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Euro falls as European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi hints at rate cut and changes to QE
Dovish coos from European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi has sent the euro low against the dollar…again.
11 first impressions that matter
Your first words come long after you’ve already made your first impression.
Sky turns to Q for new box of tricks
Sky has unveiled a new product that will mean YouTube and Vevo music clips can be screened alongside live Premier League football games and hit shows, such as Game of Thrones.
Royal Mail shares jump as it reveals savings
Shares in Royal Mail jumped four per cent to 472.4p after its first-half results showed it’s making headway as it accelerated its cost cutting programme and says the outlook for letters and parcels markets remains unchanged.
HBOS’s former bosses wait to learn their fate
Delayed report into near collapse will feature review of whether sufficient sanction was taken against executives
Wind & solar farms must pay their true costs, energy secretary Amber Rudd vows
Amber Rudd says wind and solar must bear the burden of dealing with their intermittency and says UK could double its offshore wind capacity if costs come down
Nest’s learning thermostat finally understands your boiler
Nest Labs has announced a new generation of its ‘learning’ thermostat, which it says will be able to solve one of the most profound problems in all of UK DIY: your boiler.
Engineers are urging UK government to speed up in a space race worth up to £40bn
The value of the British space industry could rocket to £40bn in the next 15 years, creating 100,000 new jobs in the process, but the government risks holding the sector back with restrictive regulations and insufficient investment, a report out today has warned.
‘National living wage’ will push up wages at more than half of employers
Increase in minimum hourly wage to £7.20 from April 2016 will see many employers seek to make savings through increased productivity, survey finds
FTSE posts biggest rise in six weeks, as confidence in economic outlook rebounds
The FTSE 100 jumps by almost 2pc as defence stocks rally after France stepped up its military response to Friday’s attacks in Paris.
Aldi and Lidl combined now account for 10 per cent of UK grocery market
Budget supermarkets Aldi and Lidl now account for 10 per cent of all spend on the British grocery market for the first time since they launched in the country
UK inflation forecast to remain negative
Consumer prices index (CPI) has been dragged down by tumbling global commodity prices and the effects of a strong pound
Liberty Global snaps up Cable & Wireless in £3.5bn deal
Liberty Global announces £3.5bn deal to buy London-listed cable provider as billionaire John Malone plans further expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Savers to take £50m hit as NS&I cuts rates
More than 400,000 savers suffered a sharp fall in the level of interest they receive on their National Savings & Investments funds from yesterday, with experts warning that the rest of the industry was sure to follow suit.
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