Eurozone economy slows as Germany weakness continues August 5, 2019 Growth in the Eurozone economy softened in July as German output fell to a six-year low and the manufacturing sector continued to struggle, a closely-watched survey has shown. Read more: German investors grow gloomier over Iran and trade tensions Yet the area’s services sector posted solid growth as employment grew and pay rose, highlighting a [...]
This Labour party does not deserve your support, however tactical or temporary you consider it to be December 12, 2019 Today you’ll have the opportunity to vote in the most consequential election for 40 years. You’ll have your own motivations and concerns, your own views on what constitutes a good result. Maybe one party’s victory is something you hope for, maybe it’s something you dread. For a lot of readers, the outcome may not be [...]
Restaurants may be reopening but delivery kits are here to stay April 9, 2021 It’s just days until we’re allowed to sit outside and eat a socially distanced meal with people from one other household – a concept that’s far more appealing than that sentence might suggest. But that doesn’t mean the home delivery restaurant-in-a-box revolution is over. With top chefs and restaurants from across the culinary spectrum now [...]
No more denial, Hezbollah has always been a terrorist group February 28, 2019 It is not often that a self-styled “Party of God” makes political waves in the UK. After all, this is the country where Alastair Campbell famously told Tony Blair “we don’t do God” in response to the then Prime Minister’s attempts to discuss his faith in public. But that is what happened this week, with [...]
US ambassador says letting Huawei access the UK’s 5G network would be like ‘letting a kleptomaniac into your house’ June 25, 2019 US ambassador Woody Johnson took an apparent swipe at Chinese tech firm Huawei today, saying that inviting the company into key sectors of the UK’s economy would be “like letting a kleptomaniac into your house”. “If we let untrustworthy countries in the heart of our economies, and infrastructure, what could they do? We have to [...]
Follow the yellow brick road: the investment case for gold February 19, 2020 Investing can often feel like a rollercoaster, with the value of stock investments rising and falling sharply based on breaking news and geopolitical events. Certainly, the last few months may have felt bumpy. From the build-up to the UK General Election in December, to the tit-for-tat missile volleys between the US and Iran, to the outbreak [...]
Ukraine corruption investigators probe gas firm – but not Hunter Biden September 27, 2019 Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau has said changes to a Ukrainian energy firm’s board in May 2014, when Democrat Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden joined, are not under investigation. In a statement the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) revealed that changes to the board at that time, which saw the son of former vice-president Joe Biden and other foreign [...]
City watchdog hands out second largest ever money laundering fine as Standard Chartered pays $1.1bn to settle transatlantic probe April 9, 2019 The City watchdog has dished out its second largest anti-money laundering fine as part of a transatlantic probe into Standard Chartered. The bank has agreed to pay a total of $1.1bn (£842m) to settle with US authorities and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over claims it breached sanctions against Iran. Read more: Standard Chartered [...]
City watchdog hands out second largest ever money laundering fine as Standard Chartered pays $1.1bn to settle transatlantic probe April 9, 2019 The City watchdog has dished out its second largest anti-money laundering fine as part of a transatlantic probe into Standard Chartered. The bank has agreed to pay a total of $1.1bn (£842m) to settle with US authorities and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over claims it breached sanctions against Iran. Read more: Standard Chartered [...]
Hackers target UN and IMF using ‘sophisticated’ cyber attacks February 27, 2019 Cyber attackers have ramped up the power and complexity of their efforts, targeting crucial international bodies including the United Nations, US state department and International Monetary Fund, a newly-released report has found. Analysis by Netscout, a network security and business analytics solutions firm, found that so-called distributed denial-of-service (Ddos) attacks against the international affairs sector [...]