USA Thrash and Rolls in Second Half

All around her the last five months, everything has been about celebrating — from winning an elusive World Cup in Canada in July, to saying farewell to teammates who helped the United States women’s national soccer team attain unmatched success.

But for Christen Press, she hasn’t been in too much of a joyous mood. Spending more time watching than playing in games tends to do that. But given an opportunity to show what she can do, the 5-foot-7 forward made the most of the chance.

Press scored three second-half goals as the Americans surged over the final 45 minutes en route to drubbing Trinidad & Tobago 6-0 in an exhibition on Thursday before 10,690 at the Alamodome. The U.S. improved to 6-0-1 through seven legs of a nine-game “victory tour.”

“Overall, I was very pleased with the performance,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said after the Americans improved to 9-0 all-time against Trinidad & Tobago. “I thought we played very well in the first half; just a little bit unlucky in the finishing.”

The U.S. had no trouble finding the back of the net in the second half, erupting for five goals. Press led the charge, scoring a goal a minute after subbing in for Alex Morgan and three times in 24 minutes. It was her second hat trick during the “victory tour.”

“Every single time that you step on the field — at least for me — I dream it’s going to be three goals, and everything that I touch is going to go in the back of the net,” Press said. “Do you really think it’s going to happen? No. But you always dream that.”

Press’ dream quickly turned to reality — and all it took was some playing time. She hadn’t played during the “victory tour” since scoring a goal during the Americans’ 5-0 win over Haiti on Sept. 17 in Haiti.

“It’s huge for me,” Press said of her performance. “Just coming off the World Cup, my mindset is every second I’m on the field, I have to take advantage of it. We’re not all going to have that many opportunities, so when we do have a chance, you have to get out there and show what we can do. As an athlete, your career goes in waves, and it’s about riding the waves, and it’s about making the low ones as short as possible. I think that’s where I am right now. I’m in a low, and I want to go back up, and I want to be able to get back out there and help the team anyway I can.”

With Abby Wambach, Shannon Boxx, Lauren Holiday and Lori Chalupny retiring this year, and Megan Rapinoe sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury, Ellis wanted to use Thursday’s contest as a way to get a glimpse of what players might help fill those vacancies. Wambach, the world’s most prolific scorer with 184 goals, came on as a second-half substitution and played the final 15 minutes.

Ellis‘ got her wish as the future faces of U.S. soccer got to showcase themselves. Lindsey Horan scored one goal and assisted on two others, Stephanie McCaffrey had an assist, and Crystal Dunn, Emily Sonnett and Jaelene Hinkle provided strong glimpses.

But it was the old guard that helped propelled the Americans to victory. Carli Lloyd tallied the game-winner in the 21st minute when she converted a penalty kick after Morgan was was fouled inside the penalty area by Trinidad & Tobago goalkeeper Kimika Forbes. It was Lloyd’s ninth goal in seven games during the “victory tour,” continuing her strong play from last summer’s World Cup in Canada when she won the Golden Ball as the tournament’s top player.

Morgan scored in the 52nd minute off a pass from Horan, while Lloyd and Ali Krieger each contributed assists.

Floods Hit towns Again As waterway Bursts Banks

Occupants in the Lake District say they are "devastated" as endeavors to tidy up Glen ridding are frustrated.

A stream has burst its banks in the town of Glenridding in the Lake District, with occupants encouraged to stay inside for their security. A "multi-office" reaction, which incorporates the military and flame administration, is under route as it is dreaded the most recent flooding could jeopardize lives. 

Cumbria Police said: "We are likewise cautioning any drivers not to drive unless it is an outright crisis as the surge water can bring about an incredible danger to individuals' security. "We need to ask general society not to approach or go close to any surge water as it is to a great degree quick streaming and can be a danger to individuals' lives."

£50m Relief Fund To Help Flood Victims

The military has been sent to the Cumbrian village to help deliver food and water.

Ken Pollock, a guesthouse proprietor in the town, told Sky News: "It (the surge water) is higher than it was already. "It was back to typical and after that it began again today. Everybody was assisting, they got everything tidied up and washed out." Gary Wilson, chief of The Inn on the Lake, said individuals are "crushed", having begun to "get on top" of the tidy up operation.

