Relax, you didn’t miss the bargains. If, like me, you spent the Boxing Day weekend as far from the shops as possible, you haven’t missed out on any once-in-a-lifetime bargains. Boxing Day isn’t the only sale of the year and doesn’t even always offer the cheapest prices. Comparison website PriceSpy.co.nz did some research on its […]
FILE PHOTO: A woman carries Nike shopping bags at the Citadel Outlet mall, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Commerce, California, U.S., December 3, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo(Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose 3.0% during this year’s expanded holiday shopping season from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24, a report by […]
A low-profile Auckland farmer who become enormously wealthy selling vast tracts of city-fringe property lived liked a Scrooge, friends says, and is said to have become the country’s largest charitable donor largely out of spite. Harold Charles Francis Plumley, better known as “Plum”, died in July 2016, aged 91, still living in the modest Māngere […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, which left the European Union in January, loses full access to the bloc under transition arrangements that end at 2300 GMT on Dec. 31.FILE PHOTO: Skyscrapers in The City of London financial district are seen in London, Britain, September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKayThe 27-nation EU is Britain’s biggest financial services customer, […]
Tony Robbins, the life coach and motivational speaker, discriminated against one of his employees by refusing to grant her the accommodations she needed to work from home after she contracted a debilitating case of Covid-19 in the spring, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit also charges that Mr. Robbins falsely claimed to have […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday aim to win quick passage of legislation providing $2,000 in direct payments to Americans as part of a coronavirus economic relief initiative after President Donald Trump unexpectedly insisted on the provision.FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves before boarding Air Force One at […]
Stock futures began the overnight session slightly higher Wednesday evening ahead of the final trading day of the holiday-shortened week. On Thursday, the U.S. stock market will close early at 1 p.m., and the bond market will close at 2 p.m. in observation of Christmas Eve. Both the stock and bond markets will close all […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks rallied and the British pound gained on Thursday as Britain and the European Union closed in on a free-trade deal and investors wagered on a global economic recovery.FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), look at a stock quotation board outside a brokerage […]
NASCAR’s biggest stars are millionaires many times over, but the coveted position of race car driver is not as lucrative today as it was in generations past. Even before the pandemic, NASCAR teams had been struggling to turn a profit for years. The 2008 recession hit the sport and its traditional Heartland fan base especially […]
“The home is not a static place,” the home décor maven Justina Blakeney said, reflecting on the importance of design in our living spaces. “Your home needs to grow and change as you grow and change. It can support you, if you put your mind to it.” For a decade, Ms. Blakeney, 41, has preached […]