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Weary Wall Street cheers improved consumer confidence

Weary Wall Street cheers improved consumer confidence

By Lawrence Delevingne and Amanda Cooper (Reuters) -Global stock markets rose on Wednesday, as U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in D..

Engie warns of hit from windfall levies, Belgian nuclear provisions

Engie warns of hit from windfall levies, Belgian nuclear provisions

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Engie warned on Tuesday of an earnings hit from European Union approved windfall levies and lar..

Oil prices rise on U.S. drawdown, Chinese fears weigh

Oil prices rise on U.S. drawdown, Chinese fears weigh

By Shadia Nasralla and Rowena Edwards LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose by more than 2% on Wednesday after data suggested a larger tha..

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

  By John Wareing, Legal Security Consultant, Red Helix The legal sector has seen rapid digitalisation over recent years, partly ..

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

  39% of SMEs have increased their prices over the past 12 months Just 13% of small/medium businesses have not yet had to make a..

Analysis-Russian gold removed from some Western funds after Ukraine

Analysis-Russian gold removed from some Western funds after Ukraine

By Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) – Hidden inside high-security bank vaults in London, Zurich and New York, billions of dollars&#..

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

  And only 38% business leaders rate their decarbonisation efforts so far as very successful New European report shows that lac..

SpaceX rocket sends first global water survey mission into orbit

SpaceX rocket sends first global water survey mission into orbit

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) -A SpaceX rocket blasted off early on Friday carrying a U.S.-French satellite designed t..

Britain’s Purplebricks to cut more than 10% of jobs – The Times

Britain’s Purplebricks to cut more than 10% of jobs – The Times

(Reuters) – Purplebricks Group PLC, Britain’s biggest online-only real estate agency, will cut more than 10% of its workfo..

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

  WorkLife by OpenMoney, the employee benefits platform, has partnered with ShinyMind and Wellness Cloud to help employers offer ..

EU opens antitrust probe into Broadcom’s $61 billion VMware bid

EU opens antitrust probe into Broadcom’s $61 billion VMware bid

PARIS (Reuters) -European antitrust regulators have opened an in-depth investigation into U.S. chipmaker Broadcom’s proposed $61..

HAPPY LINEN COMPANY RAISES MORE THAN £10,000 FOR ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CHARITY

HAPPY LINEN COMPANY RAISES MORE THAN £10,000 FOR ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CHARITY

  Happy Linen Company has continued their partnership with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity for a second year, raisi..

SMEs striving for stability following Autumn Statement announcement

SMEs striving for stability following Autumn Statement announcement

  Entrepreneurs should pay closer attention to how they pay themselves following the changes  Following the Autumn Statement deli..

Survey of 1,100 Senior Business Leaders in the UK by B2B Media Brand Raconteur Reveals Complex Decision-Making Landscape

Survey of 1,100 Senior Business Leaders in the UK by B2B Media Brand Raconteur Reveals Complex Decision-Making Landscape

  94% of businesses have more than 6 people involved in buying decisions 53% consult with 11 or more decision-makers 1 in 5 (21%)..

New research by Raconteur reveals HR is vital to business purchasing decisions

New research by Raconteur reveals HR is vital to business purchasing decisions

  One in five business leaders say at least 16 people are now involved in making purchasing decisions, with 68% of finance execut..

Expert Helps Clients Create Killer Pitches that ‘Pay and Slay’

Expert Helps Clients Create Killer Pitches that ‘Pay and Slay’

  Elevator pitches, sales pitches, media pitches and investor pitches that “convert conversations into currency” don’t happen by ..

Learn How 16 Disruptors are Creating Change for the Better

Learn How 16 Disruptors are Creating Change for the Better

  Success Secrets of Disrupters provides 16 unique perspectives from professionals who’ve become bona fide gamechangers in their ..

40 Lessons for Thriving in These Challenging Times

40 Lessons for Thriving in These Challenging Times

  The world is at a juncture, and we need to rethink our approach, cautions writer and journalist Nadia Michel. Geopolitics are s..

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

  With the landscape of an unprecedented labour shortage, a new nationwide poll has revealed that businesses that don’t publish salari..

