US markets make strong comeback August 24, 2011 US stocks posted strong gains for a second day yesterday as investors jumped back into beaten-down financial shares and backed away from safer assets like gold in volatile trading. The stock market swung back and forth as investors anticipated a key speech from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday. There had been hope the [...]
Where savers should turn to protect their wealth August 24, 2011 MANY in the UK look upon the peripheral economies of Europe – living on borrowed money and reliant on the kindness of tourists to keep them from falling back into the dark ages – with disdain. However, the UK’s facade of economic power is also crumbling – the East is in the ascendancy, with India [...]
Three ways to get the trading edge August 24, 2011 IN the high-frequency forex-trading sphere, it is latency of executions that grabs the headlines – that is the delay between an order being sent to a venue, and the venue executing that order. But as Dan Hubscher, industry marketing manager for Progress Software points out, investing in low latency trading execution systems is simply your [...]
Learn the art of persuasion from a master August 24, 2011 WHETHER it’s striking a deal with a client or discussing your bonus with your boss, negotiation is a fact of life for those in the City. Indeed, it’s a skill that you need to master if you want to do well at work. Since every career coach and management guru seems to have a different [...]
Understanding the headhunting game August 24, 2011 HEADHUNTER THE best CV I’ve ever received came from a well-respected FTSE non-executive director who managed to squeeze his already successful career onto a single page. I love to receive CVs, but paragraphs of superlatives and hyperbole are not very useful. Recruiters work to find candidates who fulfil their clients’ concrete requirements. We look for [...]
Barnes thrills with English storytelling at its terse best August 24, 2011 THE SENSE OF AN ENDING BY JULIAN BARNES Jonathan Cape, £12.99 IN the past, I have found Julian Barnes – most famously author of Flaubert’s Parrot – less tractable than his contemporaries. If given the choice between Ian McEwan – of whose even-shorter novella On Chesil Beach this book reminds me – or Martin Amis, [...]
My boyfriend gets drunk so often. Does he have a problem? August 24, 2011 SOLVING YOUR WORK-LIFE PROBLEMS My boyfriend works as a broker and booze is a big part of his (and our) lives. We all love a drink or two with mates after work, but he drinks at lunch and gets smashed at least three times a week. He comes home at 4AM and wakes me up, [...]
For the best in-car sound system around, go British August 24, 2011 IT would be easy to assume that having a spectacular in-car sound system would mean having a spectacularly loud sound system – the kind of pimped-up, bass-heavy bulldozer of a system that occupies the entire boot and can shake a whole neighbourhood. But that would be wrong. Instead of volume and bass thump, consider a [...]
Watch out for the mobile apps that hide malware August 24, 2011 TECH TALK IT would be crass to describe smartphones as the new rock and roll – but they do make beautiful music. But like many top, none-too-reliable performers, your mobile can’t handle money, everybody wants a piece of it and it’s incredibly insecure. Which is dangerous enough in a musician but fatal for a computer [...]
Taking soundbars into orbit August 24, 2011 IT looks like the looming black monolith from 2001, A Space Odyssey, but the speaker system on the left is a deft spatial stereo gizmo constructed by another plucky British company, the sci fi-sounding Orbitsound. Announced this week and coming into shops next month, the soundbar (which has the not-exactly-charismatic title of T12v3) is able [...]
