Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Norma Rae on the River Before the pandemic, I worked in the outdoor adventure industry as a multiday river guide. For many, it’s a dream job — living […]
Property prices are growing at their fastest rate since 2015, with the average price of a house reaching £227,826 in October. House prices were up 5.8% in October compared to the same time last year, marking the fastest year-on-year growth rate since January 2015, Nationwide Building Society said. Prices increased by 0.8% month-on-month. The market […]
The soap opera also known as the largest deal in luxury, the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-Tiffany acquisition, finally has a happy ending. The two companies originally announced their synergistic engagement in November 2019 only to later engage in months of public mudslinging after the pandemic hit the luxury market and LVMH’s commitment turned wobbly. […]
British Airways owner IAG says demand for air travel is unlikely to fully recover before 2023. International Airlines Group, which also owns Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling, was publishing further details of its July-September period on Friday after announcing a worse-than-expected quarterly loss of €1.3bn (£1.17bn) last week. Luis Gallego, who took over as IAG’s […]
The journalist Glenn Greenwald said on Thursday that he was leaving The Intercept, the news website he helped found, claiming that it had refused to publish an article he wrote on Joseph R. Biden Jr. unless he removed sections that were critical of the Democratic presidential nominee. Mr. Greenwald, who is best known for his […]
OPINION Whether the Greens join the Government tonight is irrelevant. To whomever will listen, Jacinda Ardern is making clear that this will be a Labour Government, governing from the centre. A committed incrementalist, the Prime Minister wants Labour to be the semi-permanent party of government, like National from 1949 to 1999 or the Swedish Social […]
Slideshow ( 2 images )WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy grew at an unrivaled pace in the third quarter as the government poured out more than $3 trillion worth of pandemic relief which fueled consumer spending, but the deep scars from the COVID-19 recession could take a year or more to heal. Gross domestic product […]
A union has blasted further staff cuts at Air New Zealand as ”appalling” at the company which has received hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money this year. Air New Zealand has today confirmed the loss of 385 cabin crew roles that had been under review for the last two months. E tū head […]
The long, painful process of finding a buyer for the bankrupt J.C. Penney Co. Inc. took a big step forward Wednesday evening when the retailer signed an asset purchase agreement with two key landlords and its lenders. Under the deal, Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Simon Property Group and a majority of the company’s debtor-in-possession and […]
(Reuters) – Asian stocks were set to join a global sell-off on Thursday as worries about surging coronavirus cases in Europe and the United States sent investors scrambling for safe-haven assets.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 in […]