Milestone 50,000 users registered and £3million investment gained in pet care app’s first nine months

Milestone 50,000 users registered and £3million investment gained in pet care app’s first nine months

    A start-up pet care app which launched in March this year has reached a milestone 50,000 registered pet owners committed to i..

IMPRESSION ADDS TWO SENIOR HIRES TO BOLSTER ITS NEW PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND L&D OFFERING

IMPRESSION ADDS TWO SENIOR HIRES TO BOLSTER ITS NEW PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND L&D OFFERING

  Nottingham and London-based digital marketing agency, Impression has ended 2022 with the appointments of two new senior hires t..

UK Government helps IT company break into Africa with £900k UKEF support

UK Government helps IT company break into Africa with £900k UKEF support

    UKEF’s guarantee has given a boost to exporting ambitions of a Stockport-based technology company   Vesper Technologies (Ves..

Lecanemab – Historical moment for Alzheimer’s treatment

Lecanemab – Historical moment for Alzheimer’s treatment

  Re:Cognition Health proud to deliver lecanemab clinical trial Re:Cognition Health’s Brain and Mind Experts are excited to be ..

FSC reinvests in Spanish consumer finance specialist Ufasa

FSC reinvests in Spanish consumer finance specialist Ufasa

    – European financial services specialist signs capital increase to drive further growth – FSC Partner Martin Rauchenwald..

Ciphr increases its cloud software offering on G-Cloud 13 framework

Ciphr increases its cloud software offering on G-Cloud 13 framework

      People management software provider Ciphr has doubled its number of listings on the government’s public sector di..

World’s first health-focused business school offers Exec Ed course on Health Innovation

World’s first health-focused business school offers Exec Ed course on Health Innovation

  UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), the world’s first business school dedicated to health, will be launching an excit..

How business pioneers are shaping the change needed for our planet

How business pioneers are shaping the change needed for our planet

  The central consequence of man-made climate change: the earth is getting warmer and warmer. As a result, among other things, si..

Top trends we can expect to see in digital finance over the next 10 years

Top trends we can expect to see in digital finance over the next 10 years

  Digital banking has become a fundamental requisite for most banks and their digitally savvy consumers. It is believed that by 2..

Bank of England raises rates to 3.5%, says inflation has peaked

Bank of England raises rates to 3.5%, says inflation has peaked

(This Dec. 15 story has been corrected to change Robert Dishner’s location to London from Chicago in paragraph 33) LONDON (Reute..

Take Five: Keeping the lights on

Take Five: Keeping the lights on

(Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will be the last of the major central banks to hold a policy meeting this year, and policy-makers ..

No Santa rally for markets as central banks dampen peak rate hopes

No Santa rally for markets as central banks dampen peak rate hopes

By Naomi Rovnick and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) -Forget a year-end rally in financial markets. The message from major central b..

Marketmind: Hawk-eyed

Marketmind: Hawk-eyed

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors have hunkered down with their risk-off hat on, af..

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: WORLD LEADING COACHES, TRAINERS AND PRACTITIONERS BACK PERFORMANCE BRAND BRINGING NEW MUSCLE TO PROFESSIONAL SPORT

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: WORLD LEADING COACHES, TRAINERS AND PRACTITIONERS BACK PERFORMANCE BRAND BRINGING NEW MUSCLE TO PROFESSIONAL SPORT

  A collection of world leading elite sport coaches and practitioners have given a resounding stamp of approval, following an exc..

BoE raises rates again as investors look towards end of hikes

BoE raises rates again as investors look towards end of hikes

By David Milliken and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a further half-percentage point on ..

Electric vehicles confront the leap to the mass market

Electric vehicles confront the leap to the mass market

By Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) – The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc and rival electric ..

Swiss National Bank says inflation battle not yet won

Swiss National Bank says inflation battle not yet won

By John Revill and Michael Shields BERN (Reuters) – Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan said it was too early to “s..

Gas will remain expensive for decades – and renewables lucrative

Gas will remain expensive for decades – and renewables lucrative

  The Russian supply freeze is driving up gas prices, forcing Germany to switch to LNG, more expensive liquefied natural gas. Adm..