McDonald’s will not put its properties in a REIT
McDonald’s has decided against creating a real estate investment trust (REIT).
Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook broke the news at the company’s investor meeting on Tuesday....
AB InBev poised to announce £68bn takeover of SABMiller
Anheuser-Busch InBev is poised to announce the acquisition of SABMiller Plc for £68 billion on Wednesday.
SABMiller is selling its remaining stake in its US joint...
BoE forecast to begin hiking rates by mid-2016, Reuters poll reveals
A Reuters poll of more than 40 economists revealed that the Bank of England is expected to begin hiking rates by mid-2016.
The forecast of...
FTSE 100 closes lower on weak mining sector
The FTSE 100 closed lower on Tuesday as plunging metal prices weighed on miners. The index fell 0.32 percent, closing at 6,271.24 points on...
Vancouver prepares for king tides
Tens of thousands of sandbags have been used to create defensive barriers along a 200-metre stretch of Locarno Beach, one of the beaches that...
Beautiful coral reefs are healthier than ugly ones, study finds
Beautiful coral reefs tend to be healthier than less pretty or plain ugly ones, according to an objective computational analysis of photographs. Most of...
Pluto has ice volcanoes, twirling moons plus 50 other discoveries – NASA
Included among the 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto, are its possible ice volcanoes and moons that orbit the planet like spinning tops, researchers on...
Sun erupting over 12 flares captured in incredible NASA video
The sun erupting over 12 flares on its surface has been captured on an incredible video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a...
Three million UK workers commute at least 2 hours a day
Over the last ten years the number of people in the UK commuting for over two hours a day has increased 72%, from 1.7...
OECD cuts 2015 global growth forecast down to 2.9%
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year because of a “deeply concerning” slowdown in...