Crypto AM Friday with Jason Deane August 13, 2021 Crypto at a Glance with Jason Deane While lawmakers in the US continue to wrangle over details of the Infrastructure Bill containing the crypto legislation, China kicks out the last of the Bitcoin miners and almost all nations continue to print money at an unprecedented rate, Bitcoin just keeps quietly building and expanding in the [...]
Crypto markets reach highest level since May as US tax legislation looms August 9, 2021 Crypto at a Glance The cryptocurrency market yesterday rallied to its highest level since 19 May, hitting a total market cap of more than $1.85 trillion as both Bitcoin and Ethereum made gains. Sentiment has also flipped to greedy for the first time since May, according to the Fear & Greed Index, while the Twitter [...]
The future of film: Big screen’s make or break moment August 9, 2021 As blockbuster season explodes into action and Cannes finally reconvenes, it may seem like business as usual for cinema. But peek behind the scenes and there are still huge challenges to overcome. Three CAs in the sector tell Christian Koch about the big screen’s make-or-break moment. This article first appeared in ICAS’ CA magazine. Hollywood and [...]
US stocks reach record highs as jobs market recovery gathers pace August 6, 2021 Wall Street opened higher on Friday to reach record highs after fresh data showed the US labour market is recovering from Covid at a faster pace than first thought. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones both hit record highs in morning trading on Friday. The former rose 0.08 per cent and the latter was up [...]
John Lewis hikes lorry driver salaries by £5,000 amid driver shortages August 5, 2021 John Lewis has today announced that it will up the salaries of its lorry drivers by £5,000 a year as the current shortage of HGV drivers continues to weigh on the supermarket sector. The retailer said that the rise, which works out at roughly £2 an hour, came in response to the shortfall, which has [...]
School’s out: Time to be a tourist in your City of Culture August 3, 2021 Summer in the City is the best time to dive into the rich and diverse cultural scene. Here’s our monthly round-up of all the best goings on. The LSO have a series of Summer Shorts on Friday mornings including 6 August Ayanna Witter-Johnson and the LSO Percussion Ensemble in the Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s [...]
Lorry driver shortage ‘could hit Black Friday and Christmas’ July 27, 2021 A senior executive at one of the UK’s largest logistics companies has warned that supply chains are facing six to 12 months of pressure due to the current shortage of lorry drivers. Ian Keilty, chief operating officer at FTSE firm Wincanton, said that both Black Friday and Christmas shopping could be hampered by the shortfall. [...]
Socialism is on the rise in the UK – we need radical free-market solutions to issues like the housing crisis to fight it July 8, 2021 Last Friday, an underwater oil pipeline burst in the Gulf of Mexico. Spectacular images of a burning oil patch, which looked a lot like the “eye of Sauron” from Lord of the Rings, quickly went viral around the world. What had gone wrong? It did not take long for Twitter to reach its verdict: the [...]
Restaurant delivery boxes are here to stay: We review 48 of them June 29, 2021 Before the pandemic, most top chefs would have turned their nose up at home delivery services. There’s the lack of control, the logistical nightmare, not to mention the wafer-thin margins. But necessity being the mother of invention has led to dozens of outstanding delivery services, and even with restaurants back open and looking forward to [...]
Government announces a ‘London summit’ to boost vaccine uptake June 23, 2021 The government will hold a London “vaccine summit” on Friday with Sadiq Khan and top health officials in a bid to boost the capital’s comparatively low take up of vaccines. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi today announced that the summit will aim to scrutinise why the take-up of first vaccine doses in London “is slightly behind [...]