Crypto markets drop as Facebook earnings threaten wider market recovery February 3, 2022 The price of Bitcoin is currently down by more than three per cent since yesterday morning to around $37,000.
As Johnson and Starmer dance to the same tune, politics will look for an outsider February 3, 2022 THIS week, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has invoked Margaret Thatcher in an effort to skewer Boris Johnson for ignoring Covid rules and attacked the Prime Minister for presiding over a policy of “low growth and high taxes”. It’s a strong position for Starmer to be in, as support for Johnson groans under the [...]
Heart Radio trumps Radio 1 by 2m listens February 3, 2022 Heart – the UK’s biggest commercial radio brand – celebrates its highest ever listening figures, for the second consecutive quarter with 10.3m listeners now tuning in each week – over 2m more listeners than Radio 1. The UK’s biggest commercial radio brand continues to grow in reach, hours and share, and welcomes nearly a quarter of a million new listeners as the nation tuned in [...]
Is the future of our financial system DeFi? February 3, 2022 | City Talk If Bitcoin is the Book of Genesis in crypto’s historical record, then DeFi (decentralised finance) might as well be the New Testament. Not a big religion buff? That’s ok – we’ve put together a way more detailed explanation about DeFi and its key components. While having knowledge of the broader cryptoasset market is key, DeFi [...]
Levelling up: Khan says ‘deprived’ London areas need funding as much as the North February 2, 2022 Sadiq Khan has said London’s poorest boroughs are “some of the most deprived” in the UK and need funding just as much as the North in response to the government’s newly unveiled levelling up white paper. The mayor of London said he welcomed the new policy plan to help left behind areas in the North [...]
OPEC+ sticks to oil output increases despite members failing to hit agreed targets February 2, 2022 OPEC and its allies such as Russia (OPEC+) have stuck to agreed plans to raise production by another 400,000 barrels per day in March.
Crypto AM shines its spotlight on Bricktrade – a London-based property tokenisation platform February 2, 2022 Bricktrade is the UK's first property investment platform that tokenises real estate assets and opens them up to the possibility of investment from crypto market participants, whilst simultaneously providing real asset-backed investments.
Vodafone chief calls for consolidation amid fears European mobile operators are falling behind February 2, 2022 Vodafone chief urges policymakers to allow European mobile operators to merge and consolidate as firms feel mounting pressure. European telecoms companies face a bill of up to €300bn to roll out super fast 5G across the continent, which some argue is made harder by regulators demanding multiple operators compete in each market to keep consumer [...]
It’s a myth that ETFs are eating the world February 2, 2022 | City Talk ‘Software is eating the world’: so wrote the US venture capitalist Marc Andreessen back in 2011. From today’s perspective, with companies like Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta dominating the stock markets, Andreessen’s observation seems to have held up. Had BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink made similar comments about exchange-traded funds (ETFs) 11 years ago, he likewise [...]
Government plans £6bn loan scheme to protect households from soaring energy bills February 2, 2022 Downing Street will offer struggling energy companies access to billions of pounds in state-backed loans, according to The Times.