He said there had been "exuberant" downpour, with numerous homes and shops under two feet of water. Mr Wilson, whose business was unaffected, has set up a crisis room where local people can have hot beverages and showers. Cumbria County Council has said the harm from the weekend's flooding was on a scale never seen, with the circumstance changing constantly.

A huge number of huge amounts of trash fell on to streets, carriageways and spans in avalanches. Figures from a downpour gage at Honister in the Lake District demonstrated a UK record 341mm of downpour fell in 24 hours at the weekend. The normal precipitation in Cumbria for December is 146.1mm, as per the Met Office.

Residents are being advised to stay careful, however the downpour is required to move south from surge hit zones. The Government has promised £51m for homes and organizations influenced by the surges. Chancellor George Osborne said families will have the capacity to claim up to £5,000 each to manage the damage.

Cut 220 jobs at United Kingdom in Maersk Oil

The oil and gas organization Maersk Oil has affirmed it is to cut around 220 occupations in the UK. The Danish administrator said it was decreasing its workforce by somewhere around 10% and 12% comprehensively as a feature of a drive to cut working expenses by 20% before the end of 2016. 

The UK occupations are connected to the retirement of the North Sea Janice oil establishment and changes to seaward pivots. Maersk Oil said the move took after a "broad inside survey of business exercises and proceeded with low oil costs". 

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It brings the aggregate number of positions cut from the association amid 2015 to around 1,250. 

Jakob Thomasen, the Maersk Oil CEO, said: "These are troublesome choices for any business and my quick concern is for the welfare of those influenced straightforwardly by today's news. 

"We are working in a really changed oil value environment and have taken vital choices to diminish movement levels through 2015 and guarantee we center where we can see sufficient comes back from our most hearty ventures." 

He included: "This methodology has seen us authorize super activities like Johan Sverdrup and Culzean amid the year. We stay concentrated on longer-term development opportunities, which play to our specialized qualities, and the proceeded with security of every one of our kin and resources."

By : Samuel Nathan kahn

Foxtons and Travis Perkins shares fall amid housing market fears

By Samuel Nathan Kahn 

Offers in Foxtons and Travis Perkins have been hit after the organizations raised reasons for alarm over the quality of the lodging business sector. Foxtons, the south-east-engaged domain operators, cautioned that the business sector was setting aside time to recoup, particularly in focal London, where property exchange levels stay at truly low levels inferable from solid late value development and stamp-obligation changes. Scratch Budden, the CEO, said: "We expect any recuperation of the property deals business sector to be ease back because of low current levels of stock." 

Despite the fact that he said Foxtons remained extensively on track to meet entire year desires, the shares still shut down more than 8%, at 203p. Changes to stamp obligation, presented by the chancellor, George Osborne, imply that despite the fact that the larger part of homebuyers will pay less in stamp obligation, purchasers of homes costing more than £937,500 now pay all the more, hitting the prime London market. In any case, Foxtons included that business commissions were up 12.8% to £18.5m, reflecting additions in piece of the overall industry and new branch openings. The chain said in the year to date it opened seven branches, concentrating on high-development territories in external London. It said it stayed on track to open somewhere around five and 10 branches every year, and had a pipeline of new locales secured for the following year and a half. Budden said: "We are in an in number position to profit by business sector development as of now being seen in external London zones through the natural extension of our branch system." Travis Perkins, the FTSE 100 building supplies firm that possesses the Wickes DIY chain, shut down 6% at £18.45 after it cautioned that hidden income development for the year would come in at the lower end of desires. 

The CEO, John Carter, said: "While we got ready for a humble lessening in redesign modernize and change markets through the mid year, given the log jam in optional lodging exchanges towards the end of 2014 and early piece of 2015, we saw weaker business sector request than foreseen." Is Foxtons the domain operators London merits? Perused more A benefits cautioning from the protection expert, SIG, added to the vulnerability over the viewpoint for the lodging business sector. The organization said issues in the UK and France implied benefits would be in the middle of £85m and £90m instead of the £100m experts had anticipated. It said economic situations were decaying in the second half, especially in France. SIG has additionally been influenced by a lower than foreseen level of interest in the UK redesigns market. 

