Surrey bowler Overton backs side to win domestic double this season April 20, 2022 Surrey bowler Jamie Overton believes they can win a domestic double after making an unbeaten start to the season that has lifted the club top of the County Championship. The south Londoners drew their opening match with Warwickshire before cruising past Hampshire in a match that saw Overton take handy figures of 8-107. The former [...]
Latham & Watkins asks to drop sanctioned VTB Bank in lawsuit over downed flight MH17 April 20, 2022 Los Angeles law firm Latham & Watkins has asked for permission to drop Russia’s state-owned VTB Bank as a client, in a lawsuit over claims the sanctioned bank funded the militia group that shot down Malaysia Airline Flight 17. In a filing to a New York court, Latham & Watkins asked for permission to withdraw [...]
Netflix shares tumble after earnings last night April 20, 2022 Netflix shares fall nearly 25% after the company reported a drop in subscribers. What happened after Netflix’s reported earnings? In extended trade last night, Netflix saw its shares tumble by a quarter of its entire value. Almost 25% was wiped off the share price in extended trade on the IG platform last night as a [...]
Oil prices stagnate amid reduced demand expectations after IMF cuts growth forecasts April 20, 2022 Inflation, reduced growth expectations and continuing coronavirus lockdowns in China are weighing down oil prices after last month's rallies.
Wimbledon confirms ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis stars including Daniil Medvedev and Aryna Sabalenka April 20, 2022 Wimbledon has confirmed that it will ban Russian and Belarusian tennis stars, including former men’s world No1 Daniil Medvedev, due to the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. Medvedev and women’s No4 Aryna Sabalenka are the highest ranked players affected by today’s announcement from the All England Club. Others impacted are the former women’s world No 1 [...]
Nor way! British gas prices soar as maintenance issues curb Norwegian flows April 20, 2022 Gas prices have spiked across European benchmarks with maintenance curbing Norwegian gas flows to the UK, exacerbating supply fears.
How a Fordham psychology graduate became a hit down the crypto rabbit hole April 20, 2022 Milana Valmont always knew she would become an entrepreneur – but she never thought it would be a crypto entrepreneur.
Veteran congressman calls on Biden to ban oligarchs’ UK lawyers from the United States April 20, 2022 The UK lawyers that have worked on behalf of Russian oligarchs in their efforts to silence journalists should be banned from travelling to the United States, a senior congressman has said. In a letter to US secretary of state Anthony Blinken, Democratic Party congressman Steve Cohen called on the Biden administration to impose travel bans [...]
‘Crazy war’: Sanctioned Russian banking billionaire urges West to give Putin ‘a clear exit to save face and stop this massacre’ April 20, 2022 Vladimir Putin’s “crazy war” has been condemned by sanctioned Russian tycoon Oleg Tinkov, who said 90 per cent of people disagree with it. The founder of the country’s second biggest credit card issuer took to Instagram to criticise the authoritarian president and the Kremlin’s brutal assault on Kyiv. Tinkov, who has lived in the UK [...]
Are the days of the US dollar as world’s reserve currency numbered? April 20, 2022 The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for more than 100 years, but how long will it be before we seen a new unit of exchange replacing it