Mark Zuckerberg promises to fix Facebook’s social problems January 4, 2018 Mark Zuckerberg has promised to protect Facebook from becoming a forum for fake news and inappropriate government influence this year. Since 2009, the Facebook founder has set himself a personal challenge at the start of each year. Read more: Facebook has ditched its “disputed” flag for fake news. Here’s why And today, he said his [...]
Ollie Phillips: Form and fitness worries mean it’s a really testing time for Eddie Jones and England January 4, 2018 They say that form is temporary, class is permanent and I think the next few weeks and the start of the Six Nations will be the acid test of that statement for England. On paper, England’s side for their opening clash of the tournament against Italy in Rome on 4 February is likely to have [...]
Wealth manager Full Circle has fallen into administration after losing a court battle January 4, 2018 Wealth manager Full Circle Asset Management has slipped into administration, after losing a court battle with a client who was seeking £1.8m in damages. Administrators were appointed at Kent-based Full Circle at the end of December, just weeks after a High Court judge ruled the firm must pay former client David Rocker an as-yet undecided [...]
Revealed: Peel Hunt’s top growth stocks for 2018, from Asos to Just Eat January 4, 2018 Brushing aside the warnings of a stock market bubble ready to burst, which have been flying around in recent weeks, broker Peel Hunt today released its list of top growth stocks for 2018. Based on earnings per share and sales, over the last two years and the next two years’ predictions, Peel Hunt’s selection ranges [...]
Aston Martin unveils its best sales in decade January 4, 2018 More than 5,000 James Bond wannabes got their hands on their dream cars for the first time since the financial crisis last year, Aston Martin said today – as it announced plans to resurrect one of its most iconic models. The luxury marque said today it sold 5,117 vehicles last year, the first time since [...]
Focus On Angel: House prices have almost doubled in this central part of Islington in the last ten years January 4, 2018 Though the name has pious connotations, the Angel is actually named after a pub. Well, the 17th century Angel Inn was a hotel, too, then a restaurant, but is now a Co-Op Bank. Although there is a JD Wetherspoons pub called The Angel next door. As an incredibly central part of the London borough of [...]
A.G. Barr defends reduced sugar Irn Bru recipe after thousands sign petition January 4, 2018 A proper brouhaha has broken out over proposed changes to the recipe of iconic Scottish soft drink Irn Bru. Iconic soft drink Irn Bru has inspired backlash over a proposed change to its recipe. A.G. Barr, the family company which makes the product, is planning to cut sugar content by half in favour of artificial [...]
What is Ripple? The cryptocurrency growing faster than bitcoin explained – and how to buy it January 4, 2018 Ripple has been on a tear over the past few weeks: XRP, the token that powers the blockchain startup’s network, RippleNet, first hit $1 about two weeks ago, and today it climbed to as high as $3.84. While bitcoin, the cryptocurrency king, soared more than 1,200 per cent last year, Ripple rose a whopping 35,000 [...]
Consumer credit growth slows in November as mortgage borrowing declines January 4, 2018 Growth in the amount borrowed by consumers in the form of credit cards and loans fell in November to its lowest since December 2015, as the amount borrowed by home buyers also declined. Figures by the Bank of England showed growth in consumer credit slowed to 9.1 per cent in the year to November, from [...]
Insurers warned catastrophes will be more frequent after being hit by record-breaking $135bn natural disaster bill January 4, 2018 Global insurers were hit by the biggest losses on record during 2017, as a trio of hurricanes and other natural catastrophes cost the sector $135bn (£100bn). Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, together with a devastating earthquake in Mexico took overall natural catastrophe losses to $330bn, meaning 41 per cent of the costs were covered by [...]