At least 17 people killed after BHP Billiton-owned dam bursts at Samarco Mineracao mine in Brazil November 6, 2015 Update: At least 17 people are reported to have been killed after a Brazilian dam owned by BHP Billiton burst yesterday. The death toll is expected to rise above 40, according to Adao Severino Junior, fire chief of the city, while more than 50 people have been injured. The population of Mariana is thought to be [...]
John Lewis Christmas advert 2015 review: Why the Man on the Moon leaves me feeling out in the cold November 6, 2015 John Lewis knows a thing or two about building anticipation around its Christmas ad campaign. Over the past four years (since 2011's The Long Wait) the department store has ensured it dominates the festive season by shrouding its big-budget ad in secrecy – but with just enough hints leaked to get us consumers frothing at [...]
FTSE 100 falls after interest rates are left on hold – London Report November 6, 2015 The Bank of England’s (BoE) decision to keep interest rates at record lows for the 80th month wasn’t able to prevent the FTSE closing down last night, finishing with a loss of 0.8 per cent at 6,364.9 points. The FTSE had been trading in negative territory throughout the morning ahead the BoE’s announcement but rallied [...]
How you build well-being into an office: Thinking beyond design makes economic sense for businesses November 6, 2015 Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, recently launched an initiative to improve health and well-being among NHS employees – designed to tackle the £2.4bn annual cost of sickness absences among its 1.3m staff in England. Stevens’s plans include giving staff access to Zumba classes, promoting cycling to work, and efforts to improve workers’ stress [...]
Sterling falls off a cliff as Bank of England keeps interest rate hike at bay November 6, 2015 Mark Carney’s Bank of England pushed sterling off a cliff yesterday by suggesting that interest rates could stay anchored to their historic low until 2017. Having said earlier in the year that a rate hike could come towards the end of 2015 or start of 2016, the Bank’s governor appears to be diverging from the position [...]
John Lewis Christmas advert 2015: Everything you need to know about Man on the Moon, including when it will air online and on TV, who sings the cover song and what it’s all about November 6, 2015 Good news, Christmas fans – the wait is nearly over. No, not for the big day itself, but for the official start of the season that comes with the launch of John Lewis' Christmas ad. The embargo for the video lifts at 8am today, but before that the department store is allowing a drip feed [...]
Major European investors, including Aberdeen Asset Management and BlackRock Investment Managers, call for ‘on the road’ carbon dioxide emissions testing November 6, 2015 European institutional investors will call on policy makers across the EU today, to include ‘real-drive’ data on CO2 emissions in European tests. This comes days after it emerged Volkswagen has discovered ‘irregularities’ in the carbon dioxide levels of some 800,000 cars. The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has 118 members, including BlackRock Investment [...]
Number of permanent staff hired shot up sharply during October, finds REC and KPMG November 6, 2015 Four out of ten recruiters (41 per cent) placed more people in permanent positions this October than they did a month ago, according to a report released today by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and professional services firm KPMG . The latest Report on Jobs, which the two organisations publish monthly, found that the [...]
Older homeowners’ wealth set to double to £2.5 trillion by 2035 November 6, 2015 The total property wealth of over-55s in England is expected to double to almost £2.5 trillion by 2035, new research shows, as the baby boomer generation benefit from house price rises and a longer life expectancy. Older homeowners are currently sitting on £1.2 trillion worth of wealth, According to Age Partnership. The financial planning specialist [...]
Uber for energy providers would save consumers money reports Adam Smith Institute November 6, 2015 The British energy market needs to cut red tape and allow new disruptive technologies to challenge old models of energy distribution, the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) has argued in a new paper out today. In the paper, the ASI, a free market think tank, said that new features such as smart-meters and “microgrids” can “can [...]