Property market’s first annual price fall in eight years as coronavirus bites
Coronavirus and lockdown meant house prices in June fell year-on-year for the first time since December 2012, new data show....
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Tesla pays Elon Musk $1m to insure his own board against lawsuits
Tesla is paying Elon Musk almost $1m to insure the board of directors against lawsuits for three months. The unusual...
My son may only be two, but the race is on to plan his route to public school
Money & Daddy is a weekly column about parental finances, published on Wednesday mornings. Got a topic or problem you...
Oil titans Shell and BP try to go green
In the last two weeks, both BP and Shell have announced that they are writing down the value of their...
Demand for new-build homes surges as first-time buyers are cut out of the market by lenders
Lenders fear the forecast falls in house prices will quickly lead highly leveraged buyers into negative equity. Nationwide, for example, has increased...
We need relevant fixes, yet Boris looks instead to Franklin D Roosevelt for solutions
The Great Depression was caused by a stock market crash and parallel banking crisis in which millions lost their savings....
EasyJet cuts 5,000 jobs and pulls out of Stansted, Southend and Newcastle
EasyJet said it had started consultations with staff about who would lose their jobs. Johan Lundgren, chief executive, said: “These...
Cheese prices swing wildly as lockdown upends supply
The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on one corner of global trade: the wholesale price for cheddar on the Chicago...
No place for Terry Smith or Nick Train on Hargreaves’ revamped best-buy list
Hargreaves Lansdown has revamped its fund recommendations list – but has controversially left out highly regarded managers Terry Smith and Nick Train....
The City will flourish as it liberates itself from Brussels
Rewind two years, and that would have been a catastrophe for the City. The UK’s banks, insurers and fund managers...
