Hair transplant clinics have seen a boom in trade since the first lockdown because people felt pressured to look their best on Zoom calls and were more comfortable recovering while working at home. Both men and women were behind a spike in demand for the procedure and said it was comforting to know they wouldn’t … Read more
Royal Mail shares surge after it posts £900m sales amid pandemic parcel boom By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 10 March 2021 Royal Mail shares surged after the postal service said it expects annual revenues to have jumped by £900million. In a surprise trading … Read more
RAF says huge explosion heard over Liverpool is NOT a sonic boom from a fighter jet after residents told how houses shook and windows rattled Amazed locals reported hearing loud noise over Aintree, Sefton and Clubmoor Sonic boom caused when object breaks the sound barrier, so travels at 770mph Ministry of Defence and Royal Air … Read more
Huge explosion is heard over Liverpool caused by ‘sonic boom from RAF fighter jet’ as residents tell how houses shook and windows rattled Amazed locals reported hearing loud noise over Aintree, Sefton and Clubmoor Sonic boom caused when object breaks the sound barrier, so travels at 770mph Ministry of Defence and Royal Air Force not … Read more
BUSINESS LIVE: Halfords predicts big profits; Online grocery sales boom; TRG warns of £5.5m monthly cash burn By This Is Money Published: 08:07 GMT, 1 March 2021 | Updated: 09:24 GMT, 1 March 2021 Halfords is on course for profits of £90million to £100million after the pandemic created a boom in cycling among Britons and … Read more
Investors who have used London-listed funds to access the seemingly unstoppable US tech rally chalked up heavy losses yesterday. The likes of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and Allianz Technology Trust have been in demand in the last year from British retail shareholders who prefer not to buy into firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google-owner Alphabet and … Read more
The scramble to beat the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 has added £57,000 onto the price of the average home – up to five times the amount that would have been saved in tax. Since the stamp duty holiday was introduced last July home movers have saved an average of £11,566 … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Boom in online shopping since Covid-19 took hold is here to stay – that is verdict of bosses at warehouse giant Segro By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 GMT, 19 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 19 February 2021 The boom in online shopping since Covid-19 took hold is here … Read more
Phil Riley launches a new radio station for baby boomers: Find out more about Boom on the Great Wave of Change podcast By Michael Wilson For This Is Money Published: 15:13 GMT, 18 February 2021 | Updated: 15:13 GMT, 18 February 2021 Great Wave of Change, the podcast which captures the pre-eminent in finance, media, … Read more
Is Britain set for a boom or an economic reckoning? I can rarely remember a time when views on what’s up next for the economy have been so polarised. The glass half empty view is that furlough, business grants and loans, ultra-loose monetary policy, a stamp duty holiday, and emergency cash splashed left right and … Read more