(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit as weakness in bond trading due to spikes in market volatility at the end of the year more than offset gains from higher interest rates and loan growth. Shares of the largest U.S. bank by assets fell 3 percent in early trading as […]
You don’t need a degree in economics to realise that if you have the savings to cover something, then debt is a bad idea. That’s why it sort of makes sense that the families of the richest 10% of students in English universities choose to pay their £9,000-a-year tuition fees up front. Figures from the […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore has the “right ingredients” to make it the urban agriculture and aquaculture technology hub in the region, Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, said on Tuesday (Jan 15). In a keynote speech at the Indoor Ag-Con Asia conference at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, […]
We all know switching to supermarket own-brand products can save you some serious cash, but what are you giving up? Well, according to the expert testers at the Good Housekeeping Institute , in some cases nothing at all. In fact, several of the own-brands actually performed better in terms of taste and performance – on […]
A young father of five has been killed after part of a tree hit him while he was clearing away forestry in Co Donegal. Kevin McEhinney died instantly following the accident on the outskirts of Carndonagh on the Inishowen Peninsula on Friday night last. The 41-year-old farmer, who was originally from Ballyloskey in Carndonagh, was […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Regulators in the U.S. state of Alaska will investigate all of the oil and natural gas wells operated by BP Plc at its Prudhoe Bay oil field after the release of a small amount of crude oil and gas from a well that had earlier been shut. The Alaska Oil and […]
The latest economic data from the eurozone, released yesterday, confirmed that the 19-member bloc appeared to be moving towards a period of slower output growth, putting the European Central Bank on notice over its plans to raise interest rates. Industrial production fell 1.7pc in November from October and was down 3.3pc from a year earlier. […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – PG&E Corp’s announcement that it will file for bankruptcy, citing massive potential liability from deadly wildfires, puts California politicians in quandary, whether to offer a bailout or risk allowing the state’s largest private utility to fail. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, told reporters late on Monday his team was discussing the […]
More than 1,400 Debenhams workers in Ireland face fresh uncertainty about their jobs after a report that the embattled department store chain is to nearly double the number of outlets it intends to close across the UK and Ireland over the next three to five years. The ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported that Debenhams now intends to […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose by 1 percent on Tuesday amid supply cuts by producer club OPEC and Russia, although analysts said much bigger gains were unlikely because of a darkening economic outlook capped gains. International Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $59.62 per barrel at 0133 GMT, up 63 cents, or 1.1 […]