The organization's offer cost finished the day at 141.5p, down more than 20%. House costs have been ascending at around 5% in the UK, with a few territories recording increments of twice that. Then again, Thursday's notices added to expects that the rate of expansion was unsustainable. A week ago, the autonomous research firm Capital Economics cautioned: "The greater part of the confirmation proposes that costs have turned out to be worryingly subject to record low levels of loan fees. So a period in which costs develop in accordance with, or ideally by not as much as, salaries now looks late. We anticipate that house costs will ascend by 5% this year, however by only 2% in both 2016.

6 of Top 10 Global Commercial Markets for Investment Intensity are in Europe

Samuel Nathan Kahn:  According to JLL's latest City Investment Intensity Index, European cities are leading the way when it comes to pulling in more direct real estate investment in comparison to their economic size.

In the global study, six of the top ten cities for investment intensity are European, with Nordic and German business centers performing particularly well. 

Of these six European cities, London, the world's most liquid and transparent real estate market, has maintained its position at the top of the Index for the last three quarters, whilst Munich comes 2nd , Oslo 4th, Frankfurt 7th, Copenhagen 8th and Stockholm 9th.

Vibrant and with strong technology credentials, the European cities leading the Index also share the qualities of being transparent and scalable with a good quality of life, factors which are increasingly being incorporated into investment strategies.  

Frank Porschke, Managing Director of JLL Germany comments, "Munich and Frankfurt have strong records of innovation and sustainability, which together with healthy economic growth and job creation provides a significant competitive advantage and is helping them attract inward investment. Frankfurt is Germany's top cross-border investment market and the 3rd most popular destination for foreign capital in Europe."

"Despite the Nordic countries' close cultural and economic ties, their real estate markets vary. Nordic countries attract a large number of international investors and register very high transaction volumes due to their healthy economies and great liquidity.  Yield levels have reached an all-time low in the prime CBD areas which have driven investors to secondary markets.  The differences in yield levels between prime and secondary products are therefore declining.  The Nordics will most certainly continue to be one of the most stable and popular markets to invest in in the future", says Daniel Gorosch, Managing Director JLL Sweden. 

The Predominant View of Businesses Both in Financial and Economy Sector

It is a significant privilege for me to follow in the progressions of Sir Win Bischoff. I was enchanted to be requested that be his successor, not minimum in light of the fact that I have seen TheCityUK get into its step as of late under his general direction, and through the solid administration - first of Stuart Popham and now of Sir Gerry Grimstone. It is an exceptionally awesome individual joy to be working againth various old companions on the Advisory Council!

Getting The City UK making a go at amid late years - much appreciated, it must be said, to the activity of Alistair Darling and the vision of Win Bischoff - more likely than not had a craving for propelling a boat amidst a sea tempest. Yet, by any benchmarks the dispatch was a win and the boat is cruising to a great degree well despite the fact that the oceans stay turbulent. TheCityUK has built up its believability under the fiery administration of Chris Cummings and is doing what it was planned to do: presenting the defense for a dynamic, powerful and fruitful monetary and expert administrations division, as crucial to the genuine's well being economy of the UK, to its equalization of installments and to the British mark globally. Its work streams - just to indicate three critical cases - on the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, on Islamic money and on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – demonstrate the significance of its commitment to supported accomplishment in London's key part on the world stage.

My fundamental subject today, however, is unavoidably the topic of Britain's part in Europe, and the part the budgetary administrations segment can and must play in the level headed discussion about that part. This inquiry of Britain's enrollment of the EU is doubtlessly the most deliberately basic one confronting us (and without a doubt whatever remains of Europe) throughout the following three years or something like that.

Furthermore, we should be clear about the transcendent perspective of organizations - both in the money related area and all the more by and large in the economy. Research by TheCityUK, and many surveys of organizations by others, demonstrate the same thing: a conviction that Britain has a place in a changed Europe. This is not a philosophical or sentimental connection, but rather a basic sober mindedness, construct not minimum in light of the perspective that the choices frequently proposed are loaded with genuine trouble and hazard.

We all realize that the EU is not functioning admirably. The full acknowledgment of Europe's social and monetary potential has been profoundly impeded by the budgetary emergency and lost worldwide intensity. Development has been unsatisfactorily moderate and unemployment, especially of the youthful, is a noteworthy social issue all through a significant part of the EU. So in the event that we say that Britain's place is in the EU, we require in the following breath to state that change is fundamental if the EU is to be fruitful in meeting these difficulties and securing future financial thriving for every one of its kin.

