Election 2019: Sterling rises as traders await vote December 11, 2019 Sterling has risen against the dollar ahead of tomorrow’s General Election, recovering the ground it lost yesterday after a closely-watched poll halved the Conservative party’s expected majority. The rise continues the growth spurt sterling has been through since the start of December, which has been driven by polls predicting a Tory election victory. Traders by [...]
General election: Tories to have lower primary vote than in 2017, new poll warns December 11, 2019 Pollsters who correctly predicted President Donald Trump have forecast that the Tories will win fewer votes tomorrow than under Theresa May in 2017’s disastrous election. Polling from FTI Research predicts the Conservatives’ primary vote will fall from 42.4 per cent in 2017 to 40 per cent in tomorrow’s General Election. Read more: Election 2019: Leaders [...]
AA shares leap as firm plans bond buyback December 11, 2019 Shares in motoring association the AA jumped 15 per cent today after the company announced a possible share buyback after a positive first half. The company, which provides insurance, driving lessons and breakdown cover also said it intends to pursue a range of debt tenders, redemptions and issuances over the coming months. Read more: Supercuts [...]
Brits ‘wrongly’ told they can vote tomorrow after IT glitch December 11, 2019 Some people who are not on the electoral register have been wrongly told they can vote in tomorrow’s election due to an IT error. The Electoral Commission confirmed that a “small number” of people had been affected by the mistake, but did not specify a number. Read more: Election 2019: Leaders give one final push [...]
Election 2019: Leaders travel across UK in final push December 11, 2019 Party leaders are travelling across the country today in a last ditch plea to appeal to voters before the polls open for tomorrow’s General Election. Boris Johnson got his day started before sunrise by doing a milk round in South Yorkshire. Read more: Election 2019: The many losers, and occasional winners, of the campaign He [...]
Greta Thunberg crowned Time Person of the Year 2019 December 11, 2019 Time named teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as its person of the year today, after she inspired worldwide protests against inaction on tackling climate change. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, whose school strikes in 2018 sparked the so-called Fridays for future movement, is the youngest person to win the prestigious magazine title. Read more: Greta [...]
Don’t cross the streams: Netflix to make series about the rise of Spotify December 11, 2019 As the streaming wars heat up, media firms are increasingly looking to get ahead of their rivals. But now it appears Netflix may be willing to bury the hatchet – by producing a series about its audio streaming rival Spotify. Netflix today said it will air an untitled scripted show that documents the rise of [...]
Saudi Aramco shares surge 10 per cent in $25.6bn stock market debut December 11, 2019 Saudi Aramco’s shares jumped 10 per cent today, as the kingdom’s state-run oil company started life as a public company on Riyadh’s Tadawul stock exchange. The rise took the oil behemoth’s market value to nearly $1.9 trillion (£1.45 trillion), meaning it is now comfortably the world’s most valuable listed firm. Read more: Institutional tranche of Saudi [...]
Mike Lynch $5bn fraud trial enters final stages December 11, 2019 British businessman Mike Lynch will face renewed scrutiny tomorrow as Hewlett-Packard kicks off its closing submissions in a $5.1bn fraud trial centred on its acquisition of software firm Autonomy. Hewlett-Packard is suing Lynch, the founder of software company Autonomy, and the firm’s former finance chief Sushovan Hussain, accusing the company of falsely inflating its revenue [...]
Election 2019: The many losers, and occasional winners, of the campaign December 11, 2019 The winter election has finally come – but was the campaign as bad as we thought? Here we round up the many losers, and occasional winners, of 2019… Tory rebel David Gauke might be about to lose his South West Hertfordshire seat to his Conservative replacement Gagan Mohindra, but the founding member of the Gaukward [...]