New York Report: Apple is set to report in busy earnings week July 21, 2013 WALL Street is experiencing its best month since January and looks poised to extend the rally with a deluge of earnings this week, though significant gains may be harder to come by with major indexes at record highs. Eight Dow components and Apple are among the companies that will report in one of the busiest [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 17 July 2013 July 16, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Dell ultimatum as buyout vote looms Michael Dell faces a last-minute ultimatum from some of his company’s biggest shareholders to raise his $24.4bn buyout offer or risk losing his attempt to regain control of PC maker Dell, say people close to the affair. Several large outside shareholders have told Michael Dell and private [...]
MWC special February 27, 2013 For the last four days, tech giants have been unveiling their latest creations. We pick out the very best 1 Firefox OS Mozilla, of Firefox browser fame, launched a smartphone platform. The UK will see its first Firefox handsets from 2014. Price: tbc, mozilla.org 2 Sony Xperia Tablet Z Sony claims its latest tablet is [...]
Profit leaps at GKN February 26, 2013 PROFITS jumped 19 per cent over the full year for car and aeroplane parts maker GKN, as it was boosted by record profit from all four of its divisions. GKN, which includes driveline, powder metallurgy, aerospace and land systems units, this morning posted a pre-tax profit over the year of £497m, up from £417m [...]
Spotify to offer car streaming February 25, 2013 SPOTIFY has inked a deal with Ford that will see the Swedish company’s music streaming service integrated into Ford’s vehicles. The deal is the first of its kind and marks a new area of expansion for Spotify, which has seen rapid growth in users listening on PCs and smartphones in the last few years. Ford’s [...]
The top shows from fashion week February 21, 2013 While New York was a muted affair, British brands embraced colour and everyday decadence in a big way L ONDON FASHION Week is a third of a century old and this season: it showed. There was a maturity and a sense of optimism, both in the way the clothes were presented and in the collections [...]
Worst January since 1990 for EU carmakers February 19, 2013 NEW CAR registrations in the EU collapsed to their lowest January level since 1990 last month, dealing the union’s carmakers a drubbing. Peugeot Citroen, Ford, Fiat, Toyota, Volvo, Suzuki and Mitsubishi suffered double digit falls in sales between already-poor January 2012 and January 2013, figures revealed yesterday, as Europe’s economic troubles clobbered one of its [...]
Car sales rev up as registrations rise for the 11th month in a row February 6, 2013 THE UK’S resurgent car-buying market shows no sign of slipping down a gear in 2013, having recorded its 11th straight month of growth in January. New car registrations jumped 11.5 per cent last month compared to the same time a year earlier, with 143,643 vehicles registered. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), which [...]
Ireland sweat on centre pair February 5, 2013 IRELAND are giving injured centres Gordon D’Arcy and Keith Earls maximum time to prove their fitness for Sunday’s RBS Six Nations visit of England. D’Arcy suffered a dead leg and Earls a shoulder problem during Saturday’s 30-22 victory in Wales, and team manager Mick Kearney admitted both were still recuperating. “Gordon suffered a nasty dead [...]
What the other papers say this morning February 4, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Whitehall departments face big cuts Several government departments will have lost more than £3 in every £10 they once had available for spending, by the time of the next election, according to Financial Times research. SGX in talks over LCH.Clearnet stake SGX, the Singapore stock exchange, is in discussions about taking a stake [...]