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The Premier League Is Now A Space ‘Nazi Policy’ Arguments Take Place
A Manchester City fan holds a banner reading “Gary Lineker for Prime Minister” ahead of the English … [+] Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at ...
Berkeley Group Holds FY Earnings Forecasts, Takes “Cautious” Approach
Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images Berkeley Group reaffirmed its full-year profit forecasts on Friday even as the broader housing market continues to cool. ...
Persimmon Shares Tank 11%, Builder Becomes FTSE 100’s Biggest Faller
Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Getty Images Homebuilder Persimmon led the FTSE 100 lower on Wednesday as it released a gloomy trading assessment for the new year At £12.95 per share the company was ...
British VCT Inflows Continue To Surge. Here Are 3 Top Trusts To Consider
Photo Illustration by Karol Serewis/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Investor interest in venture capital trusts (VCTs) continues to soar in the UK. In...
Eternals Was Over Budget Says Marvel
Salma Hayek as Ajak in Eternals. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights … [+] Reserved. Marvel Studios Marvel Studios has revealed that its 2021 movie Eternals was ov...
Spare By Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex — Review
Honest, insightful and often vulnerable, Spare shares Prince Harry’s personal journey from childhood to adulthood and fatherhood © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes “The past is never dead...
The Bank of England is Looking to Build a Digital Pound
The Bank of England, along with the United Kingdom’s Treasury, is exploring the possibility of a digital currency that would purportedly maintain monetary stability in the UK’s economy. In a joi...
U.K.’s FTSE Reaches All-Time High But It’s Still Cheap
Get your cheap U.K. PLC while stocks last at these one-time only prices getty The U.K. market is cheap even as it makes all-time highs. After the pension fund bailout this autumn, up has shot the mark...
The UK Is “Considering” Sending British Fighter Jets to Ukraine -That’s About as Far as It Will Go
Two Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s prepare to arrive at Royal Air Force (RAF) Marham on November 15, … [+] 2014 near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, England. (Photo by Carl...
Disney’s $300 Million Bet To Tempt Back Cinemagoers
Harrison Ford as the eponymous archaeologist in the tank chase scene from Indiana Jones and the Last … [+] Crusade (Photo by Murray Close/Getty Images) Getty Images Ahead of its first quarter ea...
Bahrain Fails In Bid To Claim State Immunity Over Alleged Hacking Of Dissidents
Exterior of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK, the home of the High Court and the Court of … [+] Appeal getty The Bahrain government faces another law suit over the alleged hacking of tw...
The UK will need its CBDC by 2030- The Cryptonomist
The Bank of England and the King’s Treasury recently announced that will most likely need to create the CBDC of UK by 2030. The U.K. Ministry of Finance will initiate the creation of its digital curre...
Make Makes Economies Strong?
‘We Can Do It!’, a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale … [+] among the company’s workers in the war effort. The poster was displayed at Wes...
FTSE 100 Break Out Preempts Bank Of England Surrender To Inflation
The U.K. financial system nearly broke this autumn when rising interest rates created a vicious … [+] circle of margin calls driving the stock market into free fall. getty The U.K. financial sys...
Nuclear Bitcoin Mining Hits Snag as UK Startup Sells Business
A firm that was building out a nuclear energy-powered mining facility in Ohio is the latest victim of tough crypto market conditions. UK-based Lake Parime, a company focused on transforming ener...
UK: crypto regulation coming soon
A press release was published today on the UK government’s official website informing that Britain is drawing up plans for new crypto regulation aimed at protecting consumers. The press release state...
The Fed Is Poised To Hike Interest Rates Again. Is It Enough To Keep Away A Recession?
(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Getty Images Key takeaways The Fed is expected to introduce a 0.25% interest rate hike today, bringing the target up to 4.75% Inflation is already showing signs of...
Warner’s UK Studios Report Record Revenue
Last year’s Batman reboot is one of the blockbusters filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden … [+] (Photo by MEGA/GC Images) GC Images Warner Bros. has revealed that revenue at its Lea...
Rescue Effort For Stricken Yemeni Tanker In Limbo, Despite Lull In Fighting
The FSO Safer tanker moored off the Yemen coast, as seen on June 17, 2020. (Satellite image (c) 2020 … [+] Maxar Technologies) DigitalGlobe/Getty Images Despite a relatively stable security situ...
A World Drowning In Financial Sludge
Sludge, of which the developed countries have and are polluting their economies, has killed growth … [+] by making it less and less possible to get things done. getty The U.K.’s Financial Conduc...
Wooing Midlifers Back To Work? Time To Adapt To The 3rd Quarter
How Much Do You Want Me? getty Companies are scrambling to hire, older workers continue to retire. In the US, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell laments the 3.5 million people missing from the workforce compa...
UK’s crime agency creates new crypto unit
The UK’s National Crime Agency is recruiting a group of law enforcement officers to investigate crypto crimes, after a year where crypto hacks globally totalled $3 billion. As part of the nation...
Boxing Day Footfall Grows In The U.K. But Inflation Still Weighs Heavy
TOPSHOT – Customers queue outside Selfridges department store ahead of the Boxing Day sale in … [+] central London on December 26, 2018. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo credit...
Nearly 28% Of Mainland China Arrivals At Taiwan’s Busiest Airport Test Positive For Covid Sunday
Aircraft on the tarmac at Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan in August. Photographer: … [+] Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Nearly 28% of the 524 passenger arriva...
2023 FTSE Prediction: Another Tough Year
FTSE 100 Financial Times Stock Exchange Index United Kingdom. getty The FTSE is the least stellar market amongst the west bourses and the U.K. is going through a period where it not only has to ride o...
Boris Johnson’s brother resigns as advisor of Binance subsidiary firm
Joseph Edmund Johnson, brother of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, resigned from his advisory role to a subsidiary company of the crypto exchange Binance, the Telegraph reported. Joseph ...
United Kingdom Takes A Stance Against Corruption And Other Crimes
On December 9, 2022, U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced sanctions against several individuals and entities involved in corruption, conflict-related sexual violence and human rights abuses...
Next UK financial regulator calls for tougher crypto rules: FT
Ashley Alder, the UK’s next Financial Conduct Authority chair, had harsh words for crypto platforms as he addressed members of parliament, the Financial Times first reported. Speaking at a cross...
Watches Of Switzerland Shares Sink 7% Despite Strong Luxury Timepiece Sales
American actor Harold Lloyd (1893 – 1971) finds himself in a precarious situation dangling from a … [+] clock in a scene from the film ‘Safety Last!’, 1923. (Photo by American ...
Microsoft Buys The London Stock Exchange (Well, 4% Of It)
(Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways Microsoft will pay almost $2 billion for a 4% share in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). As part of the deal, LSEG will migrate t...