up funds for a mass bailout as rumours circulated that Bankia, which only floated last [...]
