Lloyds under fire for handing out just £500m to struggling firms

Lloyds suffers profits collapse as it comes under fire for handing out just £500m under coronavirus Loans Scheme By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 30 April 2020 Lloyds suffered a collapse in profits as it came under fire for its lacklustre lending under the … Read more

Elon Musk brands lockdown ‘fascist’ and claims it poses risk to Tesla 

Elon Musk brands US lockdown measures ‘fascist’ and claims they pose a serious risk to Tesla By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 30 April 2020 Tesla boss Elon Musk has branded virus lockdown measures ‘fascist’ and warned they pose a ‘serious risk’ to his … Read more

Kristin Cavallari ‘believes husband Jay Cutler was attempting to withhold his money from her’

Kristin Cavallari ‘believes husband Jay Cutler was attempting to withhold his money from her during their seven year marriage’ By Christine Rendon and Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 22:10 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 30 April 2020 Kristin Cavallari long believed her husband of seven years, Jay Cutler, had been attempting … Read more

Caprice EXCLUSIVE: Star donates £250K of her own money to domestic abuse charity Woman’s Trust

Caprice EXCLUSIVE: Star donates £250K of her own money to domestic abuse charity Woman’s Trust after support group receives 2,000 calls in just three weeks during lockdown By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 17:09 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 17:09 BST, 30 April 2020 Caprice has donated £250K of her own money to support domestic … Read more

Property valuations could restart soon as RICS prepares advice

The housing market could be back up and running in just a few weeks after the industry body for surveyors confirmed it will unveil ‘practical guidance’ to enable home valuations to restart safely.  A spokeswoman for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors told This is Money that it is readying a new set of guidelines … Read more

Bitcoin halving: What is it and is it causing price to surge?

Bitcoin’s upcoming halving has led to a surge in interest from investors in the cryptocurrency, with some enthusiasts making wild predictions about how much it could be worth over the next few years. The chief executive of one UK-based bitcoin seller expected to see a surge in demand from investors for the rest of this … Read more

Oil giant Shell’s eight-decade run of not cutting dividends ends

Shell’s 80-year run of not cutting dividends ends as the oil giant falls victim to historic slump in demand caused by virus lockdown Shell is the first oil ‘supermajor’ to cut dividends due to the Covid-19 pandemic  Russ Mould, AJ Bell: Dividend cut is ‘devastating to investors across the country  In layman’s terms, oil markets … Read more

Rolls-Royce says it will be the first UK car maker to resume production from 4 May

Rolls-Royce says it will be the first UK car maker to resume production from 4 May Bosses at the British car maker said 1,000 employees will return on Monday That’s around half the total workforce at the Goodwood factory near Chichester It means Rolls-Royce will be back making cars a day earlier than Aston Martin … Read more

Lloyds Banking Group’s profits slump 95% as the Covid-19 crisis mounts

Lloyds Banking Group saw its first quarter profits practically wiped out as the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic mounts.  The bank. which is Britain’s biggest lender, saw its first quarter profits plummet by 95 per cent, from £1.6billion to £74million.  The lender has been forced to set aside a whopping £1.43billion to cover the … Read more

What impact has coronavirus had on the UK car industry?

There was a 37.6 per cent slump in UK car production last month, the first set of figures showing the devastating initial impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the industry. With many vehicle makers closing factories near the end of the month in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, just 78,767 vehicles were made … Read more