Villa left stunned as Pulis inspires late Stoke show September 13, 2010 STOKE CITY (2) vs ASTON VILLA(1) WINGER Matthew Etherington admitted the shock appearance of boss Tony Pulis at half-time inspired Stoke to a dramatic late comeback. Pulis, inset, was expected to miss the game following the death of his mother but made a surprise appearance just after the restart to rejuvenate a Potters side looking [...]
STARS TURN A HAND TO WHEELER DEALING AT BGC’S CHARITY DAY September 13, 2010 TRIUMPH in the face of adversity yesterday at the Canary Wharf offices of inter-dealer broker BGC Partners, as fate chose the firm’s annual charity day to bestow upon it an inopportune instance of telecommunications failure. Half of BGC’s poor brokers battled for the entire day with faulty phones, with the system swapping calls between the [...]
FIT IN THE CITY September 13, 2010 IF you’re struggling to get your exercise mojo back after a lazy summer, why not try out a new class? I’ve picked four of the best the city has to offer this autumn, that promise to get you great results minus the workout boredom. Beautcamp Pilates: Everyone who tries this class always goes back for [...]
Still ahead of the curve: Art Laffer rises as Obama hits America’s rich September 12, 2010 WE SPEAK across the gleaming sweep of a boardroom table. Arthur Laffer has grabbed time for an interview while visiting CQS, a hedge fund. He is 70 this year, and the man who transformed the case for lower taxes with one sketch is in demand on this rare visit from the US. Today Laffer has [...]
WestLB sale due to start this month September 8, 2010 THE starting gun for the sale of German landesbank WestLB’s has to sound by the end of this month, the new finance minister of its home state of Northern Rhine-Westphalia said yesterday. The new state government is hoping to find a buyer among rival landesbanks, finance minister Norbert Walter-Borjans said. The bank has to be [...]
Land Secs says City shopping site all but full September 6, 2010 LAND Securities has managed to secure tenants for 96 per cent of its retail space in the One New Change shopping centre on Cheapside, over a month before the firm expects construction to end. The property developer said yesterday it is in talks over the remaining handful of units, which include the two rooftop cafes [...]
Suits’ fave spot for a helping of glam September 6, 2010 Aqua Nueva Fifth Floor, 30 Argyll Street, W1B 3BR Tel: 020 7478 0540, www.aqua.com.hk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £50 LONDON’s love affair with the shamelessly glam has been hotting up for several years and Aqua Nueva, the Spanish side of a double rooftop restaurant off Regent Street, fits the bill perfectly. [...]
How AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes shrugged off the global recession September 5, 2010 IF Tony Fernandes, the chief executive of pioneering low-cost carrier AirAsia, ever suffered from shyness as child, he is certainly cured of it now. The UK-educated Malaysian entrepreneur, who founded the short haul airline in 2001 and its longhaul sister AirAsia X six years later, dominates the meeting room of his West End PR agency [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]
BLANK GETS READY FOR TRIP BACK TO LLOYDS September 2, 2010 SIR Victor Blank, who quit Lloyds Banking Group last year in the aftermath of its controversial merger with HBOS, is returning in a few days’ time for a happy occasion. Blank is there as the guest of current chairman Sir Wyn Bischoff who is hosting an unveiling ceremony of a portrait of his predecessor in [...]