What A Friend Sir Alex has in tomorrow’s Betfair Chase November 18, 2010 IT was nice to finally be back amongst the winners last week and I hope you managed to snap up some of the 15/2 available about Menorah early on Sunday morning. Long Run was a little disappointing in the Paddy Power Gold Cup, but all those who followed our each-way tip on Poquelin were in [...]
THE INSIDER November 18, 2010 FOR ME it really is back to getting the All Weather form sorted and trying to pick off some good value winners over the winter months. I like the jumps but I have found over the past few seasons that the flat offers some great value at this time of year. The races that catch [...]
Bailout looms for troubled Ireland November 17, 2010 A bailout for troubled Ireland drew closer last night as an international taskforce prepared for crunch negotiations over the country’s economic future. Representatives from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission – the same team that descended on Greece – will begin their work in Dublin this morning. They will [...]
Goldman hires 110 partners November 17, 2010 GOLDMAN Sachs yesterday released the names of 110 of its staff who have been promoted to partner. Less than 500 of Goldman’s total workforce of 35,000 are honoured with the title. The number promoted is around 10 per cent higher than the average and the highest since 2006. Just 94 employees were promoted to partner [...]
Ireland’s crisis won’t destroy the UK November 17, 2010 ONCE again, UK taxpayers are about to be asked to bail out a failed organisation, in this case the Irish state. This is a tragedy, because Ireland has actually sorted out its day to day public finances but stupidly decided to guarantee all of the liabilities of all of its banks, something it couldn’t possible [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 17, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES AGARWAL’S PROJECT QUASHED Anil Agarwal, the Indian billionaire who controls Vedanta, the UK-listed mining group, has suffered a setback to his philanthropic ambitions, hard on the heels of legal problems this year involving some of the group’s Indian operations. Mr Agarwal’s plans to build a $3.3bn (£2.1bn) university in a coastal area of [...]
FRENCH LESSON November 17, 2010 ENGLAND 1 vs FRANCE 2 ENGLAND manager Fabio Capello came out fighting after his decision to field an experimental side backfired on another desperately forgettable night for the national team. Goals in either half from Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena hardly did justice to the gulf in class between the two sides, with Peter Crouch’s [...]
England mindset is: it’ll be alright on night. It won’t November 17, 2010 ON a soaking wet, wintry November evening some 85,000 people took the trouble to turn up at Wembley – and were given absolutely nothing to cheer about. It all felt so flat, and so did England’s performance. Fabio Capello’s men were very, very poor and never had France on the rack. What really worries me [...]
Vale SA plans spending spree November 17, 2010 Vale SA plans to spend more than $10bn over the next five years to expand its operations in Canada, an investment that may soothe critics of the Brazilian mining giant’s track record in the country. The company said yesterday that the large-scale investments have already started and will ramp up during 2011. Vale bought the [...]
SocGen man makes confession November 17, 2010 A former Societe Generale trader admitted he took home printouts of the French bank’s speed-trading code, admitted sharing it with a prospective employer and that it was wrong, an odd twist in the criminal trial over trade secrets theft. The trial of Samarth Agrawal, a citizen of India, is expected to go to the jury [...]
