FTSE 100 today: London markets to open red as Fed rate-cut odds dwindle, spurring global decline April 3, 2024 Asian shares mirrored Wall Street's decline, while gold reached a record high and oil prices rose. China's services sector experienced accelerated growth. Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in almost 25 years. Investors awaited Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech and the release of the US Services PMI data.
Progressive Prince ready to rule the roost at Kelso April 2, 2024 UP AT Kelso, the action isn’t of the highest quality but it’s certainly competitive. I didn’t find that many betting opportunities in all honesty, but I did think PRINCE DES FICHAUX might finally get his day in the sun for his new yard in the Paxtons For Kverneland Machinery & Genuine Spares Handicap Chase (3.00pm). [...]
Williamsburg, once a Mecca for hipsters, is now a luxury hub April 2, 2024 Williamsburg is the hipster capital of the world, the Brooklyn neighbourhood where a thousand moustaches were born. Yet the New York City district has largely thrown off its bohemian past to become a hub for gourmet restaurants and chic hotels. Williamsburg’s economy collapsed in the 1970s with the deindustrialisation of New York. The area’s [...]
Allotments are the new members’ clubs April 2, 2024 Members clubs are struggling but you’ll be on a waiting list for a patch at an allotment. Marcus Jaye on the remarkable rise of urban farming
Brits lose more than £2.6bn to investment scams since 2020, pension body warns April 2, 2024 Britons have lost more than £2.6bn to investment fraud since the start of 2020, according to new research, as experts warn of the rise of scams originating on social media.
Royal Mail flies in new boss Emma Gilthorpe from Heathrow Airport April 2, 2024 Emma Gilthorpe will undergo an intensive induction process before taking over full responsibility for Royal Mail group in the summer.
‘Recovered from doldrums’: UK manufacturing returns to growth for first time since July 2022 April 2, 2024 Output and new orders for manufacturing firms increased for the first time in a year helping business optimism about the year ahead to hit an 11-month high.
The UK economy beat all but one of its G7 peers on this metric last year April 2, 2024 Both the Conservatives and Labour agree that this one vital area of the UK economy needs as much support as possible, Chris Dorrell writes
Meet the founder turning ads into a positive force with Good-Loop April 2, 2024 Amy Williams tells Ambition A.M. the journey of Good-Loop and its aims to transform the advertising landscape into a positive force.
House prices fall in March as market continues rates-driven seesaw April 2, 2024 The annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6 per cent in March, from 1.2 per cent in February.