There’s never a quiet day, let alone a quiet year, in the aviation industry and 2018 proved to be no exception. Takeovers, collapses, crashes and more all kept the sector in the headlines during the year. Both at home and abroad, Ryanair continued to make the headlines. It entered 2018 trying to thrash out a […]
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Monday, the last day of 2018, but were en route for their first annual drop in three years as fears of a slowing global economy and emerging supply glut outweighed impending OPEC-led production cuts. Brent crude futures were up 21 cents at $53.42 a barrel by 1:28 […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Equities around the world rose on Monday, with Wall Street edging up in choppy trading as hints of progress in the trade dispute between the United States and China provided a rare glimmer of optimism in what has been a punishing end of year for markets. The U.S. benchmark S&P 500 […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Equities around the world rose on Monday, with Wall Street edging up in choppy trading as hints of progress in the trade dispute between the United States and China provided a rare glimmer of optimism in what has been a punishing end of year for markets. The U.S. benchmark S&P 500 […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose more than 2 percent on the final day of the year, mirroring gains in stock markets, but were on track for their first annual decline in three years as concerns of a persistent supply glut lingered. Hints of progress on a possible U.S.-China trade deal, with U.S. President Donald […]
With the start of 2019 a few days away, chances are you’ll need to stock up on groceries and household essentials ahead of New Year’s Eve. But before you rush out it’s worth checking supermarket opening times here first to avoid any disappointment (or the horror) of being left without enough booze and party food […]
An unusual cyberattack disrupted printing operations at newspapers in Los Angeles, San Diego and Florida on Saturday, and The Los Angeles Times said it had come from outside the United States. Computer malware attacks on infrastructure, while relatively rare, are hardly new: Russia has been credibly accused of shutting down power grids in Ukraine and […]
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Jerome Powell had a bumpy first year as Federal Reserve chairman when it came to talking policy, by turns spooking and comforting investors even as economic data offered increasingly mixed signals and President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on the U.S. central bank. And as 2018 closes out with a […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China is willing to work with the United States to implement the consensus reached during talks between the two countries’ leaders in Argentina, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Sino-U.S. relations had gone through “storms” before, but that a healthy relationship served both […]
When Supermac’s’ first franchisee, Frank Murray, stepped off the ferry from Holyhead to a snowy Dublin in 1982, Ireland was a distinctly different place. Frank had been working as a chef in the Maudsley Hospital in south London, a teaching hospital, serving over 4,000 people. He remembers vividly the snow which brought Ireland to a […]