Europe’s tale of two currencies couldn’t be more different March 8, 2011 PARTS of Geneva may now be starting to look like Fulham as bankers and fund managers flee there to celebrate the manyfold merits of the UK’s 50 per cent income tax rate. The Swiss treasury, probably progressive taxation’s biggest champion, had also seen its franc strengthen. Its status as a haven currency was recently underlined [...]
GET TRADING EDUCATION ON A SHOESTRING March 8, 2011 CONSULTING ANALYST, INTERTRADER I RECEIVED a phone call from a guy who wanted help with his trading. He had spent nearly £15,000 on trading education with a well known educational trading establishment. Yet he was nowhere closer to making trading his chosen career than he was before, despite his sizeable investment in trading education. I [...]
FOREX ANALYST PICKS March 8, 2011 FOREX STRATEGIST JOHN KICKLIGHTER My pick: Short Aussie dollar-dollar, Long dollar-Swiss franc Expertise: Fundamental and Technical Analysis with Risk Management Average time frame of trades: 1 day to 1 week Opposing views on the yen with my long dollar-yen and short euro-yen tripped a first target on the first and stop on the second. The [...]
THE TIPSTER March 8, 2011 EUROPEAN officials are preparing to announce a comprehensive solution to the “peripheral problem”, with an expansion of the existing European financial stability facility (EFSF). Given the market focus on the issue, it is likely that a large proportion of market participants are speculatively short on the euro as a hedge against default risk becoming market [...]
Vive la difference March 8, 2011 DRIVING the Peugeot iOn is certainly unusual. Until now the only electric cars I have driven have been the excellent Tesla sports car that looks like a Lotus Elise, and the considerably less good G-Wiz which looks like Noddy built it on his weekends from a kit. These cars exist at opposite ends of the [...]
CAR TALK March 8, 2011 Mini Rocketman Ok, so it’s an awful name but this is the coolest Mini since Alec Issigonis penned the original. Unlike the Minis in the current range, this one – called Rocketman – is a real mini Mini at last. Launched last week at the Geneva motor show, the car has a 3+1 seating layout [...]
The Games mean business March 8, 2011 London 2012 is fast-approaching and in the east of London, the landscape has altered significantly as the Olympic Park rises up from what was a previously under-developed patch of earth. Its progress is tribute to the Olympic Delivery Authority and the 10,000 or so workers who are charged with its construction. It will host world [...]
Business has won already March 8, 2011 That much of the debate over the Olympics has focused on what happens to its venues after 2012 speaks volumes for the efficiency with which the games have so far been organised. Instead of the endless speculation of whether venue X or Y will be ready on time that is normal territory in the months [...]
SEEING THE GAMES IN STYLE March 8, 2011 It’s the only time in your life that the Olympics will be in London. And you’re in. As you walk into the winged, three-floor structure attached to the Olympic Park for dinner, the very building seems to urge you on to rejoice in, quite simply, how cool this all is. “We want people to exclaim: [...]
The main Events March 8, 2011 ATHLETICS 3–11 August OVERVIEW Not just one event of course but a multitude of disciplines taking in track, field, combined and road competitions, athletics is the cornerstone and focus of any Olympics. More than 2,000 athletes will taking part, including sprint superstar Usain Bolt [pictured, right] a number of Britons who have been working towards [...]
