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Housing market looks set for spring surge as January sees highest level of property sales for two years House transactions were 5.2% higher than in January last year, HMRC said Some 102,810 home sales transactions were recorded last month But the figures reflect sales agreed in September and October as transaction figures only settle after … Read more
Jimmy Bartel and girlfriend Lauren Mand hit back at a sick troll on Friday, after the troll brought up his ex-wife Nadia. Former AFL star Jimmy, 36, slammed killer dad Rowan Baxter on his Instagram story, after he murdered his wife and three children, when the follower trolled Jimmy. When the troll said that Jimmy … Read more
Astrazeneca shares fall after it warns that coronavirus epidemic will hit business for ‘up to a few months’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:48 GMT, 14 February 2020 | Updated: 08:48 GMT, 16 February 2020 Astrazeneca shares fell after it warned that the coronavirus epidemic will hit the business for ‘up to … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE KILLING IN THE CONSULATE by Jonathan Rugman (Simon & Schuster £20, 368pp) The ripples from the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi just over a year ago never cease — and nor should they, given what an appalling affront to humanity and to press freedom his brutal killing was. The … Read more
Factory orders hit six-month high amid ‘early signs’ of a turnaround as political certainty improves By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 20 February 2020 Factory orders hit a six-month high in February amid ‘early signs’ of a turnaround. The monthly trends survey by the … Read more
Boris Johnson hit by £10bn pension tax backlash as savers urge the Prime Minister and his Chancellor not to raid their retirement pots Treasury to be planning to cut pensions tax relief to 20 per cent for all workers These savers would effectively be taxed twice on their retirement income Institute for Fiscal Studies warned … Read more
From dentists to diggers, from Bond to Bicester Village, the wider impact of the coronavirus crisis is only now beginning to be felt. With parts of China, the world’s second largest economy, still effectively closed for business, industries across the world that rely on the country to manufacture their products or parts are being hit … Read more
Retail giant Marks & Spencer has been hit by a backlash over its plan to stop distributing paper shopping vouchers to thousands of small shareholders from the end of the month. Under a major shake-up, which will affect around half of the company’s legion of loyal small investors, the group is scrapping paper vouchers and … Read more
A string of housebuilders hit record highs after HSBC tipped the sector as the latest winner from Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory. In a bullish note, analysts upgraded profit and dividend forecasts as it said the Tory party’s 80-seat majority has ‘brought the prospect of a final settlement of Brexit closer and unleashed pent-up demand … Read more
Leiden University computer algorithm spots ELEVEN asteroids that could hit Earth triggering ‘unprecedented devastation’ — but were ‘MISSED by NASA software’ Researchers used a supercomputer to model the solar system over 10,000 years Within this model, they next simulated asteroids that would eventually hit Earth The library of fake hazards was used to train an … Read more