Squeezed British consumers reined in Christmas travel plans and bought fewer new cars last month, setting the stage for the first fall in festive spending in five years, according to credit card company Visa. As Ciara Lee reports, the downbeat message came alongside a cut by the British Chambers of Commerce to its economic outlook for the next two years as the business organisation sees inflation rising faster than pay for the next two years.
LONDON, April 26, 2024--Highlights Underlying sales growth excluding OPM1 and Strategic Review2 of 3%.Strong operational progress in all divisions and continued execution momentum across our 2024 strategic priorities.Continuing to infuse our products with AI and on-track to include AI features in more than 40 Higher Education titles for the Fall semester.Initial £300m share buyback completed; the previously announced £200m buyback extension has commenced.Omar Abbosh, Pearson’s Chief Executive, s
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Commuters on the Tube are suffering serious morning rush-hour disruption as emergency workers respond to a casuality on the track. The incident has closed the District line between Tower Hill and Upminster with severe delays on the rest of the line. There is also now service on the Hammersmith & City line between Liverpool Street and Barking.
Protests against the Gaza war grip dozens of campuses across America, with hundreds of arrests.
Microsoft and Google showed investors that heavy artificial intelligence investment can pay off with rising revenue, allaying concerns raised a day earlier by Meta, which said its expensive foray into AI was not immediately paying off. Shares in Google-parent Alphabet were up over 11% in Frankfurt on Friday, while Microsoft shares rose nearly 5%. Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of artificial intelligence across its cloud services.
Oslo, 26 April 2024 – Adevinta ASA today released its 2023 Annual Report, available here. A printed copy may be obtained free of charge upon written request to: ir@adevinta.com. Reflecting on 2023, Antoine Jouteau, CEO, said: “Over the past year, we have made significant progress on redesigning our operating model, verticalising our organisation in line with our Growing At Scale strategy and successfully completing our portfolio optimisation. We have achieved strong financial and operational per
Brussels - 26 April 2024 - Implementing the Federal Hydrogen Act of 11 July 2023, Federal Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten has appointed Fluxys hydrogen, a subsidiary of Fluxys Belgium, as operator for the development and management of a hydrogen transmission grid in Belgium. The appointment as “HNO” – Hydrogen Network Operator - for Belgium is a major step forward in the energy transition. Leveraging Fluxys' decades of expertise in gas transport, Fluxys hydrogen will develop the necessary
PARIS, April 26, 2024--Regulatory News: Pernod Ricard (Paris:RI):
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Poisoned books include volumes of Edward Hayes’s ’The Ballads of Ireland’ from 1855
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Consumer confidence is improving after the headline score on GfK’s long-running index rose two points to minus 19 in April, compared with minus 30 a year earlier. GfK’s client strategy director Joe Staton said the improvements reflect the impact on household budgets of lower inflation and the anticipation of further tax cuts. “But Spring has arrived and maybe consumer confidence is, at last, slowly becoming brighter and heading in the right direction.”
Police had issued arrest warrant as well as community look-out notice after Pledger failed to appear in court
Tech Mahindra shares jumped 13.2% on Friday, their biggest intraday gain in nearly eight years, after India's No.5 IT company announced a turnaround plan that offered succour following declining revenue growth for the past three quarters. Including the day's move, Tech Mahindra is up 2% so far this year compared with a 4% fall in the IT index. Larger rival Infosys was down 6.8%, while Tata Consultancy Services was up 2.2%.
Extraordinary question during discussion of Rwanda deportation plan was met with visible bewilderment from the audience
KYOTO, Japan, April 26, 2024--Kyocera Corporation announced its consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Japan's Nikkei share average rallied on Friday after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) opted to leave interest rates unchanged, as widely expected, and said accommodative monetary conditions are likely to continue for the time being. The Nikkei ended the day 0.8% higher at 37,934.76, extending a 0.4% rise from the morning session after the BOJ announced its policy decision during the midday recess. The BOJ maintained its short-term interest rate target at a range of 0-0.1% in a unanimous vote, and issued fresh estimates projecting inflation to stay near its 2% target in the next three years.
The video sharing app faces being banned in the US unless it severs ties with its Chinese parent.
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