Manufacturing output rose in October, boosted by falling pound
The falling pound boosted manufacturing output in the UK last month, but also sharply increased the prices of imports.
The Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing purchasing...
Hong Kong’s financial services sector will need 5 million more square feet of office...
Hong Kong's financial services sector is likely to need another 5 million square feet of office space over the next 10 years, says a...
Apple’s new MacBook Pro has a touch-sensitive control bar
Apple announced its new and restyled MacBook Pro models powered by Intel's Skylake class processors.
The sixth-generation quad-core and dual-core processors offer up to...
WPP reports net sales growth of 2.9% in Q3 2016
British advertising giant, WPP, reported net sales growth of 2.9% in the third quarter, with revenues up 23.4% to £3.61bn ($4.4bn) - benefiting from...
Night-shift workers up 9 percent since 2011, say TUC
New figures released by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) show that the number of-night shift workers in the United Kingdom rose by 9 percent...
Mark Carney BoE governor likely to leave in 2018, reports suggest
Recent media reports suggest Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England (BoE), is unlikely going to extend his stay at the central bank.
The...
Morrisons has increased the price of Marmite by 12.5%
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket, has raised the price of a jar of Marmite by 12.5%, to £2.64 for a 250g jar.
The price increase...
Sweden on target for 100 percent electricity from renewable energy by 2040
Sweden is on target to produce 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2040, says the country's energy market inspector.
Earlier this...
UK did not offer Nissan a sweetheart deal to boost production
Downing Street has said that the UK did not offer Nissan a sweetheart deal to boost car production at its Sunderland plant.
The Japanese carmaker...
UK economy grew by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2016
UK GDP expanded by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2016, the July-to-September period after the Brexit vote, according to the Office for National...