1 Minute Market Rundown – 8th June 2022 June 8, 2022 | City Talk Trade the ExtremesCrypto Needs to Bounce Soon A generally quiet and rangy day for the markets which taught us little new but served to demonstrate the themes continue. All eyes are focused on the US CPI on Friday and the ECB on Thursday for clues to the relative interest rate paths. There is a little [...]
Video game giant Keywords Studios snaps up Age of Empires developer Forgotten as it eyes global expansion June 8, 2022 Video game provider Keywords Studios has snapped up development studio Forgotten Empires for $32.5m (£25.9m), cementing the firm's position as the 'go to' technical and creative services platform for the global industry.
Another one: Zopa Bank enters buy-now pay-later space June 8, 2022 Digital bank Zopa has entered the highly competitive buy-now pay-later (BNPL) space, following suit of tech giant Apple and on the toes of the likes of Klarna.
Customer demand drives post-lockdown rebound for office giant Workspace June 8, 2022 Workspace Group has revealed customer demand for its services has returned to pre-Covid levels, in a vote of confidence for City working.
Welcome (back) to Ibiza, as the Balearic prepares for its biggest summer yet June 7, 2022 The pandemic hit every tourism-focused economy hard, but few places felt the effects of Covid more starkly than Ibiza, an island that specialises in squeezing lots of hot and sweaty people into enclosed spaces. Two years of closures and uncertainty took their toll – almost half of the island’s GDP comes from tourism and visitor [...]
Online Safety Bill: Government called to water down executive influence on Ofcom June 7, 2022 The government have been urged to water down the powers of the Secretary of State in the Online Safety Bill, suggesting it threatens the legitimacy of the law moving forward.
LIV Golf Invitational London: Who is playing £20m tournament at Centurion Club? June 7, 2022 Major winners, former world No1s and Ryder Cup legends are among the field for the first LIV Golf Invitational at Centurion Club just outside London this week. All tournaments in the series have a condensed pool of just 48 players, divided into 12 teams of four, but no cut – so all will play all [...]
Zelensky ‘glad we haven’t lost a very important ally’ for Ukraine after Johnson wins confidence vote June 7, 2022 Ukraine’s president Vlodymyr Zelensky has breathed a sign of relief that Boris Johnson won a confidence vote last night, saying he’s “glad we haven’t lost a very important ally.” His praise comes after Boris Johnson narrowly escaped being removed as leader with a slimmer margin of the vote then his predecessor Theresa May had in [...]
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Hertfordshire prison says all incoming mail must be sent through Moonpig, Funkypigeon and Freeprints June 7, 2022 Inmates at a Hertfordshire prison will only be able to receive mail from Funky Pigeon, Moon Pig and Freeprints due to drug safety concerns. In announcement posted on Twitter, the letter from HMP The Mount’s governor Paul Crossey said the move was taken because it has “become increasingly concerned with the threat presented by psychoactive [...]