HRLocker has announced it has closed its first £1.8M (€2m) funding round. The round was led by Hugh O’Donnell’s investment firm, MACX3 Investments Limited, alongside a number of other successful entrepreneurs, family offices and private investors EIIS investors. HRLocker has ambitious ...

Royal Mail has said it is facing severe disruption to its international export services after a “cyber incident”. The company is temporarily advising customers to hold any export mail while it tries to resolve the issue. Royal Mail added that ...

Around 100,000 civil servants will strike on 1 February in a worsening dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the Public and Commercial Services union has announced. It will be the largest civil service strike for years and coincides with the ...

Struggling NatWest borrowers have been given an extra six months to pay back unsecured loans and overdrafts. The part state-owned bank said it has “not yet” seen “significant” increases in the number of defaults or people in arrears but said ...

People will be allowed to keep claiming sickness benefits after returning to work and will be offered tax breaks for getting jobs, under plans to boost employment. A reform of disability benefits is likely to scrap a “perverse” assessment system, ...

Thousands of Microsoft employees across the United States will be given unlimited days off in an overhaul of its holiday policy. The company’s discretionary time off scheme for its American workforce will come into effect on January 16, according to ...

WASHINGTON — The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month. A joint statement issued after a meeting ...

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO — The US aviation sector was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday after a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced a 90-minute halt to all US departing flights. ...

BEIJING — People in China worried on Thursday about spreading coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns for holidays that the World Health Organization (WHO) warns could inflame a raging outbreak. The ...

Price pattern analogues are fun to find and track, as long as one understands that the correlation is never going to be absolutely perfect. And the additional point that must be understood is that every pattern analogue breaks correlation eventually — ...