House sales boost following stamp duty reform expected by UK surveyors
Although house price growth declined in November, George Osborne’s overhaul of stamp duty is likely to boost sales, a UK Residential Market Survey carried...
Pension firms failing savers, who miss out on higher incomes
Consumers are being failed by pension funds, says a review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial regulatory body. Savers could have...
Australian unemployment rate rose to 6.3% in November, highest level since 2002
The Australian unemployment rate rose to 6.3% in November, the highest level since 2002.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the country’s unemployment...
42.9 million American consumers have unpaid medical debts
A government report revealed that almost 20 percent of American consumers (42.9 million people) have unpaid medical debts.
The report was released by the Consumer...
Google News service is shutting down in Spain
Google has announced it is shutting down its Google News service in Spain. The service in Spain will end on 16 December before a...
Five trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans, says study
A recent study shows that there are over five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans.
The study, published in the journal PLOS...
Earth’s water came from asteroids not comets, Rosetta mission finds
According to a recent study published in the journal Science, results from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission (which landed on Comet 67P in...
Google is best company to work for, while Twitter fell from top 50
Google Inc., which is usually in the top 50 companies to work for, won the number 1 spot this year on Glassdoor’s seventh annual...
Instagram boasts 300 million monthly users, beating Twitter
Photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service Instagram has topped 300 million monthly active users, nine months after reaching 200 million. Instagram beat Twitter which...
Canada’s housing market forecast to grow by 2.5% in 2015
The housing market in Canada is expected to grow by 2.5% in 2015, says a new report by RE/MAX, with the Greater Vancouver and...