Testing trading systems December 11, 2011 WHILE sitting in front of a screen, clicking on buy buttons for stocks that you think are about to turn green and selling the ones that you have a hunch are going to turn red is good fun, it is also a quick way to burn through your cash. If you still want to be [...]
THE WEEK AHEAD December 11, 2011 COMPANY NEWS ● Betfair Group will announce its interim results tomorrow. The sports-focused online gambling exchange is betting on seeing the numbers in their favour. ● Domino Printing Sciences will announce its preliminary results tomorrow. The company is lasered in on industrial printing equipment. Carpetright, Britain’s largest carpet retailer, will also roll out its preliminary [...]
THE TIPSTER December 11, 2011 THERE was no end to the chaos and disorder in the markets last week as tape bombs from Europe continued to cream most traders’ positions. Crude oil traders seem to have lost their seemingly insatiable appetite to push prices above $100, as they slid back to $98 towards the end of the week – possibly [...]
Exchanging a career for entrepreneurial success December 11, 2011 DID anyone try to discourage you from starting the business? I ask Rupert Lee-Browne, the founder and chief executive of foreign exchange company Caxton FX. “No,” he says resolutely. “Well, they probably did, but I wouldn’t have listened,” he laughs. Lee-Browne, who describes himself as a “rubbish worker,” always had “an itch” to start something [...]
HOW TO DEFEND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY December 11, 2011 PROTECTING your intellectual property (IP) is crucial to the success of your business. No matter what profession you are in, you need to ensure that your originality is safeguarded from theft by utilising the four main IP rights that exist to help defend your intellectual property: patents, trademarks, design rights and copyright. As an inventor, [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF December 11, 2011 THE EAST END GETS AN UPGRADE San Francisco based start-up Eventbrite is coming to the east end of London – the online ticket-seller’s first international office. Eventbrite also serves as a platform on which organisers can plan events and promote them using social media. Co-founder of the company Renaud Visage says: “London will be our [...]
Vintage charm on the tiny island of Nevis December 11, 2011 GOOGLE “Nevis” and you’ll find very little about it on the internet. It’s a tiny Caribbean island, barely seven miles long, south of St Kitts and west of Montserrat, which harks back to a West Indies of 200 years ago. This is a place of sugar plantations, wooden Georgian cottages and Negroni-red sunsets – an [...]
Feel refreshed with a winter weekend in Fjord Norway December 11, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE As winter sets in, and one long dark evening seems to stretch into another, it is tempting to batten down the hatches and reach for the remote. Commutes home in the darkness, followed by evenings spent glued to the sofa, remote in hand, can leave even the most cheerful of souls feeling lethargic [...]
Stoke and ref Foy combine to ruin Spurs run December 11, 2011 STOKE CITY (2) vs TOTTENHAM (1) TOTTENHAM manager Harry Redknapp tore into referee Chris Foy after watching his side’s 11-match unbeaten run come to and end in controversial circumstances at the Britannia Stadium. Matthew Etherington struck twice against his former side in a first-half almost exclusively dominated by the home side. Emmanuel Adebayor’s penalty halved [...]
Major target for Donald December 11, 2011 After securing an historic money-list double, World No1 hopes 2012 represents the year he finally wins one of golf’s biggest prizes AN EMOTIONAL Luke Donald completed an unprecedented money-list double yesterday and immediately outlined his determination to ensure 2012 marks his maiden Major victory. The world No1 capped a sensational year in which he won [...]
