Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …
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Royal Mail has announced stamp costs are likely be raised again due to a post-lockdown slowdown and the surging costs of energy and fuel. The announcement comes on the heels of the last stamp price hike that went into effect on April 4. The postal service blamed ‘significant headwinds’ and …
Read More »Melissa bolsters postal partnerships
Melissa, a provider of global data quality and address management solutions, is expanding its postal partnerships, which include the United States Postal Service (USPS), Canada Post, Royal Mail, and now Austria Post. As licensees to these and other country-specific address data sets, Melissa offers retailers and marketers a single source …
Read More »Royal Bank CEO calls for ‘orderly’ climate transition amid criticism
Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Namoks, left, Madeek, centre, and Gisdywa traveled to confront and protest Royal Bank of Canada’s funding of Coastal GasLink pipeline and other fossil fuel investments in Toronto on April 7.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press An ambitious climate plan to cut emissions and sell cleaner energy to the world “could …
Read More »All the key financial changes affecting millions of people in April
April is a month of financial change bringing with it energy price hikes, a rise to benefits delivered by both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), increases to the National Living Wage, Council Tax and National Insurance Contribution deductions. But there’s a lot …
Read More »Royal Mail, Persimmon buck otherwise weak FTSE 100
The U.K.’s postal delivery service was outshining the FTSE 100 index on Thursday, after Royal Mail reported better-than-expected results, with home builders also rising, though energy companies were tugging at the downside as oil prices fell. The FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.48% dipped 0.2% to 7,629, losing around 1% for …
Read More »AstraZeneca and ASML lead European stocks on a rebound after Wall-Street induced rout
European stocks joined in on a global bounce on Wednesday, as pressure on bond yields eased somewhat and investors went hunting for beaten-down names. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.13% rose nearly 0.8% to 455.87, after a 2% drop on Tuesday, which was the biggest percentage decline since July …
Read More »Extreme E And AFC Energy Team Up For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power
Photo: AFC Energy Mostly because its inaugural season is yet to be run, I don’t particularly follow Extreme E. But the machines are cool and the series’ conceit is fresh. An announcement that the series will bring fuel cell-based battery charging infrastructure everywhere the series travels has me intrigued. AFC …
Read More »The Pheonix Works is acquired by Liberty Global helping accelerate expansion
Image: The Phoenix Works. Solar PV, battery storage and end-to-end EV charging company The Phoenix Works has been acquired by Liberty Global. The move follows the company’s previous parent company Retig going into administration in September. Following this, energy company Tonik Energy which was also owned by the company, went …
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