Even the greatest optimist will draw cold comfort from the April-to-June data from the Paris-based OECD, which places Britain firmly at the bottom of output tables for the G7 biggest economies in the second quarter. The UK’s performance is so much worse than that of the country’s major competitors that it verges on embarrassment, at … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Coronavirus, the new go-to excuse for why businesses can’t possibly provide customers with basic customer service By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:27 BST, 25 August 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 25 August 2020 With so many people still working from home, I often receive phone calls from numbers I don’t … Read more
Kerry Katona poked fun at her BFF Victoria Rose’s recent engagement to Danny Cipriani in a new interview. The reality star, 39, joked she ‘knows a great lawyer’ in case their relationship doesn’t work out after her three failed marriages to Brian McFadden, Mark Croft and the late George Kay. Former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry, who … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: The idea of BT, Britain’s national telecoms company, hiding behind closed doors in private equity ownership ought to be anathema By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 24 August 2020 | Updated: 22:35 BST, 24 August 2020 When seasoned industrialist Jan du Plessis took the reins as chairman of BT … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: If pandemic’s patterns of job losses, work and childcare become set, women’s long-term earnings and career prospects will suffer By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 August 2020 Decades of progress made by women in the workplace could unravel in the pandemic … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: Eventually inflation will come through, interest rates will shoot up – and bond investors lose a packet By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 Deflation or inflation? It can’t be both and it matters massively to all of us which … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Will investors get justice for Neil Woodford’s faliures? Investigation has been as transparent as Kim Jong Un’s North Korea By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 Over the past year, I’ve written 60 articles that refer to the busted … Read more
Apple, which is the world’s most valuable company after breaking through the $2trillion mark, is also worth more than the value of all companies listed on the FTSE 100 index. That means the iPhone maker, which in sterling terms has a market cap of £1.5trillion, is worth 20 times more than Unilever and Astrazeneca, the … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: Supermarkets have proved remarkably resilient during coronavirus lockdown and hopefully will adjust again to the new normal By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 20 August 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 20 August 2020 One of the many unexpected superstars of lockdown were supermarkets and their staff. From the first … Read more
The US stock markets have staged a stunning recovery in the face of the coronavirus. The obvious questions are: Why? And: is it too good to be true? There are two drivers of the rebound – Big Tech and the Mighty Fed. Central bank the Federal Reserve has been providing trillions of dollars of support … Read more