CFD ANALYST PICKS May 24, 2010 TECHNICAL STRATEGIST JOEL KRUGER My pick: Long FTSE 100 at 5,000 Expertise: Technical analysis Average time frame of trades: 5-10 days We had to wait the entire week, but our counter-trend long recommendation was finally triggered on Friday. The market dropped through our psychological barrier to trade slightly below 5,000, before bouncing into the close [...]
Tensions within the Eurozone put the single currency’s future at risk May 24, 2010 RESEARCH DIRECTOR, FOREX.COM JANE FOLEY IT SEEMS improbable that fiscal issues in a small country such as Greece could make the government of a country as large as the US worried about contagion. Yet this is exactly what has happened. This is only so, of course, because the US government is mindful of its own [...]
Unleash your inner Borg this summer May 24, 2010 OF ALL sports, tennis is surely the one best enjoyed in summer, or the few weeks of the year when the sun deigns us worthy of a few rays. Who wants to dust off their racket to play indoors or under grey skies on some unforgiving-to-the-knees all-weather court? Very few people, if our dearth of [...]
It’s sun, camera, and action for the holiday May 24, 2010 JVC GZ-HM1 £694.00 www.hi-camera.com This model has storage for six hours of 1,080p video on its 64GB flash memory (plus room for three hours more in its memory slot) and is a winner in this year’s Press Association awards. Optical image stabilisation enables smooth use of the 20x zoom with additional advanced stabilisation for panning. [...]
Season’s hottest sun lotions May 24, 2010 MOST of us will be a bit pink after the last few days. And while the mercury is dropping again, we can only hope this is the real beginning of summer. As soon as it warms up, we run for the parks and beach, begging the sun to singe us. But blocking its harmful rays [...]
Great hair and glowing skin for summer May 24, 2010 Grooming News A-LIST BARBERING AT REALHAIR REALHAIR on Cale Street is as institutional as a London hairdresser can be. Celebrities, bohemians and Sloane Rangers waft in and out all day, and it has its own range of products. Many patrons are there to see the super-talented creative director John Vial, highlighter and women’s hair sculptor [...]
SEX AND THE CITY 2 SPECIAL May 24, 2010 SPECIAL EDITION SKYY BOTTLE What would Sex and the City be without vodka cocktails? With this in mind, Costume Designer Patricia Field has designed a limited edition SKYY Vodka Sex and the City 2 bottle, the first themed design change to the iconic cobalt blue SKYY bottle in the brand’s history. Bottles are £15.29 from?Waitrose, [...]
Room with a brilliant view May 24, 2010 Paramount Centre Point, 101-103 New Oxford Street WC1A 1DD. Tel: 020 7420 2900, www.paramount.uk.net Cost per person without wine: £45 IN the food’n’drinkosphere, the days of exclusivity seem to be numbered – just last week, private casino Les Ambassadeurs opened its restaurant, The Milroy, for the hoi polloi’s lunchtime pleasure. Bureau, another swanky bar/lounge that [...]
Guess what? M&S is heaven for hop heads this summer May 24, 2010 ON a hot summer’s evening everybody deserves a nice, cold beer. For years I have despaired of poor choice in the shops I pass on my way home. Maybe I am out of the loop, but last week I made a discovery: M&S does amazing beer. Tucked at the back of my local store, behind [...]
THREE OTHER GOBSMACKING VIEWS May 24, 2010 40/30 AT THE GHERKIN (MEMBERS ONLY), CITY If you’re not a member, then make sure that you know someone who is, and get them to invite you as much as possible for lunch at this extravagantly windowed restaurant. It’s like eating on a rooftop, only far more refined. 25 St Mary Axe EC3A 8AA, ww.searcys.co.uk. [...]
