Extra pension tax for higher earners, more free childcare for working parents and all-round help with energy bills top the chancellor’s list of measures for consumers, households and savers. Retirement benefits for seniors will rise in an effort to encourage…
Silicon Valley Bank’s crisis creates attractive entry points in home solar stocks Sunrun and Sunnova Energy International, according to Wells Fargo. “Weakness in resi-solar driven by the SVB crisis is a buying opportunity,” analyst Michael Blum said to clients in…
Finding talent is expensive. After using resources to advertise a role, sit through multiple interviews to narrow down applicants, and then train new hires, the last thing employers want to do is repeat the expensive process – just months later.…
European banking stocks fell on Wednesday, led by a dive in Credit Suisse shares after Switzerland’s largest shareholder said it would no longer provide capital. In Europe, the Euro Stoxx Bank index dropped 6.4 percent, as Credit Suisse shares lost…
Bitcoin is up 50% so far in 2023, beating major commodities and stock indices. Industry insiders say the bank collapse has sent investors looking for alternatives to the traditional banking system and there is also anticipation of lower interest rates,…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining the ranks of CEOs rethinking the value of remote work. In a memo sent Tuesday, Zuckerberg claimed that “initial analysis of performance data” found that engineers who had personal work time (even if they…
Protests spread across Pakistan as police tried to arrest opposition leader Imran Khan, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government struggling to restore order. Law enforcement clashed with protesters loyal to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party outside his residence in central Lahore…
Shoppers carry Zara brand bags on Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, Spain, on Friday, December 16, 2022. Bloomberg Bloomberg Getty Images Zara owner Inditex said on Wednesday that it will increase its net profit by 27% in 2022 as sales…
Walt Disney Co. the hunt for whoever is responsible for distributing Marvel’s latest unreleased blockbuster script. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The entertainment giant was served with a subpoena on Monday ordering Google and Alphabet Inc.’s Reddit. to modify any…
China’s consumer spending rose again in the first two months of 2023, an early sign of an economic recovery that the government warned remained fragile after years of pandemic restrictions. Retail sales rose 3.5 percent annually in the first two…