Rivals Hintze and Odey rise despite gloom November 7, 2011 BIG name managers such as Crispin Odey and Michael Hintze have bucked the autumn gloom in hedge funds by making gains amid hopes Eurozone leaders are finally tackling the debt crisis. Odey Asset Management, one of Europe’s biggest hedge fund firms, saw its European fund, run by founder Crispin Odey, gain 9.1 per cent in October, [...]
Sale is a sensible move but it’s time to break out the cava, not champagne November 7, 2011 CARPHONE took the rough with the smooth yesterday, cashing in on one success while taking the failure of another on the chin. The US sale crystallises value for Carphone shareholders – who are in for a payday – but the deal is not spectacular in and of itself. Best Buy has factored in an expected [...]
Greek affairs so labyrinthine even Theseus would struggle November 6, 2011 INVESTORS and traders alike spent most of last week dazed and confused. Equity, bond, commodity and FX markets swung around wildly as they responded to headline news out of Greece and G20. There was no time available for detailed analysis, and even Theseus would have struggled to navigate the labyrinth that is Greek politics. While [...]
It’s not just the Eurozone: A trade crisis is growing. The G20 must show leadership November 1, 2011 THE crisis spawned in 2007 has in many ways come to resemble Hydra – the mythical many-headed serpent of Ancient Greece, which grew two new heads every time one was cut off – already last Wednesday’s Brussels Summit shows no sign of marking a true turning point for the Eurozone. And while the euro-crisis commands [...]
Chinese manufacturing held back by weak US and Europe November 1, 2011 China’s big manufacturers ran at their slowest pace in October since early 2009, purchasing managers’ data shows, though signs of a bounce-back at smaller firms and a sharp fall in factory-gate prices suggest no swift change to interest rates. China’s official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 50.4 in October from 51.2 in September, countering [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 31, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES SHARE PRICE VOLATILITY CARRIES A HEART RISK FOR MARKET WATCHERS Sharp moves in stock markets are closely correlated with a rise in heart attacks, according to a new analysis of studies in the US and China. Two recent academic articles have found a link between equity trends and coronary heart disease, suggesting that [...]
Look beyond Chinatown for the hottest regional food October 31, 2011 CHINATOWN should be worried. Just beyond its main artery, Gerrard Street, lies a triumvirate of restaurants muscling in on its territory with militantly spicy dishes and brazen authenticity. When they arrived in Soho, Bar Shu, Baozi Inn and Ba Shan were a celebration of flavours from the Sichuanese province of China in gorgeous lanterned settings [...]
Bullish October shows that investors were not spooked October 30, 2011 OCTOBER has a reputation for being a troublesome month for financial markets, and memories of the 1987 crash still linger. So stock market bulls have been cheered by the four-week rally, although there are fears that fresh buyers are reluctant to step in at current elevated levels. This week brings a string of important economic [...]
Why the euphoria was not justified October 27, 2011 MARKETS are hugely preferable to central planning – but sometimes capitalism’s finest get it spectacularly wrong. Yesterday’s deluded jump in stock prices – the FTSE is now back up to 5,713.82 – was a gross over-reaction to the Eurozone’s deal. A sigh of relief that the outcome wasn’t worse would have been understandable; but there [...]
€UROFUDG€ October 26, 2011 EUROZONE leaders once again put off finding a decisive remedy to the region’s debt turmoil last night, producing little but rhetoric on the most pressing problems in a crisis that threatens to throw the world into a new recession. After more than a week of delays, the summit of 17 euro nations produced merely the [...]