UK focus on ECB meeting outcome September 2, 2012 THURSDAY will be the highlight of the week for economists, with all eyes on results of the European Central Bank policy meeting. While the market waits to hear the latest plans to fix the Eurozone’s debt problem, the Bank of England will also be announcing its latest interest rate decision and asset purchase plan. However, [...]
BT to sell stake in Indian tech firm August 29, 2012 BT is to sell about five per cent of Indian IT service provider Tech Mahindra for about $100m (£63m), two sources with direct knowledge of the situation said yesterday. The UK telecoms company is selling Tech Mahindra shares in the price band of 735 rupees (£8.3) to 790 rupees each, the sources said, a discount [...]
Paralympics visit Tottenham August 28, 2012 THE Paralympics 2012 officially kick off today, and the Dutch seven-a-side football team were having a warm up game yesterday. Not at the Olympic Park, but on another newly created pitch in Tottenham. The team was playing to mark the launch of Cruyff Court, a state-of-the-art games area at the Ferry Lane Estates that has [...]
The financial sector is vital to unlocking Britain’s potential for growth August 19, 2012 AFTER an incredible couple of weeks for the UK, the first leg of London 2012 has drawn to a close. It has shown the very best of Britain, with athletes from over 200 countries coming to demonstrate their excellence. Team GB excelled, just as Britain excels in business. There’s an old joke that the British [...]
Strike appose August 15, 2012 ■ CHICFEED If you love fashion blogs but find it hard to keep track of the many hundreds of thousands out there then chicfeed is the app for you. This gathers together the top fashion blogs from the likes of The Sartoralist, Face Hunter and Cherry Blossom Girl and collates them all into one feed. [...]
Don’t fret: it’s not long until City A.M.’s own Olympics August 13, 2012 FOR many, yesterday was like the hangover one suffers after an excessive night out. The Games are over, the post-Games post mortem has begun. The arguments are many. How do we inspire children to take up more sport? What will happen to the Olympic Park once the Paralympics Games finish in a few weeks’ time? [...]
Goldman Sachs is the Olympic champion in prediction game August 13, 2012 MOST of us spent the last two weeks being constantly surprised by the record-breaking performances of Team GB athletes at the Olympics. But The Capitalist would like to award its own gold medal to two men who fully expected this – Goldman Sachs analysts José Ursúa and Kamakshya Trivedi. Last month the two men used [...]
Success and failure: The line is very fine August 12, 2012 THE road to success is not only long and winding, but it can also be rather rocky. There are always obstacles to trip you up along the way – and many are outside of your control. Consider the example of London businesses selling bicycles. When the Mayor of London launched his eponymous Boris bikes with [...]
For the love of the Games: London’s Olympics heroes August 8, 2012 THE country’s heroic athletes may have grabbed all the headlines, but they are far from the only Britons to have risen to the challenge of making the London 2012 Olympics such an overwhelming, mood-boosting success. There is another group of people, which has brought every bit as much sunshine into the lives of Londoners, and [...]
London Olympics 2012: Now is the time for sport to take centre stage July 26, 2012 WHAT persuades a normally rational person to part with hard-earned cash to watch Turkey play Angola in the preliminary stages of a women’s basketball tournament? With apologies to the female basketball players of said countries, and the otherwise right-thinking friend of mine in question, it can only be the excitement of a home Olympics. It’s [...]