businessfast

RISHI Sunak has summoned NHS chiefs for crisis talks today amid the worst ever waits for ambulance patients to be handed to A&E. The PM called a rare Saturday summit to thrash out easing strains on the buckling NHS. Several...

Full story: US jobs market ends 2022 on a highDominic RusheThe US jobs market ended 2022 on a high note, adding another 223,000 jobs in December, the department of labor reported on Friday. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%, back...

When Stewart Langston turns 56 this year, he will retire from the National Health Service alongside his wife Kay — five years earlier than some of their peers and over a decade before their state pensions are payable. A recent...

The average UK house price fell for the fourth month in a row in December, according to Halifax, with experts expecting a further slowdown amid a long recession.Property values decreased by 1.5% in December, the lender’s monthly index revealed, after...

UK house prices have dropped for the fourth consecutive month as rising borrowing costs hit household finances, according to data published on Friday.Average house prices fell 1.5 per cent between November and December, said mortgage provider Halifax. The decline marks...

TSB and Nationwide are cutting interest rates across their fixed-rate mortgage deals, underlining lenders’ appetite for new mortgage business even after sharp rises in the Bank of England’s main interest rate over recent months.Rates on TSB’s five-year fixed rate mortgages...

Buy or Sell: Stock ideas by experts for January 06, 2023 - The Economic Times Video | ET NowET Now | 06 Jan 2023, 09:16 AM ISTET Now spoke to various experts and here's what they have to recommend for...

Traders on the floor of the NYSE, June 24, 2022.Source: NYSETraders who shorted stocks won big in 2022, according to S3 Partners.Shorted stocks had a return of 30.8% in 2022, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, the firm's managing director of predictive analytics....

By Market Capitalisation. Net Sales. Net Profit. Total Assets. Excise. Other Income. Raw Materials. Power & Fuel. Employee Cost. PBDIT. Interest. Tax. EPS. Investments. Sundry Debtors. Cash/Bank. Inventory. Debt. Contingent Liabilities. Screen Crit Abrasives Aerospace & Defence Agriculture Air Conditioners...

By Market Capitalisation. Net Sales. Net Profit. Total Assets. Excise. Other Income. Raw Materials. Power & Fuel. Employee Cost. PBDIT. Interest. Tax. EPS. Investments. Sundry Debtors. Cash/Bank. Inventory. Debt. Contingent Liabilities. Screen Crit Abrasives Aerospace & Defence Agriculture Air Conditioners...

On-chain data shows the trading dominance of altcoins is now more than 50%; here’s what this may mean for Bitcoin. Altcoin Trading Dominance Has Increased To More Than 50% As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, sustainable...

British households struggling with the cost of living crisis will draw some comfort this winter from the fact government subsidies are taking some of the edge off eye-watering energy bills.But large energy suppliers and fuel poverty campaigners are urging ministers...

Standard Chartered shares surge on report of takeover interestStandard Chartered has surged to the top of the FTSE 100 leaderboard, spurred by reports of takeover interest in the bank.They jumped as much as 20%, following a report that First Abu...

As her 40-year central banking career comes to a close, Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George is advising her colleagues to stay tough in their efforts to stamp out runaway inflation.George said Thursday that she thinks the Fed should...

The writer is professor of finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance and author of ‘China’s Guaranteed Bubble’A significant change is on the cards for China’s real estate sector in 2023, according to reports from the country’s recent Central...

The scale of the rise of “generation rent” has been laid bare by the 2021 census that reveals the number of households renting has more than doubled in the last two decades in England and Wales, as home ownership rates...

Outflows from equity funds reached £6.3bn in 2022, the lowest figure since 2014, with three quarters of the total coming during Q3 2022. READ SOURCE...

Last June, when Julia Woodward decided to sell her five-bedroom house in Beaconsfield, the Buckinghamshire market town popular with London commuters, agents advised her to do it off market — a practice common to achieve the best price when a...

Commercial airlines in the U.S. have returned to profitability in 2022, with EBITDA for the Big Four carriers (American, United, Delta and Southwest) approaching 2019 levels in the second and third quarters. Dallas, Texas-based Southwest became the first major U.S....

Buy or Sell: Stock ideas by experts for January 05, 2023 - The Economic Times Video | ET NowET Now | 05 Jan 2023, 09:02 AM ISTET Now spoke to various experts and here's what they have to recommend for...

Alibaba has faced growth challenges amid regulatory tightening on China's domestic technology sector and a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. But analysts think the e-commerce giant's growth could pick up through the rest of 2022.Kuang Da | Jiemian News...

The UK needs a “war effort” to boost energy efficiency and rapidly insulate millions of homes nationwide in order to cut household bills and carbon emissions, a cross-party group of MPs has said.In a report on Thursday, the House of...

At a time when the crypto market is seeing low prices, another meme coin called BONK has entered the race. This coin, unlike its predecessors, is on the Solana blockchain and is now cementing itself as the most successful meme...

Excessive weight can be a challenge for people while doing daily tasks. Gaining weight can be caused by stress, eating disorders, genetics, and not doing any activities. Most of the people with the developing technology, do not work at jobs...

British household energy bills are set to fall lower than previously expected in 2023, dropping below the level of the government’s price guarantee in the second half of the year. Two of the UK’s most respected energy sector forecasters on...

Only part of the plunge in Tesla’s stock market value can be pinned on Elon Musk’s misadventure with Twitter. Yes, selling a few tens of billions of dollars-worth of Tesla stock – far more than he signalled at the outset...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureClosing summaryJeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, told business leaders in a meeting that the current level of energy support is “unsustainably expensive” and that the current £18bn scheme was...

Vanguard maintained its lead in the top ten funds category, holding six of the seven top spots on the open-ended list Just three active funds, including Fundsmith, made the cut. The other two open-ended funds were: Royal London Short Term...

Going by the name Cooper Morgenthau, the former chief financial officer on Tuesday pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in front of the U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan federal court. Ex-CFO Committed Crimes and Sentence According to Authorities,...

It gets earlier every year. Christmas is barely over, the new year hangover is still fresh in the head and already we’re into the first UK steel bailout story of 2023.The steel sector asking for support feels less an annual...