Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - The government's furlough scheme has been extended to the end of April 2021, the Chancellor announced on Thursday, with the government continuing to contribute 80% towards wages. Read More
Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Michel Barnier has said that "good progress" has been made on securing a trade deal with the UK, despite outstanding issues remaining. Read More
Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - The Bank of England left monetary policy unchanged at ratesetters' last meeting of 2020 and said it would take whatever action was needed in an unusually uncertain time for the econ... Read More
Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Lloyd's, the world's biggest insurance market, said it would no longer invest in fossil fuel projects from January 2022 and would pull insurance on existing investments by 2030. . Read More
Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Oil prices have risen after US inventories came in lower than expected, boosting the market. Read More
Thursday 17 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - New car registrations tumbled across the European Union in November, industry data showed on Thursday, as fresh restrictions to contain Covid-19 dented demand. Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Facebook is set to shift all its UK users into privacy agreements with its corporate headquarters in California and thus out of the stricter EU laws which are binding on its Irish u... Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - The president of the European Commission raised hopes of a Brexit trade deal on Wednesday but the UK urged caution as talks continued. Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Economic activity in the UK picked up slightly at the end of 2020, despite the evident headwinds from Covid-19 and Brexit, led by an expansion in factory sector activity, the result... Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - UK house prices jumped in October, official data showed on Tuesday, as pent-up demand and the stamp duty holiday boosted the market. Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Eurozone banks can start paying dividends again from the start of 2021, the European Central Bank has said, but only under strict limitations. Read More
Wednesday 16 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - UK inflation slowed sharply in November as the price of clothing, food and non-alcoholic drinks declined, with Black Friday playing its part, according to figures released on Wednes... Read More
Tuesday 15 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Hopes were growing on Tuesday that Washington could be close to agreeing pandemic relief worth $748bn after a compromise package of fiscal measures was presented by a group of bipar... Read More
Tuesday 15 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - The UK's new Online Safety Bill looks to block illegal and harmful content on the web. Read More
Tuesday 15 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - China's post-pandemic economic recovery continued into November, the latest official data showed on Tuesday. Read More
Tuesday 15 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - The UK unemployment rate ticked higher in October while redundancies rose to a record high as the coronavirus pandemic continued to take its toll. Read More
Monday 14 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - London will move into the strictest tier 3 category for Covid-19 restrictions from midnight on Wednesday morning to combat a new form of the virus, the health secretary told MPs. Read More
Monday 14 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - One of the world's top three credit rating agencies said a 'no deal' Brexit could see its rating for the UK's sovereign debt come under pressure should it complicate the outlook for... Read More
Monday 14 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Google suffered a global outage on Monday, with Gmail, Google calendar, YouTube, Maps and Documents all affected. Read More
Monday 14 Dec 2020
(Sharecast News) - Eurozone industrial production continued to strengthen in October, official data published on Monday showed, despite a resurgence of Covid-19 cases across the continent. Read More
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