Four skills for trading when volatility is high August 8, 2011 A VOLATILE market can be an unforgiving beast, swinging wildly from bull to bear, as animal spirits rampage and investors take flight. The Vix index – a measure of market fear – broke through 40 yesterday, its highest reading since 25 May 2010, indicating that we are living once more in volatile times. Following the [...]
A POTENTIAL SILVER LINING IN THE STORM August 8, 2011 SO WHAT next for precious metals? Gold has made a succession of fresh highs over the past twelve months, and current events in Europe and the US have seen it reach higher once again this week. Back in May, silver came close to breaking above its record close of $50/oz, but it is currently trading [...]
EPISODE 21: Deal-breaking with Emma August 8, 2011 Iclimb the stairs, bearing a tray. A half bottle of Krug champagne – after all, we’re pregnant – two crystal flutes and six stems of “Emma”, a dark pink, strongly fragranced rose, in Emma’s favourite vase. I enter our bedroom. Emma reclines, reading. I place the tray next to the bed. “Gosh. What’s this all [...]
Health on a summery plate August 8, 2011 Francois O’Neill, Brompton Bar & Grill Bressola, Nectarine and Mozzarella Salad with Lemon & Mint Serves 2 Salad • 6 slices of Bressola • 1 nectarine – halved and sliced into 8-10 pieces • 1 ball of mozzarella – torn into pieces • 1 large handful of lambs lettuce • 4 mint leaves – finely [...]
Last-minute beach shape up August 8, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT LEFT it until the week before your holiday to tackle the Magnum/Magners muffin top? Here’s my three day countdown that will leave you looking and feeling buff in your swimming shorts. DO A DETOX A healthy detox is one of the better ways to drop weight drastically in the 72 hr [...]
Scotland comes to the Wharf August 8, 2011 Boisdale Canary Wharf Cabot Place, Canary Wharf, E14 4QT www.boisdale.co.uk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £45 CANARY Wharf is not the easiest place to bring culture to – even at its most alive, it has a certain, well, spartan feeling. Those open precincts, crisp architectural angles and endless escalators scream deal-making and [...]
Twitter and Facebook don’t start riots, people do August 8, 2011 IT’S happening. The robots have made their first move. It’s only a matter of time until we’re demoted to the role of giant human udders, the very marrow being milked from our bones to feed the ceaseless hunger of the machines. Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) have turned on us like virtual Frankenstein’s monsters, [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 8, 2011 MAKING THE CUT ON PARK LANE Time was when about the best a Londoner could expect in terms of steak was the kind of abomination served in an Aberdeen Steak House. No longer. In the last 18 months, London has been sprouting quality steak restaurants in droves, and the latest to the party is Wolfgang [...]
Royal London merger to cost 110 jobs August 8, 2011 Royal London, Britain’s biggest mutually-owned insurer, said a net 110 jobs would go as it absorbs merger partner Royal Liver. Royal London will close its office in Liverpool at the cost of 222 jobs and transfer its functions to an existing office in Wilmslow, where 105 new roles will be created, the insurer said on [...]
Barratt in talks to sell loans book August 8, 2011 Housebuilder Barratt Developments said it is in early talks with investors to sell part of its shared equity mortgage book, a set of loans which might whet the appetites of private equity or banks. Britain’s largest housebuilder by volume confirmed press speculation on Monday that it is mulling a partial sale of its portfolio of [...]
