After spending $373m (£211m) on broadband internet provider Easynet, BSkyB will announce its new broadband product in the UK on Tuesday morning. BskyB, which is 38% owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire (as is Fox Network), will announce a new – revamped – service tomorrow which is thought to offer both high speed...
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Apple stock has been floundering since falling significantly off its peak of $86.40 in mid January of this year to a close of $50.16, a significant 42% drop. Well help is on the way. Apple reports its earnings on Wednesday, and these have expected to be off quite significantly. But on Monday, Shaw Wu,...
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With the war in Lebanon still raging, it seems that the market has reached the top for the time being. The market is no longer reacting to the incremental elements of the attacks by Israel on the Lebanon and has eased back. Even though Israeli fighter planes ravaged the Lebanon during the weekend, it...
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Another week another set of contradictory headlines about house prices in the UK market. So who’s it this week and what does it mean – if anything? The real headline should be that Asking Prices for houses have increased in July – now, as we’ve said before, there is a big difference between asking...
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This weekend as governments and markets take stock of the global situation is becoming clear that economies may now be heading for a much harder landing than previously thought. As we outlined in a previous article, the events of the last week may have helped to create an economic version of ‘The Perfect Storm’...
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With news this morning that, as expected, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to 0.25 percent –with the news yesterday that Israel is bombing its northern neighbour – and with the fall out from this weeks bombing in India – could this series of event converge to provide the ‘Perfect Storm’. Concluding its...
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