| | Friday 9 November 2012 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY  The Great 'Wall Street' of China Hello Share Shapers,
China is where the hub of the world economy before too many years have past. I heard it on the radio.
They will overtake the USA as the world's biggest economy and we will all have to rethink they way we buy, sell and hold shares.
At the moment, Wall Street still mightily influences the world's stock markets. Though I have noticed the Footsie is not quite as much pulled about by the Dow Jones index as it used to be. Or is that my imagination.
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Paper round Greece, Merkel, Comet
Eurozone leaders face a new round of brinkmanship over Greece's €174bn bailout after international lenders failed to bridge differences on how to reduce Athens' burgeoning debt levels, pushing the country perilously close to defaulting on a €5bn debt payment due next week. Officials had hoped to finalise the new programme, which extends Greece's rescue two years to 2016, at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Monday. That would free up a long-delayed €31.3bn aid payment desperately sought by Athens. [Financial Times]
Germany's Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned Britain not to turn its back on Europe and urged its Prime Minister David Cameron to work with her to avoid deadlock at European Union budget talks later this month. The leaders met in London to try to iron out differences over the EU's €1 trillion (£800.5bn) budget that threaten to block a deal and fuel fears that London is drifting away from the 27-nation union. Describing plans to increase the EU budget as "ludicrous", Cameron has threatened to veto any deal he thinks is not in Britain's interests and will push for a real-terms freeze. [The Telegraph]
Shop Direct, the home shopping group owned by the Barclay brothers, is considering acquiring the brand and website of the failed electricals retailer, Comet, which is to start closing some stores next week. A host of retailers - including the discounter B&M Bargains, the single price retailer 99p Stores, and the homewares chain Dunelm - are among those looking to buy parcels of Comet's shops on both short and long-term leases from the administrator, Deloitte. The 236-store chain collapsed into administration last week just nine months after it had been acquired by OpCapita, the private investment firm whose chief executive is Henry Jackson, for a token £2. [The Independent]
Oil cartel Opec acknowledged the growing importance of unconventional 'shale' oil reserves for the first time on Thursday - as it cut its oil demand forecasts on fears over eurozone growth. In its annual world oil outlook report, Opec - whose 12 members include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Venezuela - said: "Shale oil represents a large change to the supply picture." While in previous reports "no significant shale oil contribution to liquids supply was envisaged," this year "a rise in the importance of shale oil is expected", Opec said. [The Telegraph]
Pay has risen at a faster rate for Britain's biggest earners than for anyone else over the past 25 years, according to research published yesterday. The top 1 per cent of full-time workers have enjoyed a 117 per cent surge in between 1986 and 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics. The top 10 per cent and bottom 10 per cent received increases of 81 per cent and 47 per cent, respectively. [The Times]
The tax affairs of every Briton with an HSBC bank account in Jersey are being examined by Revenue & Customs after a whistleblower leaked a list of names, addresses and account balances. HMRC officials are trawling through a list of more than 4,000 people based in Britain after it was handed over this week. The list is understood to include serious criminals and celebrities. [The Times]
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BOOK OF THE WEEK  By Nassim Taleb
A book review by Ross Jones The majority of us want to push for more in our lives and it is my belief that without the drive and ambition to succeed in your job, and your everyday life, things would be pretty boring. But that then sparks the question; what makes some people more successful than others? The typical answer would be skill, talent, effort and dedication, but Nassim Taleb suggests it is something altogether more unpredictable. The author of the fantastic The Black Swan argues that success, and even life, is all about luck. Taleb proposes that it is only because we fail to truly grasp the role of probability in our lives that we continue to put our respective successes down to skill and talent, as opposed to chance.
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