Turkey launches offensive in Syria
Turkey's military, backed by U.S.-led coalition warplanes, launches an operation to wipe out Islamic State militants along its border. Natasha Howitt reports.
Turkey's military, backed by U.S.-led coalition warplanes, launches an operation to wipe out Islamic State militants along its border. Natasha Howitt reports.
Inflows into the nine recently launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have resumed their upward trajectory this week after the cryptocurrency's price bounced back from its dip last week. "The resumption in bitcoin's strong performance is sparking renewed interest in the ETFs," said Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, an analysis firm. The nine funds that made their debut in January pulled in nearly $1 billion in assets in the first two days of this week, according to data from BitMEX Research.
Home Depot will buy SRS Distribution, a materials provider for professionals, in a deal valued at approximately $18.25 billion. It is Home Depot's largest acquisition in its history and with it, it steps more aggressively into the fast growing professional builder and contactor business. Home Depot said that when taking the deal into account, it now believes its total addressable market is approximately $1 trillion, an increase of approximately $50 billion.
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Volunteers have spent weeks removing a river blockage of waste and debris from the River Blackwater.
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Zambia's deal with bondholders this week suggests it will finally emerge from more than three years in default -- and become the first successful restructuring under the debt-rework architecture designed by the G20. The African nation's President Hakainde Hichilema posted on X that "history has been made," while International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Kristalina Georgieva lauded the "important achievement." Global leaders hope that Ghana may soon reach its own deal with lenders, boosting the Framework before the IMF World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. in mid-April.
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Investors are refusing to provide an expected first £500m by the end of this month.
ELLE UK speaks to Team GB’s youngest-ever Olympic medallist, skateboarder Sky Brown.
An MP called for the firm to be put into special administration
Italian asset manager Azimut Holding plans to spin-off part of its network of financial advisors and merge it into a new digital bank to be listed within 6-9 months, it said on Thursday. The financial advisors of the new, independent, fintech bank will be given 2% of the share capital each year, for the first five years, replicating the shareholding model of Azimut. Azimut Holding will benefit from a 20-year revenue guarantee on the income generated by the company's existing assets.
Travellers are facing severe train disruption over the Easter weekend with extensive engineering works planned. Network Rail is urging passengers to check their journey details before they travel as some major routes will be closed. No trains will run to or from London Euston – excluding London Overground - over the Easter weekend due to engineering works.
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said he wants Boeing's new head of commercial airplanes division Stephanie Pope to stay in the role to fix production problems rather than be considered a contender as the planemaker's new head. O'Leary said the identity of the next CEO was secondary to the need for Boeing to address the problems that have caused delivery delays and pushed back his airline's aggressive growth plans. But he still said he would prefer Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to stay on to complete the turnaround.
TimesSquare Capital Management, an equity investment management company, released its “U.S. Mid Cap Growth Strategy” fourth-quarter investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the fourth quarter, the strategy underperformed the Russell Midcap Growth Index and returned 13.66% (gross) and 13.44% (net) while the index return was – 14.55%. In addition, please […]
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The RAC warns of "carmageddon" as heavy traffic is expected during the Easter getaway.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was in Poland on Thursday for talks with his counterpart Donald Tusk to address Polish and western European farmers’ demands that regulations be applied to the cheap Ukrainian food imports that they say are undercutting their livelihoods. Farmers in many countries have been staging vehement protests against the imports and tensions have grown between Kyiv and its staunch ally Warsaw over the tax-free inflow of Ukraine's farm produce. Tusk has suggested that Poland, a NATO member and European Union country bordering Ukraine, will seek quotas on the imports during the talks.
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Former Sierra Leone international Lamin Bangura dies aged 59 after a road accident in the West African nation.