SINGAPORE – Commerz Real has sold its 71 Robinson Road property to SV Robinson for $655 million. SV Robinson is a real estate investment company which is a member the Sun Venture group of companies. The sale was done through its open-ended real estate fund hausInvest, Commerz Real said on Tuesday. Commerz Real was also […]

House prices across major cities in southern England have weaker growth than at any time for more than seven years. No city from the South made it into the top 10, with Cambridge, London, Oxford, Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Bristol all featuring in the bottom 10, Zoopla found. As to why, the property company said […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks gained on Tuesday as equity investors prepared for an expected U.S. interest rate cut this week while the pound retreated to a 28-month low as heightened concerns about a no-deal Brexit gripped currency markets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.35%. The Shanghai Composite Index .SSEC rose […]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in a stand-off with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over the Brexit backstop amid a deterioration in Anglo-Irish relations. Mr Johnson’s failure to speak to Mr Varadkar nearly a week after he took office is being viewed in Government and diplomatic circles as evidence of Britain trying to “up the ante” […]

(Reuters) – Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) said on Monday personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested. The U.S. credit card issuer said it identified the hack on […]

When I lived in the mountains of Utah, I used to ski in the backcountry often. This is not resort skiing, and there is no patrol checking for avalanche risk, so assessing that risk becomes your own responsibility. It is an imprecise science, and there is always a chance you’ll get it wrong. But the […]

With next season's Premier League football being shared between Sky, BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video, it can be hard to work out which services you need to be signed up to to catch the whole season – and how to do so without bankrupting yourself. The cost of getting BT on Sky and vice […]

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks were set to open just off record highs on Monday, pausing at the start of a week likely to be dominated by Wednesday’s statement by the Federal Reserve and a round of tech company earnings that will again test the impact of trade concerns on global growth. The S&P 500 and […]

Factories have warned beef prices could fall further as beef farmers hold protests at a number of processing plants over a deepening crisis in the sector. The Beef Plan Movement is holding a number of what it describes as ‘peaceful protests’ outside meat factories this week as it calls on members to not trade today. […]

The pound tumbled against the euro and the dollar on Monday with the British cabinet set to hold its first high-level Brexit meeting and after Michael Gove, a top UK government official, warned that a no deal outcome was “a very real prospect”. The beleaguered British currency fell by 0.3pc against the euro falling below […]