A slump in oil prices could lead to further reductions at the fuel pumps but any benefit risks being stripped away next month as the chancellor seeks ways to bolster the public finances. A barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, slipped below $70 for the first time since December 2021 on Tuesday afternoon. The
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Warren East, former CEO of Rolls Royce and Arm, speaking at a tech event in London on June 13, 2022. Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg via Getty Images CAMBRIDGE, England — The U.K. is doing a bad job of commercializing technology businesses globally and needs a mindset shift from the investor community to win on the
Antarctica, now a vast frozen continent, was not always covered in ice. Around 34 million years ago, during the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, the continent was ice-free. According to Eric Wolff, a paleoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge, Antarctica resembled northern Canada with tundra and coniferous forests before it froze. The shift to ice began due to
Mel Stride has become the latest Tory leadership hopeful to be knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak. Conservative MPs held their second round of voting on Tuesday as they narrowed down the candidates to lead the party. And the former work and pensions secretary came in last place with just 16 MPs
Kamala Harris was a prosecutor for far longer than she’s been a politician. Harris’s lengthy career in law started in 1990 when she became a deputy district attorney specialising in prosecuting child sexual assault offenders. It ran until 2017 when she was overseeing the largest state justice department in the country as attorney general of
There is “no clear link” between the appearance of a guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show and his suicide, a coroner has concluded. Steve Dymond, 63, was found dead at his home in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in May 2019, seven days after taking part in the show. Hampshire coroner Jason Pegg said there was “an absence
A man accused of inviting at least 50 other men to rape his wife has been taken to hospital on the day he was due to give evidence. Dominique Pelicot is alleged to have recruited the men on a chat room called “without her knowing” in a case that has shocked France. The 71-year-old is
MPs have voted to cut the winter fuel payment for all but the country’s poorest pensioners. A Tory move to block the measure was defeated by 348 to 228 votes – a majority of 120. Labour has a working majority in the Commons of 167. The division list showed Labour MP Jon Trickett supported the
The artificial intelligence trade is not just for traditional tech companies. We have three industrial stocks in the portfolio that will keep getting more and more business as AI proliferates and data centers are built and rebuilt to handle the increasing computing workloads. Beyond AI, there are other fundamental reasons to buy them as well.
On today’s spectacular episode of Quick Charge, the Tesla brain drain continues as another key executive departs the company, rivals BYD and Lucid step up their self-driving games, and Dodge reveals an AWD electric Hornet with 1,070 hp that does 0-60 in 1.4 seconds! We also talk about Tesla’s new wireless charging patents and what they might
Israeli airstrikes have killed or wounded 65 people in a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, the region’s emergency service have said. According to the Gaza civil emergency service, a tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area – which is a designated humanitarian zone – was struck by at least four
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT oatawa | Getty Bitcoin jumped Monday evening and topped $57,000 after Wall Street’s rebound from its worst week of the year. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 5.6% at $57,4449.00, according to Coin Metrics. Last week, bitcoin tumbled 9% for its
The chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales has warned that today’s early release of around 1,750 offenders is going to be “risky”. It is being done to create space in the country’s overcrowded prisons and the government insists the alternative was “unthinkable” and would have led to a “total collapse of the criminal
Acting great James Earl Jones, who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King, has died at the age of 93. He appeared in Conan the Barbarian, played Eddie Murphy’s dad in Coming to America and starred in The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games. Mark Hamill, who played Luke
Selena Gomez has said she cannot carry her own children due to health issues. The actor and singer told Vanity Fair her chronic health issues, which include a lupus diagnosis, make it risky for her to carry a baby to term and give birth. The 32-year-old was discussing her role in the film Emilia Perez,
U.S. crude oil futures rebounded nearly 1% on Monday after posting the worst week since October 2023. The U.S. benchmark has fallen 15.8% so far in the third quarter while the Brent global benchmark has fallen more than 16.6%. “We have lost 400 million barrels of financial demand since early July,” Daan Struyven, oil research
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