Moyes hopeful United fans are prepared to play waiting game July 29, 2013 MANCHESTER United manager David Moyes has pleaded for patience from the club’s fans when it comes to assessing his performance in the Old Trafford hot-seat next season. Moyes formally succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson less than a month ago and has endured indifferent fortunes on the pitch since, with just his second win in five pre-season [...]
Watson wants to mirror Murray’s success after changing her coach July 29, 2013 BRITISH No2 Heather Watson hopes a change of coach can spark similar success to that Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has enjoyed since teaming up with former world No1 Ivan Lendl last year. The 21-year-old has endured a difficult 2013, having missed two months of the tour with glandular fever, and was overtaken by compatriot Laura [...]
Golf Comment: All eyes on Mickelson’s bid for three triumphs in a row July 29, 2013 OPEN champion Phil Mickelson looks set to be the centre of attention once again this week when he returns to action at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational. The new world No2 is in red-hot form and aiming for a third consecutive victory, having also claimed the Scottish Open just days before his Muirfield triumph earlier this [...]
Birmingham plan pre-match tribute to former striker Benitez July 29, 2013 FORMER Birmingham striker Christian Benitez, 27, died suddenly yesterday after suffering a cardio-respiratory arrest, just hours after making his debut in Qatar. Ecuador international Benitez was admitted to hospital with severe stomach pains after playing for El Jaish against Qatar Sport Club and died soon afterwards. Known affectionately as Chucho, Benitez scored four times in [...]
Meilutyte, 16, breaks world record July 29, 2013 SWIMMING: Teenager Ruta Meilutyte broke the 100m breaststroke world record in the World Championship semi-finals in Barcelona yesterday. The 16-year-old, who won gold for Lithuania at last year’s Olympics, lives and trains in Plymouth and clocked one minute 4.30 seconds. She said: “A gold medal would be a cherry on top of the ice cream.”
Harvey named new league chief July 29, 2013 FOOTBALL: Former Leeds chief executive Shaun Harvey, 43, will assume the same role at the Football League from 1 October.
Bank of Italy to inspect finances of top lenders as bad loans could exceed £216bn July 29, 2013 The Bank of Italy is said to be inspecting the finances of some of the country's top lenders, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. As expected, the Bank of Italy is investigating about NPLs ratio in Italian banks’ balance sheets. — Fabrizio Goria (@FGoria) July 29, 2013 According to Linkiesta, non-performing loans could [...]
ECB set to publish rules for Emergency Liquidity Assistance July 29, 2013 The European Central Bank is going to publish details of rules for Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA), according to German newspaper Faz. Some rough translation from the Faz piece below: According to information from the FAZ, the Governing Council has decided that the rules for the controversial emergency loans (Emergency Liquidity Assistance ELA) to publish. This [...]
Travelodge warns that abuse of levies threatens London’s hotel sector July 29, 2013 Hotel chain Travelodge has warned that the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is putting the capital's hotel sector under threat (release). CIL was introduced by the previous Government with the intention of ensuring financial clarity for developers in a bid to ensure developments make a fair contribution to infrastructure whilst providing an alternative solution or replacement [...]
US manufacturing expansion sees unexpected decline in pace July 29, 2013 The newest figure from the Dallas Fed manufacturing business index shows a fall from 6.5 to 4.4 in July. Economists had been forecasting a rise to 7.3 (release). Texas factory activity continued to expand in July, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state [...]
