Global Finance

Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor

Mixed but generally positive responses to Sunak’s revised support package

By HAL WILLIAMS THE UK government’s new package of measures to support businesses through to March 2021 has met with differing responses from the business...

Navigating the maze of red tape

Legislation and bureaucracy have been sticking in the gizzard of commerce for decades. With one piece of frustrating paperwork after another getting in the...
Ethereum

The crypto balloon is rising again, with new player Ethereum hanging...

By HAL WILLIAMS BITCOIN’S value will more than double by the end of 2018. Buy, buy, buy! But, um, not Bitcoin. And hey, relax your shoulders:...

Brian Chesky: The Reason You Don’t Need to Find a Room...

Brian Chesky, CEO of AirBnB, is a champion of the global sharing economy. Proving that there’s no place like someone else’s home, AirBnB –...
Tesla Model 3 2018

Tesla shuts showrooms and moves to online sales in bid to...

TESLA is cutting prices and closing showroom doors in a dramatic bid to remain viable. (Click here to see stock prices for the companies mentioned...

Optimism drops, but activity robust in financial services – CBI/PwC

Sentiment in the financial services sector deteriorated in the three months to June, but business conditions – such as volumes, profits and hiring –...
UK Government loan

Covid-19 loan schemes ‘a debt, not a grant’ cautions UK Finance

UK BUSINESSES are pessimistic about their growth potential once the COVID-19 crisis passes. A survey of 1,200 firms has found that the pandemic has negatively...
Coal Mining

Carbon cuts — or crash: investors’ warning at Poland climate summit

UNLESS coal burning is phased out and drastic cuts made to carbon emissions, the world faces a financial crash that will dwarf the 2008...

ZICA ASSIS (Founder, Beliza Natural): A real rags to riches tale

AS a child in the seventies, Zica Assis and her family had nothing. They lived, like thousands of others in the run-down favelas of...
Working from home, working in office

Hybrid-working, the office … and the human factor

By JOE HARRIS AN 83 PERCENT majority of office workers reportedly say they prefer the hybrid working model. From a leadership perspective, crafting effective policies to...