Rishi Sunak’s £520 million scheme to improve the productivity of Britain’s small companies faces the chop as part of a review of business support in Whitehall to find cost savings. The former chancellor launched the initiative in March 2021 to ...
Hundreds of dock workers at one of the UK’s largest container ports are beginning a fresh two-week strike in a dispute over pay, which could further disrupt the country’s supply chains. Nearly 600 members of the Unite union at the ...
Boris Johnson pulled out of the Conservative leadership contest yesterday, paving the way for Rishi Sunak to become Britain’s next prime minister. Johnson accused Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, who is also standing for the party leadership, of failing to come ...
BANGKOK/JAKARTA – Fed up with the constant stream of fake news on her family WhatsApp group chats in India – ranging from a water crisis in South Africa to rumors around a Bollywood actor’s death -Tarunima Prabhakar built a simple tool to ...
MUMBAI – Palm oil prices are likely to strengthen further as excessive rain in key producing countries curbs output, while demand increases for its use in food and biofuels, industry officials said. Palm oil prices FCPOc3 have climbed by around a fifth this month but are still trading far below an all-time high ...
Ukraine branded the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT as an inciter of genocide on Sunday after a presenter said Ukrainian children who saw Russians as occupiers under the Soviet Union should have been drowned. Within hours, Margarita Simonyan, the channel’s editor-in-chief, said she had suspended the presenter, ...
KARANGGENENG, Indonesia – Susanto looked at his catch after four hours of fishing – only four mullet – and shook his head in dismay. Usually on an August afternoon he would be on a fishing boat off the Indonesian coast, catching mullet, ...
It’s not often that one person kicks off a whole new beverage category, whilst sampling a jet lag pick-me-up. But Dietrich Mateschitz used his marketing expertise to give birth to Red Bull and then, through that drink’s success, jump start ...
Markets love to make fools of us all. And this market is so oversold that any positive surprise could launch a huge rally as pervasive bearishness, an olive branch from the Fed and, perhaps, a short-term improvement in liquidity may ...
I made a bold bottoming call on June 16th, just prior to a massive 700-point rally in the S&P 500. I didn’t see the recent drop and double-bottom coming, however. Now that we’ve seen it, has anything changed? Are my ...