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Business travellers end up spending even more than regular holiday makers, with workers losing an average £142 in unclaimed expenses on each trip April 18, 2016 From business class to spirits in the sky, you might think your company card goes a long way on a business trip – but a new study into our spending habits has revealed that we're wasting our own money when we travel for work. UK travellers aren't great at sticking to the budgets set by their employers: around 83 per cent [...]
Saddest job ever? Tata Steel appoints new UK chief executive April 18, 2016 They say the UK's workforce is getting flightier, but this is just ridiculous. Tata Steel said today it has hired a new UK chief executive – to oversee the company during its final days in the UK. In a statement today, the company said it had appointed Bimlendra Jha, currently a member of the executive committee of [...]
UK public more likely to invest its pension savings as period of low interest rates drags on April 18, 2016 The UK public has become more willing to take risks with its retirement savings in a period of historically low interest rates, new research has shown. Investment firm Franklin Templeton's annual Retirement Income Strategies and Expectations survey found that 30 per cent of people expect to invest part of their pension pots after they retire, compared to [...]
How Brexit would affect the UK’s pharma, auto, financial services, digital, professional, steel and aerospace sectors, according to the Treasury April 18, 2016 The Treasury's 200-page report on the impact of a Brexit on the UK economy looks at exactly how bad things could get for certain sectors. You might not agree with it, but this is what the government's bean counters estimate will happen to some of the country's biggest and most important industries. Pharma The sector, [...]
Kumamoto earthquake: Japanese business suffers post-earthquake as Nikkei 225 closes down and production at Toyota and Honda stops April 18, 2016 Some of Japan's most recognisable business names have halted production after two powerful earthquakes devastated the country late last week. The earthquakes have left at least 40 people dead, hundreds more people injured and thousands of households without access to power, according to local media. Car maker Honda announced today that it would be pausing [...]
EU referendum: Treasury’s Brexit claims rubbished by Vote Leave MP John Redwood April 18, 2016 Conservative MP and Vote Leave campaigner John Redwood has rubbished the Treasury's claims that a Brexit would cost each household £4,300 a year as "absurd". Last night it emerged the government department's analysis into the impact of the UK leaving the European Union – which was published today – would show that Britain's national income could be six [...]
EU referendum: This is what the Treasury thinks will happen if we vote for a Brexit April 18, 2016 A day after revealing its top line (and allowing plenty of time for the pro-Brexit camp to offer their arguments against it), the Treasury has released its 200-page report into the impact leaving the European Union will have on the UK. In it, the government department argues that whichever way you cut it, "the UK’s [...]
Franklin Templeton has discovered that people are now more accepting of volatility in their retirement savings funds, almost a third of retirees now keep some of their savings in investments April 18, 2016 NULL