Rishi Sunak is drawing up plans to boost support for first-time home buyers, as a key plank of the Conservatives’ campaign for a fifth term in office. Officials in Downing Street and the Treasury are looking at proposals to help ...
Ten nightclubs are closing every month in Britain as pressures continue to weigh on the sector. Nearly a third of clubs have put up the shutters since 2019 and only 865 remain in the UK, according to the Night Time ...
Business leaders’ optimism about the next year has risen for a fifth consecutive month, returning towards levels recorded immediately before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Institute of Directors’ economic confidence index rose to a reading of -5 in April, from ...
NEW YORK – The bankers running the sale process for Subway have given the private equity firms vying for the sandwich chain a $5 billion acquisition financing plan, hoping to overcome a challenging environment for leveraged buyouts and fetch the company’s asking price of more than $10 billion, people familiar with ...
NEW YORK – PNC Financial Services Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citizens Financial Group Inc. were among banks that submitted final bids for First Republic Bank on Sunday in an auction being run by US regulators, sources familiar with the matter said. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp had been expected to announce a deal on Sunday night, with the ...
The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis said on Sunday, adding that it was also ready to help repatriate Ukrainian children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied land. “There is a mission in course now but it is not yet public. ...
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION A drone drops a small wooden projectile with three spiral tails and a seed mounted on the tip. It gently lands on the bare ground and sits there, exposed to the elements, until it rains. Then, the moisture penetrates the wood fibers, and the spiral ...
As the mainstream focuses on negative developments, such as the Fed’s latest utterings and the implosion of subsets of the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, there seems to be a stealthy migration of money into other select areas of the ...