In the prompt result of the monetary and financial emergency, the EU rightly centered around balancing out the money related framework. Much has been done in the course of recent years to set up the administrative structure important for a more grounded and more steady framework, which is obviously in light of a legitimate concern for every part state. In any case, amid the new order, the administrative structural engineering that has been placed set up will require significant refinement to guarantee it attempts to empower, as opposed to repress, manageable financial development. It is of foremost significance to get the parity directly in the middle of development and solidness.

It is additionally crucial for the EU to confront outwards and perceive the staggering significance of adaptability and intensity in the worldwide commercial center in the event that we are to maintain a strategic distance from underestimation. We consequently firmly welcome the accentuation on occupations and development, subsidiarity and better regulation, and in addition the more reasonable and focussed appropriation of Commission parts that has been placed set up by President Juncker.

Most importantly, this implies driving the usage of a more extensive and more profound Single Market. For it is the Single Market which both supports the economy of each Member State and can empower the EU's desire for intensity, speculation, occupations and development to be figured it out.

What's more, in accomplishing a Single Market which is focused and completely drawn in with whatever is left of the world, we trust that the budgetary and expert administrations have an indispensable part to play. They are vital in empowering speculation and encouraging development in the more extensive economy.

Specifically, the improvement of an incorporated and dynamic capital business sector over the EU is of basic significance. In sharp differentiation to the US, the EU economy by and large has been overdependent on bank financing for business speculation and development. The part of banks in giving to people and SMEs has thusly definitely been a noteworthy center of concern: however in the emergency's wake, bank deleveraging and the movement toward more stringent capital prerequisites have compelled - and will presumably keep on obliging - the accessibility of bank account, particularly for little organizations.

In any case, there are numerous different courses in which a solid and expansive based monetary administrations industry can give the bolster crucial to organizations in the more extensive economy to develop. In the new environment of harder administrative parameters for the banks, it is all the more indispensable that capital business sector financing arrangements are legitimately created as powerful channels of credit and speculation close by conventional bank fund.

Given this environment, the new Commission's technique for a Capital Market Union - or single capital business sector in Europe - is exceptionally noteworthy and we emphatically welcome it. The proposition offers the possibility of opening up wellsprings of non-bank money for Europe's SMEs and new businesses that will empower the organizations, in which most Europeans are utilized to wind up more beneficial, develop their business sectors and utilize more specialists. Specifically, it offers the possibility of better backing and support of new businesses that can get to be game changers in the advanced economy.

Capital markets are as of now living up to expectations sensibly well for extensive partnerships. Be that as it may, we require a solitary capital business sector which gives Europe's SMEs and new businesses vastly improved access to holy messenger account, investment, private positions and securitization (counting innovation empowered money, for example, shared loaning and group financing), together with a dynamic IPO market. What's more, the City as Europe's monetary focus has a focal part to play in working with the powers both in Brussels and in the part states to accomplish such a solitary capital business sector. London's capital business sector is a European resource that advantages the entire EU.

The Single's significance Market all in all and of a capital business sector union specifically is great to the point that the administration of the Euro zone should not be permitted to undermine it. An in number and stable Euro zone is in light of a legitimate concern for every Member State. Yet, the rule of non-separation between Member States must be connected thoroughly to money related administrations, with the goal that capital streams, exchanging venues and clearing houses are not deterred or hindered. We trust that the vital strategy attachment ought to be fortified by a procurement that non-euro zone Member States ought to have lasting spectator game plans at Euro group gatherings.

Besides, in light of the fact that the Single Market is so crucial to the EU's future, we likewise trust that further institutional change is required – especially in the European Council - to guarantee managed political duty to and concentrate on the Single Market. We in this way think there is a case for a lasting seat of the Single Market in Council - and in addition of the Euro group. These two developments will most likely set aside time to execute formally since they would require bargain changes: by the by, we trust that moves in this bearing would be in light of a legitimate concern for the EU all in all. What's more, in any occasion, the Council ought to meet in Single Market organization (supplanting the diffuse and generally ineffectual Competitiveness Council arrangement), to bring maintained spotlight on single business sector issues, in the way that the Trade Council configuration accomplishes for exchange approach.

