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CBI: UK needs to match US and EU green spendingGood morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets.The head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will today say the UK is falling behind the...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Woman holds British Pound banknotes in this illustration taken May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration LONDON (Reuters) -Sterling retreated on Monday from a seven-month high against the dollar hit in Asian hours, having been helped last week...

President Joe Biden hoped to put the mishandling of sensitive government files behind him. Instead, the emergence of another batch of classified material now has his own party upset at him. Rather than close ranks, Democratic allies responded with exasperation...

Britain’s farming union has accused the chair of Tesco of living in a “parallel universe” after he said food companies may be using inflation as an excuse to increase prices further than necessary.Official inflation data for December, which was published...

(An excerpt from the book, "Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange," by Bob Pisani.)Thirty years ago this week, State Street Global Advisors launched the Standard & Poor's Depositary...

What is AB5? California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) is a law that went into effect in California on January 1, 2020. The law is intended to protect workers in the gig economy by establishing a test that determines whether an...

What is SASE? Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a new concept in networking and cybersecurity that combines network and security functions into a single platform. SASE combines the traditional functions of a wide area network (WAN) with those of...

Households and businesses in Great Britain will be paid to cut back on their electricity use between 5pm and 6pm on Monday, in the first real test of a National Grid scheme. With temperatures dropping sharply, the electricity system operator...

Campaign launches today (23 January), the start of Cervical Cancer Week. READ SOURCE...

Life insurers could be overly optimistic about their ability to sell down assets in a crisis, the Bank of England has warned.The BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority, which supervises the sector, put 16 life insurers through a stress test of credit...

Households with smart meters are being urged to “earn a bit of money” by cutting their energy use during peak times. Energy suppliers including Octopus Energy, British Gas, EoN and EDF will effectively pay households who have signed up around...

In its European Demand Monitor report, Invesco reported that total AUM for ETFs had fallen to $1.42trn, representing a $192bn decline or 11.9% drop. Meanwhile, ESG ETFs accounted for 61% of net new assets, at $53bn in 2022, meaning that...

Nadhim Zahawi was fighting for his political life on Monday as a senior Tory said he would have to “take the consequences” if more emerges about his tax affairs.Former minister Tim Loughton added that he believes Rishi Sunak “will take...

© Reuters By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- Stocks in Europe advanced slightly to begin the trading week, with investors looking ahead to fresh comments from European Central Bank officials and a raft of new economic data. At 03:10 ET (08:10 GMT),...

The historic venue's charity owner has revealed an £8.9m funding gap READ SOURCE...

There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. The nature of innovation today encourages nimbleness, flexibility and creativity above all else. If you are an innovator, it’s an exciting world full of possibilities. If you aren’t an...

Here's how the electric vehicle industry is bringing a new wave of skilling and employment for millennials.5 tips to make successful career in electric vehicle industryBy India Today Web Desk: From the first horseless carriage running on a battery (invented...

Energy companies are to be investigated by the regulator Ofgem after a sharp increase in the number of struggling households being forced on to prepayment meters.Ofgem could consider taking legal action if it determines the rise in the number of...

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter If Pep Guardiola’s influence on football tactics involves the false nine and the idea of perpetual possession,...

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KX, maker of kdb+, the world's fastest time series database and real-time analytics engine, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Hoffman as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Joining from Google, where he...

New Delhi:  Chipmaker AMD on Monday launched the new Ryzen 7020 Series and Athlon 7020 Series Processor lineup for mobile in India, which are meant to power lower-cost and lower-powered “everyday laptop” devices. The company said the Ryzen and Athlon...

Iraq's prime minister on Monday replaced the governor of the country's Central Bank following a weekslong plunge of the Iraqi dinar, the state news agency reported. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made the move after the governor, Mustafa Ghaleb Mukheef,...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe day that was, Monday 23 JanuaryWe will wrap up the live blog for Monday here. Thanks for spending time with us. Here’s what made the news today: First...

The Bank of Spain has given approval for the launch of a pilot program involving the issuance and usage of euro-pegged stablecoins. The program, which MONEI, a fintech institution, is launching, will allow users to issue digital euros with fiat...

FoodTraditional Romanian food is dishes like sarmale (cabbage or vine leaves stuffed with meat, rice and vegetables), polenta, ciorbă (sour soup) and Transylvanian goulash, which simmers for eight hours in a wood-fired oven. Two restaurants in the historic centre are...

Value of 'gold-plated' pension plans fell by more than £400bn last year: Assets held by company funds dropped by a whopping 23%Details of this destruction in figures from The Pension Protection Fund Rout equivalent to economy of Israel or Argentina It caused...

This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morningGood morning. To start: European Council president Charles Michel says he wants EU...

Inflow in gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) plunged by 90% to ₹459 crore in 2022 due to rising prices of yellow metal, increasing interest rate structure coupled with inflationary pressures. This was way lower than inflow of ₹4,814 crore in...

Ethereum (ETH), arguably the most popular crypto coin after Bitcoin (BTC), managed to climb above the $1,600 mark since November 2022. The global market cap, which was enduring a bearish streak so far, rose above the $1 trillion mark over...

Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has made a multi-billion dollar investment in cloud-based software firm Salesforce Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.It is unclear what Elliott, one of the world's most prominent activist investors, is pushing for at...