The FTSE 350 crept up 1pc last week whilst European and American markets fluctuated. Oil prices remained on the back foot at the end of a volatile week, staying below $40 (£31.20) per barrel, an important threshold for both oil stocks and major oil producing countries. Gold prices only shone intermittently …
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“Second hand retail sites and apps have exploded over lockdown and we should thank younger shoppers for that,” says Mary-Leigh Bliss, a fashion analyst at YPlulse. “There have been enormous spikes in traffic and activity to sites like Depop during this pandemic. For young people growing up in the shadow …
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Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail’s Medway Mail Centre By Paul Lee 14 September 2020 Postal workers at Medway Mail Centre are still concerned after three postal workers tested positive for coronavirus, despite Royal Mail’s claim to have cleaned the delivery office. Only opened in 2012, …
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UK firms announce hundreds of thousands of redundancies By Barry Mason 14 September 2020 Hundreds of thousands of workers are being laid off in the UK, as corporations impose restructuring programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, the BBC revealed that 3,672 employers had given notice of more than …
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Hedge funds caught out by Royal Mail’s share worth rally as firm surprises market with efficiency throughout coronavirus By Jamie Nimmo, Monetary Mail On Sunday Printed: 21:50 BST, 12 September 2020 | Up to date: 22:26 BST, 12 September 2020 Hedge funds have been caught out by Royal Mail’s share …
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Prince Andrew ‘is airbrushed out of Prince Philip’s 100th birthday celebrations’: Scandal-hit royal ‘won’t be invited to major events and won’t feature in photo exhibition’ Andrew, 60, is reportedly not being invited to major events for the milestone Prince Philip is due to turn 100 next June but allegedly won’t …
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She said she wanted photographs that captured a ‘snapshot of life during lockdown’. And that’s exactly what the Duchess of Cambridge has amassed. Hold Still, a photography initiative launched by Kate with the National Portrait Gallery, attracted more than 31,000 entries from members of the public in just six weeks. …
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The devastating impact of the lockdown on the nation’s health is laid bare tonight. Shocking figures reveal that admissions for seven deadly non-coronavirus conditions between March and June fell by more than 173,000 on the previous year. The NHS Digital data for England shows there were nearly 6,000 fewer admissions …
Read More »A Czech billionaire is sitting on paper profits of almost £100 million having piled into Royal Mail shares at the height of the pandemic. Daniel Kretinsky started building his stake in the spring, when shares in the company hit record lows. Between March and July, the billionaire known as the …
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Clothes and drinks are among the most popular items Britons ordered online during lockdown, new research suggests. More than six in 10 (64%) of UK adults have received deliveries to update their wardrobe since March 23 – and 43% have bought soft drinks, wine or beer, according to figures from …
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