British stocks ended September-quarter higher on Friday with domestically focused mid-cap stocks snapping a six-day losing streak after data showed UK’s economy fared better in the second quarter than previously thought. The FTSE 100 (.FTSE) ended 0.1% higher and closed the third quarter with 1% gain, after a 1.3% fall in the previous quarter. However, the benchmark…
Britain is in the final stages of talks with Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party and is preparing proposals it hopes will convince them to return to devolved government, Britain’s Northern Ireland minister wrote on Saturday. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) collapsed the executive more than 18 months ago in protest at the first post-Brexit deal…
Britain’s economic performance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has been much stronger than previously thought, with faster growth than Germany or France, according to revisions to official data released on Friday. Britain’s economy in the three months to the end of June 2023 was 1.8% larger than in the final quarter of 2019,…
Britain’s finance minister Jeremy Hunt ruled out near-term tax cuts ahead of a mid-year fiscal statement due on Nov. 22, but said in a newspaper interview he wanted to avoid “a vicious circle of ever-rising taxes”. Many lawmakers in Britain’s ruling Conservatives want Hunt to deliver tax cuts before the next election, as their party…
Around 1.8 million people in the U.S. received a COVID-19 vaccine during the week ended Sept. 22, according to data compiled by health care data and analytics firm IQVIA Holdings Inc (IQV.N). Around 1 million people received the Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech (22UAy.DE) shot and just under 800,000 got the Moderna (MRNA.O) vaccine, Michael Kleinrock, senior research director at the IQVIA institute told…
If Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting on Sunday and the government shuts down, the effects will be felt around the world, with many workers furloughed from foreign policy and national security positions or ordered to work without pay. A shutdown could also dent the United States’ reputation at a moment…
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service, inundating ground-level apartments and turning some streets into small lakes. Almost eight inches (20 cm) of rain fell in some parts of the most populous city in the U.S., enough to enable a sea…
Fresno, California, became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote that added caste and indigeneity as two new protected categories into its municipal code. THE TAKE A movement against caste discrimination has picked up some momentum in recent months in North America. Earlier this year, Seattle became the…
Donald Trump campaigned in California on Friday, just two days after skipping the Republican presidential debate there, looking to build support in the state with the biggest prize in his party’s 2024 White House nominating race. “With your help, we’re going to win the California primary,” the former president said to a crowd of Republican…
Shortly after Wednesday’s second Republican presidential debate concluded, California Governor Gavin Newsom was holding court in the so-called “spin room,” bouncing from one network to another to tout Democratic President Joe Biden as the real winner of the evening. It was an increasingly familiar position for Newsom, who has emerged as perhaps the Biden re-election campaign’s most…
