Coffee beans and ready meals send food inflation soaring yet again – and peak is yet to come May 2, 2023 Food inflation reached new highs in April soaring 15.7 per cent, according to new data, with the cost of convenience food such as ready meals and coffee beans increasing due to supply chain woes. While shop price inflation fell slightly by one per cent in the month to 8.8 per cent, food prices remained at [...]
Recession, what recession? Firms shrug off UK economy fears to focus on growth May 2, 2023 Britain’s small businesses are turning their attention away from worrying about whether the country will slip into a recession to focus on growth, a new survey out today shows. Confidence among the country’s small firms – which drive output – climbed sharply from its depths at the end of last year, according to the Federation [...]
JP Morgan takes over First Republic Bank in second largest US bank collapse ever May 1, 2023 Wall Street titan JP Morgan has swooped in for crisis-hit First Republic Bank, marking the third big American bank to collapse in just over a month and the second largest failure ever, US authorities announced today. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) confirmed they had accepted a bid from JP Morgan to seize the majority [...]
Analysis: BP, Shell will need to show investors plans for profit as oil prices slide April 28, 2023 With oil and gas prices lower, business acumen and strategy will begin to have more of an influence over the bottom line of energy giants.
Eurozone grows marginally in first quarter as outlook for 2023 remains weak April 28, 2023 The eurozone grew only marginally in the first three months of 2023 and at a rate lower than market expectations after stagnation at the end of last year, preliminary data showed on Friday. Gross domestic product in the eurozone expanded by 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, below expectations in a Reuters poll for [...]
Co-op Bank buoyed by interest rate rises as takeover speculation continues April 28, 2023 The Co-operative Bank has reported a jump in income as the latest lender to be boosted by higher interest rates which have pushed up the cost of borrowing. The company said its net interest income – the difference between what a bank charges for loans and pays for savings – surged by a fifth to [...]
UK on course to miss decarbonisation goals, MPs warn April 28, 2023 The UK will fail to reach its decarbonisation goals via the grid by 2035 - unless it significantly speeds up deployment of technology.
Amazon share price tanks after software giant announces fall in cloud spend April 28, 2023 The brakes appeared to be coming on to Amazon’s cloud growth spending as the tech giant said it was looking to cut costs. The news overshadowed the company’s quarterly sales, and an announcement that its profits that topped expectations. Amazon’s value rose $125bn (£100bn) but remarks by its chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky, drove the [...]
FTSE 100 close: Barclays surge fails to prevent losses on London index April 27, 2023 London’s FTSE 100 slipped today, pushed lower by investors wobbling over concerns about the health of the global economy amid banking and interest rate fears. The capital’s premier index dropped 0.27 per cent to 7,831.59 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, climbed [...]
Asda and EG Group £12bn merger would risk jobs and food supplies, union warns April 27, 2023 A union representing workers at Asda has said a potential merger of the supermarket with EG Group’s UK petrol stations could risk jobs, food supplies and monopolise petrol stations across the UK. The GMB Union wrote to Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch urging her to call in the competition regulator to investigate the possible multibillion pound [...]