The green, green grass of home
Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it. THE RELENTLESS passage of time is propelling us further and further into a future that our predecessors
The greenback’s fall from grace
Contributed by Simon Dowling, Director of Close International Asset Management Limited RECENTLY, the value of the US dollar has weakened significantly against the pound, the euro and most other currencies.
U.K.
Britons fear longer pub opening Almost two-thirds of Britons believe extended pub opening hours will make the country a worse place to live. According to a BBC poll, 67 per
A New Year but the same old story
THERE GOES another year and, as I age, each day becomes more precious – that I should be so blessed when such a multitude in the region of the Indian
BANGKOK
Subway crash injures 100 More than 100 people have been injured in a crash on Bangkok’s five-month-old underground railway. An empty train collided with a train carrying 700 passengers at
Another year’s over, a new one’s just begun
AS WE bid farewell to 2004 and welcome in 2005, this article reviews last year’s market performance as well as looking to the future. FTSE The FTSE 100 did not
The generation game
MY CHRISTMAS did not go quite the way it was planned. It should have been very quiet and peaceful, real chill out stuff, with time to sort through mountains of
Call for a Europe-wide swastika ban
GERMAN politicians have called for Nazi symbols to be banned throughout Europe after Prince Harry was pictured wearing a fancy dress outfit with a swastika on the armband to aparty.
Time to look at your pension
THE NEW pensions’ simplification regulations in the UK, which come into force from April 6 2006, are expected to be an enormous boon for Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), exploiting
The power of the elephant
Saturday December 4 For us, December has begun with a run of bad luck caused, we believe, by the gift of a ‘lucky elephant’. The moment the elephant was handed