The FTSE 100 fell in London today after the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted that a three-month lockdown might result in the UK’s biggest economic slump for 300 years.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing pressure to ease the lockdown and reopen schools as the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths in the country continues to fall. Germany reported 2,537 new cases today marking the third consecutive day of decline. The country saw 4,133 new diagnoses on Saturday and 2,821 on Sunday with the … Read more
Housing market expected to fall by up to a sixth as thousands of Britons lose their jobs By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 01:01 BST, 13 April 2020 | Updated: 01:01 BST, 13 April 2020 The housing market is expected to fall by up to a sixth as thousands of Britons lose their … Read more
RICHARD KAY: Did Boris Johnson fall victim to the No10 ‘machismo culture’? By Richard Kay for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 23:40 BST, 10 April 2020 The hardest part must be accepting the sympathy, those reassuring messages that have flooded in, while having to acknowledge that the exterior he … Read more
On a Saturday in February three years ago, Coleen Greenwood should have married her sweetheart in a no-expense-spared ceremony at a stately home in the north-east of England. James Scott, her fiancée, had arranged it all. Months earlier, he had romantically presented her with a little black book headed ‘Coleen Scott Wedding Diary’. Inside it … Read more
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern says her country is winning the battle against coronavirus after just 29 new cases were added to the tally today. Australia and New Zealand have both seen falling infection rates after closing their borders by March 20 – something Britain has still not done. Ardern hailed New Zealanders for … Read more
Falling wholesale prices finally passed on to households as cheapest energy tariffs fall to the lowest levels in more than three years The cheapest energy tariffs have fallen by an average of £32, data reveals This brings the average price to the lowest level in over three years Reason for the drop in prices is … Read more
Older people and those with underlying conditions are at greatest risk of dying of coronavirus – but otherwise healthy young people are getting severely ill and even dying of the disease. And the ill fates of these young coronavirus patients may be written into their DNA, some scientists suspect. Some 80 percent of people who … Read more
The Himalayas are visible in parts of India 125 miles away for the first time in 30 years after coronavirus saw pollution levels drop across the country The Asian mountain range can now be seen more than 125 miles away in the Jalandhar district of Punjab Residents say the air has cleared because of the country’s … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Tullow Oil shares slump another 10.2% a week after it ousted chief exec, slashed production forecasts and cancelled dividend By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 A dire couple of months for Tullow Oil has left the company’s shares on … Read more