Sea of green as Bitcoin retakes $20k while Ethereum and Cardano see 14% rises October 26, 2022 The price of Bitcoin hit $20,000 for the first time since June this year, an increase of more than 5% over 24 hours and 6.15% in the last week.
Letters: Not another carte blanche October 26, 2022 [Re: A blank cheque for two years of capped energy prices was a perverse kind of plan, yesterday] In response to Jonathan Maxwell’s piece yesterday, I would not call the plan to cap energy prices “perverse”, I would say it was about giving people the ability to plan, to know what was going to [...]
Planet Crypto: Nah then! Damien Hirst gets t’matches out on his non-fungibles October 25, 2022 Planet Crypto's mischievous bunch focus their satirical crosshairs on Yorkshire artist Damien Hirst and his NFT art burning.
Europe to stave off blackouts this winter if it avoids more “surprises” October 25, 2022 Europe should avoid blackouts this winter unless they are more "surprises", predicts the International Energy Agency.
Rishi Sunak: I will fix Truss ‘mistakes’ and win trust of the UK October 25, 2022 The UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to fix the “mistakes” made by Liz Truss and to earn the trust of the British people after the past month of chaos. Sunak said outside Number 10 that the country was “facing a profound economic crisis”, but promised that “we will create a future worthy [...]
Ethereum bucks the trend and Bitcoin slips, but still steady above $19k October 25, 2022 The price of Bitcoin has slipped since yesterday to $19,307, but is still holding strong above the $19,000 mark.
Champions League offers Liverpool and Klopp respite October 25, 2022 It has been Liverpool’s worst start to a Premier League season under the reign of Jurgen Klopp, but his side are one point away from securing knockout European football for the 12th time in 15 seasons. The Merseyside club have amassed just 16 points from their opening 11 Premier League games, sit eighth in the [...]
A Lord of the Rings pilgrimage to The Ribble Valley October 24, 2022 THE WEEKEND: I’m a lifelong fan of the great JRR Tolkien, and so to mark the release of the new Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power series dropping on Amazon, I’m visiting the village of Hurst in Lancashire’s rural Ribble Valley, which has a circular 9 km trail in honour of the Lord of [...]
This is a global, not a UK specific, economic slowdown October 24, 2022 Much attention has been devoted to the comings and goings at Number 10 Downing Street and the ailing economy in recent weeks, but the UK is not alone in wilting under the weight of soaring prices and interest rates. The eurozone economy, made up of the 19 countries that use the euro, is on course [...]
Something a little different from The MWek Company this week as our capital markets guy, Aj Rakhe, talks about a change in view in the landscape for ESG data. October 24, 2022 | Sponsored “A number of years ago, I bet that I was not the only one that turned the page, scrolled past or sighed and rolled my eyes at the mention of “ESG strategy”. I was adamant in my view (as someone who has worked within fixed income for most of my adult life) that an investor [...]