Hartley’s injury worries calmed as Ford urges England to attack October 6, 2014 NORTHAMPTON Saints boss Jim Mallinder has moved to allay fears hooker Dylan Hartley will be the latest England forward to be ruled out of the autumn internationals. A back injury forced Hartley to miss Northampton’s weekend clash with London Irish, although Mallinder expects the 28-year-old to in contention for Saturday’ match with Sale, along with [...]
Ford Fiesta is the UK’s most popular car as sales hit their highest since 2004 October 6, 2014 UK car sales hit a ten-year high in September, with 425,861 new vehicles registered. The figures, released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), show a 5.6 per cent jump on last month, with the most popular car a Ford Fiesta (see chart two). This month's rise means that the number of cars [...]
Wall St tanks on Hong Kong, and Ebola fears – New York Report October 1, 2014 US SHARES yesterday kicked off the first day of the fourth quarter on a sour note, as the first diagnosis of Ebola in a patient in the US spooked investors, and the Russell 2000 index of small caps ended in correction territory. Fears over the civil unrest in Hong Kong added to the poor performance. [...]
Wall St dips on poor data – New York Report September 30, 2014 US SHARES slipped yesterday, dragged down by energy and materials shares as economic data disappointed. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 28.32 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 17,042.9, the S&P 500 lost 5.51 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 1,972.29 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.46 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 4,493.39. Among [...]
Ford forecast lowers stocks – New York Report September 29, 2014 US stocks ended lower yesterday following protests in Hong Kong that added to worries about Chinese growth and after a disappointing forecast from Ford. The S&P consumer discretionary sector, down 0.6 per cent, had the most losses. Ford shares fell 7.5 per cent and the stock was the S&P’s biggest percentage decliner after it lowered [...]
Car review: The Morgan Roadster may be unwieldy, but it’s a joy to ride September 22, 2014 Sometimes life throws you a curve ball – my drive in the Morgan was one. This was no ordinary road-test; no private jet awaited at the Harrods terminal at Stansted, the London Morgan dealership simply arranged for a Roadster to be delivered to my home. The plan then was to drive 400 miles [...]
City Moves for 22 September 2014 | Who’s switching jobs September 21, 2014 Altium The mid market financial advisory group has announced two appointments to its UK debt advisory practice. Simon Chambers (pictured) and Richard Clark both join as managing directors from DC Advisory. Clark has also held roles at Close Brothers, Houlihan Lokey and JP Morgan. Chambers has previously worked at Barclays, and also as an engineer [...]
Love your job and work hard. Avoid these two myths posing as career advice September 17, 2014 Hard work isn’t all, and following your heart may well end in tears. "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life,” Confucius is thought to have said. It’s a rousing thought. But like numerous other seductive one-liners posing as career advice, it hides more than [...]
Central and Waterloo & City line Tube strike driving outraged commuters to buses and Twitter August 22, 2014 Transport for London strikes again. City workers' travel has been thrown off course this morning due to strike action on the Waterloo & City and Central line services. The Waterloo & City line is down throughout the entire day while Central line services have been severely limited and are currently only running between Leytonstone – [...]
It’s official: Why doing good by your employees boosts stock performance August 21, 2014 COMPANIES claim all the time that “people are our greatest asset”, and that they invest in their employees. However, this may simply be marketing spin – instead, the firm’s true objective is to maximise profit. Indeed, traditional approaches to human resource management saw manager-worker relations as a zero-sum game – a pound paid to workers [...]