Stocks are falling in London, as traders rush to sell following last night’s hike in US interest rates. It is the worst performance since Sept 2016. When the markets opened for trading the FTSE 100 shed 119 points (1.6%), which is a new 28-month low of 6646 points. Over in ...
A homeless man who was discovered close to death near to Parliament has died in hospital. Gyula Remes, a 43-year-old Hungarian national, was found by a friend near revolving doors used by politicians and staff in the House of Commons. David Lammy MP tweeted: "There is something rotten in Westminster when MP’s ...
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – December 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of November 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Read more Extract from ‘winners and losers’ The Californian wildfires took ...
QuotedData’s economic roundup – December 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you ...
Coming at the end of a dire year for UK retailers, the severe profit warning issued by ASOS a week before Christmas, on downgrading its sales growth target from 25 to 15%, has shocked the market. Could this be the end of consumerism? Despite the cash-flow troubles experienced by many ...
A blistering last Prime Minister's Questions of the year, in which Theresa May appeared on the ropes has ended in controversy as Tory MPs accused Jeremy Corbyn of calling May "stupid woman" under his breath. The Labour Leader can be seen muttering under his breath in an ill-tempered exchange on ...
Low-skilled workers from EU countries will no longer have the automatic right to work in the UK after Brexit, under proposed new immigration rules. Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the plans - to be published later - will not include a "specific target" for reducing numbers coming into the UK. ...
The former Take That star, 44, has spent five years trying to secure planning permission for a subterranean extension,
Following the success of the Brexit referendum, MPs today voted in a new bill to allow a mystery candidate to stand in the next General Election