Wales must harness power of world’s most expensive player to beat Euro 2016’s most expensive team Belgium June 30, 2016 They have already confounded expectations but in order to beat Belgium and reach the semi-finals of a major competition for the first time in history Wales must achieve they are yet to manage at Euro 2016: avoid defeat against a side with a higher market value. Wales’s historic quarter-final in Lille on Friday pits Euro [...]
Tobacco companies remain an addiction for stock market investors – and Brexit gave them a boost too June 29, 2016 Cigarette companies have been under the cosh for years as Western governments try to stamp out addiction to cancer sticks. But the anti-smoking lobby has failed on one count – to sufficiently dent the fortunes of tobacco companies on the stock market. Despite the battering the UK stock market has taken since Friday’s Brexit announcement, shares [...]
China drives highest global nuclear capacity growth in a quarter-century June 28, 2016 China helped drive nuclear power growth to its highest level in 25 years, according to the International Energy Agency. Speaking at a nuclear conference in Paris, Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, said: "We have never seen such an increase in nuclear capacity addition, mainly driven by China, and also South Korea and Russia." Read more: French economy [...]
Could Brexit help the England football team avoid future Iceland humiliations by limiting foreign players in the Premier League? June 28, 2016 The path has become well worn: England fail at a national tournament, the game's soul-searching begins and proposals for reform are put forward. Limiting the number of foreign players in English football to allow room for home grown talent to prosper has become a favoured option for Football Association chairman Greg Dyke. Last week he responded to Britain's [...]
EU referendum: Depending on your calculations, the UK economy could be smaller than France’s June 27, 2016 The UK economy isn't looking in too fine a shape right about now, with the financial markets reeling in the aftermath of the vote to Leave the European Union. One notion that seems to have gained a bit of traction is that the UK's economy is no longer the world's fifth largest, having been overtaken by [...]
EU referendum: There may have been a record amount of betting on Brexit vote – but is it that impressive? June 23, 2016 The EU referendum has caught the betting world by storm. After the failure of the pollsters at last year's general elections, politics watchers have been broadening their horizons to try to understand who has the edge in the campaign. Of course, the betting markets themselves move in response to opinion polls, but discussions about polling methodology, [...]
Home nations Euro 2016 game between England and Wales last Thursday drove London pub sales nearly 300 per cent June 23, 2016 Pubs turned out to be the true winners of last Thursday's England v Wales Euro 2016 battle, as the match drove trading in London pubs up by almost 300 per cent. Takings across the capital surged 296 per cent during the home nations game, in which England won 2-1, compared to an average of 163 per cent across [...]
Brexit or Bremain, these are the five winners and five losers of the EU referendum campaign June 23, 2016 The polls are open, the politicians have left the stage, and the responsibility for deciding whether Britain remains a member of the EU now rests with the British people. But the referendum has itself thrown up winners and losers. Here are five of each: The Winners The old: Brexit is no country for young men. [...]
EU referendum: Big bets go to Remain, not Brexit, according to William Hill and Ladbrokes June 22, 2016 With just one day to go before EU referendum polls open, the Remain camp is the firm favourite according to the latest odds released today from bookies William Hill and Ladbrokes. William Hill, the UK's largest bookmaker, is now offering odds of 2/9 on the UK voting to stay in Europe, equivalent to an 81 per [...]
Why Britain leaving the EU would push Europe back into crisis June 22, 2016 If the UK votes to leave the EU, it would have significant consequences across the region. Indeed, it would represent a third phase in Europe’s rolling crisis, following the Eurozone crisis and the migration crisis, both of which remain unresolved. Voter disaffection has been rising and the region’s political capital and policy-making capacity have both been run [...]