One thing that quite often puzzles people who do not work in financial markets is their tendency to treat seemingly good news as bad. We got a classic example on Friday with news that US employers added 336,000 jobs in September. That was up from 227,000 in August (a figure itself revised higher from the
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A 36-year-old man has been charged over an alleged plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby. Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field, Harlow, has also been charged with soliciting to commit murder, incitement to commit rape and incitement to commit kidnap. The suspect is in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court later today.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested in relation to an alleged plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby. The This Morning presenter, 42, pulled out of the show on Thursday and her London home is reportedly being guarded by police. Essex Police said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to kidnap
JD Wetherspoon has credited a surge in sales and reduction in costs for its first annual profit since the COVID pandemic. The value pub and hotel chain, which trades from 826 sites across the UK and Ireland, reported profit before tax for the year to the end of July of £42.6m. That compared to a
AS COACHES AND players trudged into the locker room at halftime of what would become yet another dispiriting loss — one of 62 for the 2021-22 Houston Rockets, a team built to lose in its first full season since the end of the James Harden era — they heard an unusual voice command attention. “You’re
At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in the Indian Himalayan region, officials have said. The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of the glacial South Lhonak lake breached a hydroelectric dam. That triggered flash flooding in the mountainous Sikkim state of northeastern India, impacting towns and villages along the Teesta River
Labour sources at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West count were either playing a game with us about the scale of their party’s victory or were genuinely surprised. Early on at the count, they said they thought the swing from the SNP to Labour would be 7% to 8%, suggesting a gain of 15 to 22
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Thursday in an effort to compel the billionaire to testify over his purchase of Twitter last year. Attorneys representing the SEC alleged in a complaint filed in the Northern District of California that Musk failed to appear for a Sept. 15 testimony as required by
Tesla and the Nuevo León state government are still negotiating for the latter to deploy infrastructure at the Gigafactory Mexico site, which could possibly explain the holdup in starting construction. Tesla finally announced Gigafactory Mexico during its Investor Day in March. The automaker secured a piece of land just outside of Monterrey, Nuevo León, to build the plant.
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial appears at Federal Court in New York on Oct. 4th, 2023. Artist: Claudia Johnson Marc-Antoine Julliard typically trades cocoa beans. But in the spring of 2021, the London-based commodities broker decided to diversify into cryptocurrency trading. His platform of choice was FTX. Two years later, Julliard stood as the prosecution’s first witness
The United States has shot down an armed Turkish drone operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said. It was the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey. Turkish drones had been seen carrying out airstrikes in Hasakah in Syria on Thursday morning in a so-called American “restricted operating
Stephen Holder, ESPNOct 5, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national
In this article AAPL GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gabriel Weinberg, founder and chief executive officer of DuckDuckGo Inc., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple once considered replacing Google as its default search engine in
Scottish Labour has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. Michael Shanks replaces shamed MP Margaret Ferrier, who was ousted from her seat in August following a successful recall petition for breaching COVID restrictions during lockdown in 2020. Voters took to the polls between 7am and 10pm on Thursday and out of the 82,104 electorate,
Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Prigozhin was reportedly in a plane crash north of Moscow on 23 August, two months to the day after he led a failed mutiny against top Russian officials.
Sir Keir Starmer has criticised Rishi Sunak for failing to address the rising cost of living in his party conference speech after Sky News revealed how families are struggling to afford baby formula. The Labour leader was asked if he would commit to more support for struggling families after the report, which found that formula
Metro Bank has kicked off talks about the sale of a £3bn chunk of its mortgage book as part of an increasingly urgent attempt to shore up its fragile balance sheet. Sky News has learnt that advisers to Metro Bank – which saw its shares plunge on Thursday after acknowledging that it was seeking to
A man who was encouraged by an artificial intelligence chatbot in his plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in custody, but will remain in hospital until he is deemed fit enough to go to prison. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, scaled the perimeter of the Windsor Castle grounds with a
The trial of embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried has begun – with prosecutors claiming he stole more than $10bn (£8.2bn) from unsuspecting customers. Almost a year after FTX spectacularly collapsed, leaving millions of people out of pocket, a court heard that the 31-year-old’s multibillion-dollar empire was “built on lies”. Bankman-Fried has been accused of using
Kawasaki has finally revealed the final specs as well as pricing for its first two electric motorcycles, the Kawasaki Ninja e-1 and Z e-1. Both bikes are now launching in North American markets (US and Canada) as well as in the UK. In the US, the Ninja e-1 will be priced at US $7,599, while