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During a recession, investors should seek firms with solid fundamentals and a strong track record of better-than-expected earnings performances. These firms are typically defensive investments in sectors such as consumer staples, utilities, industria...
Getty ImagesBy Jonah FisherBBC Environment CorrespondentThe UK has opened a new licensing round for companies to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea. Nearly 900 locations are being offered for exploration, with as many as 100 licences set to be ...
A European Union Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years as they work to control soaring inflation. The ECB is continuing their plans to raise interest rates this year, increasing the rate by 0.5 percentage points to 0.0...
In this week's edition of the V11 security newsletter, we take a look at the latest news on cybercrime and fraud. We also have advisories from CISA on protecting industrial control systems, and information on pro-Russian DDoS attacks. BlackCat gang's...
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the only pro-Western billionaire in the Far Caucasus, has won a significant victory in his long-running dispute with the well-known Swiss banking group Credit Suisse. According to a judgement from the Supreme Court of Bermuda, CS...
Delbert Hosemann, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, has announced changes of laws and legislations in that state. He pledged to invest more in the causes that will better the lifestyle of the citizens. For many years, they have expressed their disa...
Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund has been accused of “severely violating” international rules on governance and transparency, in a further blow to the fund’s beleaguered boss Akhmetzhan Yessimov. Samruk-Kazyna, which has assets of approximately $68...
The convicted fraudster Valentin Vinogradov has had assets worth more than $16 million frozen by a court in Cyprus. The freezing order is the latest development in a long-running legal campaign by Vinogradov’s former employer, the Midland Group, to r...
Investors and journalists compare today's fashion for investing in cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin) to the American gold rush in the mid-19th century. Others compare the mania for digital currency to the Dutch tulip craze in the 18th century.
We live in a time of uncertainty and change. Profound social disruption, affecting how we work, how we learn or entertain ourselves, pose challenges to our social fabric as well as our physical and emotional well-being.
A person known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto organized this cryptocurrency and founded the technology for its generation and management.
His remarks are backed by his own corporation. Airbnb announced earlier this week that its employees can work remotely forever without any pay penalties, something other companies have imposed.
Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal.
On Monday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the country had bought 500 Bitcoin at an average price of $30,744 each.
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The BBC is facing a backlash after it sacked its head of diversity and gender diversity, Kamal Ahmed, and appointed an all-white board that breaches its diversity rules. The board of the BBC News Group has been reduced from 11 to eight members,...
Facebook, Amazon, Google and others could face massive fines under a law designed to rein in the tech giants, according to a European Commission report. The European Union will unveil a landmark law imposing stricter rules on the technology giants op...
Australian coal exports to China have been officially blocked for the first time, and import restrictions are expected to shake up the $14 billion export industry. The decision, taken by China's National Development and Reform Commission and reported...
Valentin Vinogradov, a leading international showjumper, has been found guilty of fraud by a court in Moscow and sentenced to four years in prison. The Presnensky District Court ruled in a judgement on December 23, 2020, that Vinogradov had stolen mi...
CANZUK International, formerly known as the Commonwealth Freedom Movement Organisation, is a non-profit international organisation whose mission is to create a proposed diplomatic union called CANZUK. The organisation aims to create a Commonwealth of...
Every major global crisis, pandemic, military conflict, natural disaster, and political upheaval affects financial markets, particularly the values of international currencies like the dollar, the euro, the yen, and many more. What has been the impac...
In a world of innovations and rapidly changing technology, the importance of the internet cannot be overemphasized. It is still quite appalling that with all the advancements in technology, more than half of the world is still unconnected to the inte...
A $15 billion deal to supply Israeli natural gas to Egypt has been criticised as poor value by one of the country’s top investment banks. Under the terms of the deal, Israel’s Delek Drilling will export natural gas to Egypt for 10 years. The gas deal...
A recent study by Which? has discovered that there looks set to be huge changes in the UK Cash Machine market. At the start of the year there were about 52,000 free ATMs in the UK, already in 2019 over 1700 of these have started to charge for withdra...
