Dyer hands QPR fitness boost August 16, 2011 FOOTBALL: QPR insist injury-plagued Kieron Dyer will train again in “days rather than weeks”. Dyer, 32, lasted just five minutes of his debut against Bolton onn Saturday.
O’Brien’s son targets milestone August 16, 2011 RACING: Top trainer Aidan O’Brien’s son Joseph is being tipped to land his first Group One winner today when he rides Await The Dawn in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York. But he faces competition from two Prince Khalid Abdullah-owned horses in Midday and Twice Over.
No8 Jones to captain Wales August 16, 2011 RUGBY UNION: Wales have handed the captain’s armband to No8 Ryan Jones for this weekend’s final World Cup warm-up match against Argentina. Regular skipper Matthew Rees is out of the tournament with a neck problem while current stand-in Sam Warburton is being rested against the Pumas.
City Sup€rtax August 16, 2011 PLANS FOR EUROPE-WIDE LEVY WOULD HIT SQUARE MILE GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel rocked investors last night with a shock commitment to push for a EU-wide financial transactions tax, often known as a Tobin tax. The plans for a Europe-wide levy would knock the Square Mile, threatening to push even more jobs to lower-tax corners of [...]
Sage eyes $1bn Aussie rival August 16, 2011 SAGE is in the running to buy Australian accountancy software company MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) in an increasingly rare example of a UK-based firm attempting to take control of a major foreign asset. It is understood Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) have also placed final bids for the firm, which is expected [...]
Merkozy’s first outing fails to impress August 16, 2011 IT was almost a case of goodbye Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy; welcome Merkozy, the new Franco-German super-politician. Yesterday’s summit was classic Euro-fudge: radical and possibly disastrous proposals camouflaged by the fact that some other, equally disastrous proposals, were rejected. At any other time, the news that France and Germany could harmonise their corporation tax [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 16, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES CITIC ARM TO PRESS AHEAD WITH HK LISTING Citic Securities is to go ahead with a planned Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $2bn for the Beijing-based financial services group. Bankers say that the listing is likely to take place by the beginning of September. The decision comes as many other [...]
BoA to shed real estate assets August 16, 2011 Bank of America is in exclusive talks to sell the bulk of Merrill Lynch’s boom-time real estate investments to Blackstone for up to $1bn (£607m). The sale is still weeks away and would comprise between $800m and $1bn of unwanted property investments in Europe, the US and South America. The sale is part of the [...]
ABN Amro sells private bank arm August 16, 2011 ABN Amro is selling its Swiss private banking operation to Union Bancaire Privee for an undisclosed price. The deal, announced yesterday, will see UBP complete the purchase in the fourth quarter of the year. ABN Amro had €11bn (£9.6bn) in client assets under management at the end of this year’s first quarter. The acquisition will [...]
UK’s inflation springs back again to 4.4pc August 16, 2011 STUBBORN inflation bounced back up in July, official figures revealed yesterday, hitting 4.4 per cent in the consumer price index (CPI) – up from 4.2 per cent in June. Yet despite being forced to write another letter to chancellor George Osborne – explaining why inflation has remained more than one per cent above target for [...]
