FOREX ANALYST PICKS November 1, 2011 FOREX STRATEGIST JOHN KICKLIGHTER My pick: Long dollar-Canadian dollar, short sterling-dollar Expertise: Fundamental analysis with risk management Average time frame of trades: 1 day to 1 week We witnessed an incredible swing in risk trends preventing both my sterling-yen and Aussie-dollar setups from triggering. The dollar-Canadian dollar managed to hit the Ca$0.9970 short, but it [...]
Life beyond the web for a new age of daters November 1, 2011 IT’s been a long day and you’re tired. But when you get home you have another job to do: search through thousands of faces for your potential life partner and reply to a half-dozen or so relevant messages from fellow cyber love-seekers. Internet dating is no longer considered weird or sad – roughly 5.2m Brits [...]
BEYOND THE INTERNET | MATCHMAKING THROUGH PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS November 1, 2011 • Shared Tables Society, sharedtables.com Arranges dinners where four single men and four single women meet. Members are invited by existing members: each time you sign up to a dinner or “table” you have to recommend four other singles. Attracts a high-calibre, international crowd of late-20s, early 30s professionals. Website is truly “cool”. Upsides: Almost [...]
The Q3: Audi’s likeable compact SUV November 1, 2011 INTERNALLY, Audi calls it “the product firework”. With 12 new models introduced in the last five years and seven more planned for introduction by 2015, it seems the Four Rings can do no wrong. The Ingolstadt manufacturer seems to have an almost alchemic ability to find success in whatever niche it enters. But it is [...]
CAR TALK November 1, 2011 FORD’S YOUNG-DRIVER PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY Ford has introduced technology which helps parents to prevent young drivers from receiving calls while driving. The feature, which is part of Ford’s MyKey technology, is called “Do Not Disturb” and blocks incoming phone calls or text messages from a Bluetooth-paired mobile phone. Calls are diverted to voicemail and text messages [...]
St Paul’s suspends legal action against protesters November 1, 2011 St Paul’s Cathedral is suspending its legal action against a protest camp outside the church. A cathedral spokesman said it intended to “engage directly and constructively” with the protesters “without the threat of forcible eviction”. The City of London Corporation has said it plans to issue eviction letters to the protesters. Occupy London Stock Exchange [...]
Greek referendum bombshell hits markets November 1, 2011 Markets were plunged into renewed gloom today as Greece sent shockwaves through the Eurozone by announcing that it would hold a referendum on the bloc’s action plan to tackle the debt crisis. The renewed uncertainty hit banks while commodities were also dented by disappointing manufacturing data out of China. Meanwhile the Office for National Statistics [...]
GDP rises to 0.5 per cent November 1, 2011 Gross domestic product grew by 0.5 per cent on the quarter as business services and finance posted the strongest quarterly increase in four years, according to the Office for National Statistics. However, the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey released earlier showed that manufacturers saw the sharpest monthly rate of decline since June 2009 in October. [...]
Stagecoach in lift from rail ticket sales November 1, 2011 Stagecoach Group PLC said ticket sales across its bus and rail operations rose in the first half of its financial year and that it expects to meet its profit expectations for the full-year. Like-for-like revenue at Stagecoach’s UK rail business, which includes London commuter franchise South West Trains, grew 8.7 per cent in the 24 [...]
