Merkozy fail to agree deal to save euro October 20, 2011 HOPES for a decisive breakthrough on a Eurozone rescue package at this Sunday’s summit collapsed as France and Germany failed to agree on the purpose of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) yesterday. Officials said another summit might be held early next week to continue discussions on private sector involvement in a second Greek bailout, [...]
FTSE hit by fresh Eurozone discord October 20, 2011 BRITAIN’S leading share index was pulled lower by financials yesterday as political discord again hampered efforts to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis, leaving it on course to snap a three-week winning streak. News of stalled talks between France and Germany to forge a “comprehensive” plan to end the crisis ahead of a meeting of regional [...]
Eurozone wrangling sucks life out of markets October 20, 2011 European markets saw confidence ebb away this morning as continuing wrangling over the Eurozone bailout fund took its toll. Optimism had been growing that the weekend meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels would come up with a substantial plan for dealing with the debt crisis, primarily through ramping up the bloc’s bailout mechanism, the [...]
Bank offices raided over Euribor probe October 20, 2011 BANK offices in London and Europe were raided yesterday in a shock move by European authorities investigating whether the institutions fixed the region’s Euribor interbank lending rate. RBS and Deutsche Bank were among the major banks raided, according to informed sources, as offices in London and Paris were targeted by European Commission competition investigators. The [...]
Shares are flat as struggling Mouchel begins asset sell-off October 20, 2011 AILING outsourcing group Mouchel finally got its firesale of assets underway yesterday but the first deal will generate only £3.4m initially. It has agreed to sell its rail business and related assets to Australia’s Sinclair Knight Merz for cash and hopes to claw back a further £2.5m having retained certain assets, such as money owed [...]
Britain’s FTSE gets fillip from debt crisis hope and earnings October 19, 2011 BRITAIN’S leading share index closed higher yesterday, buoyed by financials on fresh speculation of a game-changing response to the Eurozone debt crisis at a weekend meeting of regional leaders. Forecast-beating earnings from the likes of spirits group Diageo also helped drive the move, although concerns about growth continued to come through in other results, for [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 19, 2011 Rockspring Rockspring Property Investment Managers has appointed Hugh Bigham (pictured) as head of capital raising and client services for North America. Bigham joins from the Sydney office of Principle Advisory Services, where he supported real estate and private equity managers. In addition, Julianne Cho joins from Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers as client services representative in [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 18, 2011 Cushman & Wakefield The global property consultant has appointed Michael Lindsay as a partner and head of its EMEA corporate finance team in London. Lindsay was formerly a partner and UK head of corporate finance at KPMG, and director in Citigroup’s real estate and lodging investment banking team. Signia Wealth Etienne de Merlis has been appointed [...]
LIBERTARIAN LEAFLETERS HIT OUT AT ANTI-CAPITALIST PROTESTS October 17, 2011 SNEAKING among the protesters outside St. Paul’s Cathedral over the weekend was a pack of intrepid pro-capitalist activists. Their purpose? To reform and educate the anti-corporate revolutionaries on the beauty of an unimpeded free market. “We distributed more than 100 leaflets to protesters,” ringleader Simon Gibbs told The Capitalist. “One third of protesters, mostly young [...]
Russia’s Evraz to list on LSE October 17, 2011 EVRAZ, the Russian metals and mining group backed by billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich, is moving its domicile to the UK and listing in London as it seeks greater international acceptance and access to capital. Evraz, which mines coal, iron ore and valladium and makes steel industrial goods, yesterday said it wanted to list on the [...]