HOW TO GET DRESSED November 10, 2011 FOUNDERS OF ROUS ILAND MEMBERS’ BOUTIQUE Q.I head up a team at work. I like wearing pencil skirts but how can I be sure to avoid the “sexy secretary” look? A.In less emancipated times, when women were restricted to purely junior support roles, the pencil skirt was a woman’s key work-wear piece. In the 80s [...]
Divers and Noble Alan can be our friends in the North November 10, 2011 PAUL Nicholls saddles red-hot favourite Mon Parrain in tomorrow’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham (2.35pm) and the five-year-old is already as short as 3/1 with a few firms. However, the master of Ditcheat has yet to win this prestigious handicap and he has sent out plenty of well-fancied disappointments over the last few years. [...]
ENGLAND vs SPAIN November 10, 2011 I NORMALLY wouldn’t touch international friendlies with a barge pole, but tomorrow’s encounter between England and Spain at Wembley is an exception. The world champions are simply in a different stratosphere to the Three Lions and they have to be backed at 10/11 with Ladbrokes. Bookmakers initially had Spain at odds against for this encounter, [...]
HOT TIPPING November 10, 2011 The Punter tipped up two 12/1 winners last weekend and a 25/1 each-way third. This came on top of three out of four winning football bets.
ENDGAME November 9, 2011 THE CLOCK is ticking for the European Central Bank (ECB) and international community to step in to save Italy, economists warned as the country’s borrowing costs shot through the roof yesterday. Stocks across the world fell as the crisis escalated, with the Dow plummeting 3.2 per cent, the DAX falling 2.21 per cent. and VIX, [...]
Bring back Olympus CEO: funds November 9, 2011 BAILLIE Gifford, the Edinburgh-based fund manager, yesterday called for the reinstatement of Michael Woodford as president and CEO of Olympus nearly a month after he was fired from the group after questioning controversial payments. Baillie Gifford’s investment manager Iain Campbell says the group’s current management is now discredited. Baillie Gifford holds about four per cent [...]
Greece left headless as politicians fight November 9, 2011 GREECE was left without a government for a fourth day running last night after squabbling politicians failed to announce a successor to fill the vacuum left by Prime Minister George Papandreou, who resigned yesterday. The failure of the country’s political elite to strike an agreement leaves two of the Eurozone’s crisis-hit countries without governments, as [...]
The penny drops at last in Europe November 9, 2011 IN a rational market, risk as well as return is at the forefront of investors’ minds. They demand a high rate of interest to lend to risky companies, individuals or countries – and a low one to invest in safe havens. The problem during bubbles is that investors drunk on excessive liquidity – and who [...]
Life after the Eurozone planned for peripheral states facing possible exit November 9, 2011 GERMAN and French officials have discussed the formation of a more tightly integrated core Eurozone, while separate reports from Germany reveal that Angela Merkel’s party is investigating ways of some countries leaving the single currency while staying in the European Union. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union will publish a paper today on how Eurozone members might [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 9, 2011 THE TIMES SMALL BUSINESSES NEED HELP TO EXPORT, SAY MINISTERS Banks and corporate advisers must do more to encourage small companies to break into export markets, the government will say today. Ministers will tell a conference of advisers in London that they have a key role in boosting the relatively low number of smaller British [...]
