Fighting forward: The Black Farmer’s Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones talks sausages, political incorrectness and willpower May 31, 2015 Being an entrepreneur is all about timing. You can have the best-laid plans in the world, a huge amount of skill, but it’s really about catching the zeitgeist.” This is Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones’s opening line to me. After a brief pause, he adds, “life is also all about timing”. This is something the founder of [...]
Mansion tax, shmansion tax: This £24m Notting Hill home sold just before the General Election May 29, 2015 Property types may have been worried about the looming spectre of a mansion tax during the run-up to the General Election – but that concern clearly didn't stretch to one billionaire buyer, who forked out £24m on a house in Notting Hill. An "unmodernised" end-of-terrace home on Kensington Park Gardens, which comes complete with eight [...]
Maximum excitement on FA Cup final May 28, 2015 A THIRD of FA Cup finals at the new Wembley have gone into extra-time. That includes Arsenal’s dramatic victory over Hull City last year and their encounter with Aston Villa tomorrow could well go to the wire too. Sporting Index have a huge range of markets on all aspects of the game, including a selection [...]
Queen’s Speech 2015: Here’s everything that was said about the EU referendum, employment, tax, the Human Rights Act and Scottish devolution May 27, 2015 The EU referendum is on; taxes will be locked in at current levels and strike laws are being reformed. The Queen's Speech has come to an end, and we have been presented with the legislation the government intends to pursue over the coming parliamentary session. While global cooperation, reducing the deficit and sticking to the [...]
These are the most valuable brands in the world: Apple, Google, Microsft and IBM dominate in BrandZ 2015 ranking as tech triumphs May 27, 2015 Apple has overtaken Google as the most valuable brand in the world, reassuming the top spot in an annual ranking in which technology dominates. The value of the Apple brand grew 67 per cent, with an estimated worth of more than $245bn. The stellar performance of Apple over the past year pushed Google into second [...]
Focus on Poplar: There’s good reason it’s getting so popular, you know May 21, 2015 It hasn’t always been so popular to live in Poplar. Its postcode, E14, has held the dubious honour of being the most unequal in the UK, as its East End estates sit a stone’s throw away from the shimmering towers of Canary Wharf. It’s now best known in the nation’s mindset as the impoverished setting [...]
Bank of England minutes: Policymakers vote 9-0 to keep rates on hold May 20, 2015 Minutes from the Bank of England's May meeting have shown little change, with the monetary policy committee again voting 9-0 to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent. Two members felt the decision was "finely balanced", implying they're thinking about reversing their vote. All members agreed interest rates "were more likely than not" to rise over the [...]
London house prices soaring above the rest of the UK with average cost now £498,000 May 19, 2015 House prices in the capital continue to outpace prices in the rest of the UK, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). London house prices were up 11.2 per cent in the year to March 2015, compared to a nationwide average of 9.6 per cent, according to the ONS house price [...]
Hipstergeddon? Etsy share price plummets in after-hours trading as as losses jump May 19, 2015 Shares in newly-floated craft site Etsy fell as much as 15 per cent in after-hours trading after its first results since it listed showed its net loss for the three months to the end of March had risen to $36.6m, from $500,000 during the same period last year. That's enough to put a droop in [...]
Agents bet on UK housing market activity boost after General Election May 17, 2015 Agents are expecting housing market activity to pick up following a decisive outcome to the General Election. “Now the months of uncertainty are finally over, we are already witnessing confidence returning to the market with buyers and sellers in a more informed position to make the decisions they were putting off,” said Andrew Weir [...]