Nirav Modi, is the first Indian jeweller to have been featured in the cover of Christie’s and Sotheby’s catalogues. He is the creator and designer of the Golconda Lotus necklace featuring a 12.29-carat Golconda diamond, Pink diamonds and exclusive Ainra cut diamonds sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction in November 2010. In 2012, the…
The Canadian dollar nicknamed Loonie leaps to its highest level in over two years against its US counterpart yesterday, after the country’s central bank raised interest rates to 1 per cent in response to a stronger economy. It is the second time this year that the Bank of Canada (central bank) has upped the rate…
Crypto currency Bitcoin nosedives 11.4 per cent since July 2017 to £ 3, 331.22 ($4, 326.75) and one point the crypto currency was down over 16 per cent, as China’s Central Bank, PBOC declares initial coin offerings and all related fundraising activity to be illegal. Issuing the strongest regulatory challenge so far to the…
Aston Martin is considering plans to list on the London Stock Market, which give fans to buy shares in the prestigious 104-year-old car marker. According to a Bloomberg report they could float as early as next year. The Warwickshire based luxury manufacturer could aim for valuation similar to Ferrari which listed in New York in…
Gold price soared 1 percent to their highest in almost a year yesterday 4th September 2017, in the wake of North Korea’s latest and most powerful nuclear test as investors went elsewhere in search of safe-haven assets including Bitcoin. Spot gold had risen to £1,030.54 ($1, 338.36) per ounce by 07:08 GMT, after touching its…
Laura Shapiro’s book reveals, language of food, using six famous women through the culinary prism eyes of food and cooking including what they ate and reveals their attitudes towards food. William Knight, Philosophy professor, was editing Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries for publication in 1897, and got exasperated with several petty details that popped up in her…
Bitcoin cash (BCH) prices swung wildly in the first full day of trading, ranging between $700 and $1, 300 per coin across a cluster of crypto currency exchanges. The original Bitcoin currency (BTC) was launched as a open-source software in 2009 by anonymous architects who wanted to capitalise on the world’s first decentralised peer-to-peer electronic…
Rolls Royce the FTSE 100n company, which has Airbus and Boeing as its customers delivered a pre-tax profit of £287m in the first six months of 2017 an increase of 150 per cent on the same period last year. Revenue rose 6 per cent to £ 6.87bn which includes currency exchange fluctuations. Trent engines propelled…
” The opportunity of ecommerce in India is immense, and the surface has barely been scratched” according to Kunal Bahl, co-founder of Snapdeal. The breakdown of talks over a sale of Snapdeal to Flipkart, its largest peer – a deal encouraged by SoftBank, Snapdeal’s main investor, but resisted by Mr Bahl. This has in fact…
The Docklands Light Railway, the sixth busiest railway in the UK, turns 30 today. TFL’s latest map of Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is aimed at making the rail link easier to navigate. The new multi-coloured design features several branches between Bank, Tower Gateway and Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal, Beckton and Lewisham. The origins of…