Eurostar strike threat during Olympics averted
The threat of strike action on the Eurostar during the Paris Olympics has been averted following intense negotiations. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said Eurostar had agreed to…
The threat of strike action on the Eurostar during the Paris Olympics has been averted following intense negotiations. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said Eurostar had agreed to…
Metro Bank is reportedly reviving a plan to sell a multibillion-pound chunk of its mortgage book after being rescued from potential collapse last year. The high street lender has hired…
Property developer British Land and Australia’s largest pension fund have inked a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with King’s College London to build a science and technology centre in London’s…
Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister, has said that economic growth will be the “obsession” of his new government. His focus on growth reflects the fact that the economy has…
Activist investor Milkwood Capital has been condemned by an investment trust it is targeting for an attempt to “thwart” its pursuit to shutter. Downing Strategic Micro-Cap, which invests in small…
The investment trust sector has called for the incoming Labour government to scrap “misleading” cost disclosure rules on the sector that it says are hampering its performance. Legacy EU regulations…
Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge stemming from two 737 Max crashes that resulted in the deaths of 346 people, the US Department of Justice (DoJ)…
Wincanton slipped into the red for the first time in more than 20 years in the year leading up to it being taken private by the logistics giant GXO, according…
Former BP chief executive Bernard Looney is reportedly plotting a comeback in Abu Dhabi after he was dismissed last year over past relationships with colleagues. The Irishman has met with…
In 1962 president Charles De Gaulle expressed his frustration at the difficulties facing anyone governing France: “How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese,” he lamented. Today’s…