This generation of children will work until they’re 100 and work 40 jobs, warns futurologist Rohit Talwar at headteachers’ conference October 7, 2015 Thought millennials were changing the workplace? They're nothing compared to today's generation of children, who will have careers that are almost unrecognisable compared with the current workforce, a futurologist has warned. Rohit Talwar, the founder of trend researcher Fast Future, told a headteachers' conference in St Andrews yesterday that kids today will have "portfolio careers" that could [...]
Samsung’s share price leaps as it unveils profit boost October 7, 2015 Korean electronics giant and Apple arch-nemesis Samsung said today that it expects sales of 50-52 trillion won (£28.1bn-£29.2bn) in the third quarter of this year. Shareholders reacted with enthusiasm to the trading update, pushing the company's Korean-listed shares up 8.7 per cent. The company added that it expects operating profit for the quarter to be in the [...]
Halifax: UK house prices show biggest monthly fall in a year in September October 6, 2015 UK house prices fell by their most in a year in September, figures published today showed, with the average house price falling 0.9 per cent from £204,722 to £202,859 between August and September. That's a huge fall from the 2.7 per cent rise between July and August. The figures, by Halifax, showed prices in the [...]
Hoverboard creator Lexus has made a fully-functioning cardboard car, just because it can October 6, 2015 Having created the hoverboard, you might have thought there weren't many goals left for Lexus – but you'd be wrong. The car brand has turned its hand to rather greener pursuits – creating a fully-functioning car out of cardboard. In a blog, the company said the car had been inspired by the Japanese art of origami, [...]
Lloyds privatisation: 62,500 register for Lloyds shares on first day October 6, 2015 It turns out George Osborne's announcement yesterday that the government will make "at least" £2bn of Lloyds shares available sent retail investors into a frenzy: 62,500 have registered their intention to buy shares in the bank, Treasury sources have suggested. In contrast to the Royal Mail privatisation in 2013, where institutional investors were prioritised, yesterday the chancellor [...]
Why the only thing you need on your dating profile is your credit score October 5, 2015 Your credit score may not be a particularly sexy bit of personal data – but it could dictate more about your love life than you think. That's according to research published by the US Federal Reserve Board, anyway, which found that not only do people with better credit scores tend to commit to relationships for [...]
Glencore share price leaps 72 per cent in Hong Kong October 5, 2015 Shares in troubled miner Glencore surged as much as 72 per cent to HK$18.36 during trading in Hong Kong today. In a statement this morning, the company said it was "not aware" of any reason behind the price rises. The board confirms that it is not aware of any reasons for these price and volume [...]
Supermoon, Uber’s drama and Jeremy Corbyn’s 80s flashback: Here’s what got us talking this week October 2, 2015 It was the week in which everyone saw red – from water on the red planet to the rare super-blood moon to a sudden surge in the popularity of Donald Trump Halloween wigs. And, of course, the Labour Party conference. In fact, the only one not wearing rose-coloured glasses was Burger King, which unveiled a [...]
High stamp duty on prime property may prove self-defeating for the government October 2, 2015 In the days that followed the Conservative Party victory in May, the widely-held assumption was that normal service would resume at the prime end of the London housing market with double-digit annual growth. It was a proposition that never looked likely for several reasons, the principal one being a rise in stamp duty last [...]
Redcar steel plant owner SSI goes into liquidation October 2, 2015 It's been reported that the company behind a steel plant mothballed late last month with the loss of 1,700 jobs, has gone into liquidation. The BBC has reported that the Thai parent company of SSI, which owns the Redcar steel plant, has applied to a court in Thailand to wind up its UK arm. The [...]