The UK is not the only one in requiring a changed EU: other Member States have delivered change proposition and it is in light of a legitimate concern for every Member State that the EU ought to work better. There is a prepared hunger for dialog on change, and it is clear that whatever is left of the EU needs the British to be completely occupied with the crusade for change.

So what could possibly be done? For Britain, the answer arrives in a straightforward expression: more grounded and more valuable engagement. It is sufficiently bad to yell from the sidelines and regard Europe as something that does unwelcome things to us. It is sufficiently bad to regard Brussels regulation as naturally undesirable, or to advance requests just on the premise of British exceptionalism. The EU needs change - radical change - in light of a legitimate concern for the EU in general - which is to our greatest advantage.

What's more, this is a message to us and in addition to government. Business needs to help government by stressing so as to affect the general population wrangle about - for instance the single's estimation business sector in labor and additionally in capital, products and administrations. Also, specifically, we in the City need to up our amusement. For a few years, the City Corporation has looked to connect with EU assessment formers through its Brussels office. The City UK has assumed an inexorably critical part through authorizing and distributed definitive exploration. It is additionally building up a genius dynamic dialog with partners in other part states - in France, in Italy, in Ireland, and we would like to begin comparative dialogs in Germany and the Netherlands soon.

However, more must be finished. We should be more unmistakable and strong in Brussels in connecting with the Commission as well as with the undeniably powerful Parliament. At present, the individual parts of The City UK and the City of London Corporation are confounding to numerous, both in Brussels and inside of the monetary group. 

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Ready for a Big Comeback by this Resilient Commodity

For some financial specialists, 2013 should be the year that silver recaptured its gloss. Most financial analysts thought silver would move as a support against expansion and be a downgraded dollar on the heels of proceeded with monetary turmoil. Alternately, accepting the monetary bounce back was going all out, it would develop because of modern interest for everything from sun oriented boards to gadgets, batteries to the car business. Oddly, none of that happened. Silver advantages by being both a valuable metal and a modern metal. As a modern metal, financial specialists need to really see enough monetary development before they can ride that fleeting trend. As a valuable metal, silver is being taken curious to see what happens by financial specialists escaping gold.

Truth be told, silver is being dealt with more like a valuable metal than a mechanical one nowadays. The accompanying graph demonstrates that silver, over a 50-day period, imparts a 0.98 connection coefficient to gold (a 1.00 result would mean the two move in flawless stride with one another). Rather than being the 2013 star of the valuable metals group, silver has transformed into the pooch. Exchanging close $19.70 an ounce, silver has lost more than 35% of its worth since the year's start (and on track for its most exceedingly terrible execution in very nearly 30 years). Gold, then again, has dropped only 25%, while platinum is down around 13%.

Be that as it may, for contrarian financial specialists, silver has never lost its sparkle—its part as a place of refuge hasn't generally changed. The U.S. economy keeps on being delicate. Unemployment is drifting at 7.5%, first-quarter (GDP) development came in well underneath desires, home estimations are still 25% beneath their pre-business sector accident levels, wages are stagnant, and the quantity of Americans depending on nourishment stamps is at record levels. On top of that, the euro zone keeps on being stuck in an unfortunate situation with Portugal surfacing as the most recent casualty, China's economy is slowing down, and worldwide bailouts are still set up.

Despite silver's withdraw, the fixings' majority for a rally are still set—an actuality that has not been lost on the normal American speculator. As per the U.S. Mint, amid the first 50% of 2012, it sold around 17.37 million one-ounce American Eagle silver coins. Amid the same period in 2013, it sold 25.0 million Eagles—a year-over-year increment of 43.9%. Truth be told, the U.S. Mint is foreseeing that its gold and silver coin deals could achieve record numbers in 2013. (Source: "2013 American Eagle Bullion/Sales Figures," U.S. Mint site, July 4, 2013.)

Financial specialists who have been watching silver for various years realize that the valuable metal can bob back. In March 2008, silver was exchanging close $21.00 an ounce, and by October, it had fallen 60% to around $8.40; on the other hand, by April 2011, it had skiped back, taking off more than 400%. Interestingly, on the off chance that you take a gander at silver's long haul pattern going back to 2002, you'll see that it at present is nearing its bolster level.

By: Samuel Nathan Kahn