Bell tolls for historic Lloyd’s trading room: It could end up ‘like coffee shop again’ in huge revamp, says chairman The competitiveness of Lloyd’s is seen as crucial to the City’s status as a leading financial centre Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown said Lloyd’s ‘started as a coffee shop and it might end up looking more like … Read more
Investors locked out of trading sites as they scramble to capitalise on Pfizer’s vaccine announcement By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 9 November 2020 Investors were yesterday locked out of some of Britain’s largest trading platforms as they rushed to capitalise on Pfizer’s vaccine … Read more
FTSE 100 opens trading at SIX-MONTH low of 5,583 the day after markets lost £37BILLION amid fears coronavirus second wave will cause economic meltdown London market had topsy-turvy first 30 minutes as it rose, fell and rose again FTSE 100 index has not seen such low figures since it closed at 5,582 on April 6 … Read more
Deutsche Bank is finally back in the black with a surge in bond trading pushing profits to £162m By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 28 October 2020 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 28 October 2020 Deutsche Bank has dragged itself into the black for the first time since early last … Read more
Pokémon, created by Satoshi Tajiri, started as a video game called Pocket Monsters in Japan in 1995. An instant hit, it was commissioned as a TV series in 1997. It was temporarily taken off air in 1998 after at least 700 viewers were hospitalised due to excessive use of strobe lighting and special effects in … Read more
Investors with money trapped in two big UK commercial property funds can sell their holdings next month By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 24 October 2020 Investors who have had money trapped in two big UK commercial property funds will be able to sell … Read more
Trading boom lifts JP Morgan: America’s biggest bank beats Wall street estimates By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:04 BST, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 23:04 BST, 13 October 2020 US bank JP Morgan gained from a boom in trading in financial markets JP Morgan beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit as … Read more
Cazoo sees an acceleration in trading as car sales go online: Website valued at £2bn after surge in business during virus crisis By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 1 October 2020 An internet marketplace for used cars has been valued at £2billion after seeing … Read more
Controversial financial betting firm Plus500 poised to take on traditional stockbrokers by launching conventional share trading service By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:49 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:49 BST, 29 August 2020 Controversial financial betting firm Plus500 is poised to take on traditional stockbrokers by launching a conventional share trading … Read more
A self-proclaimed taxidermist who was put behind bars after pictures of him posing next to his wild animal collection sparked a police investigation has been jailed for a second time. Aaron Halstead, from Burnley, Lancashire was jailed for 24 weeks in 2015 after a probe discovered he had illegally bought three sperm whale teeth, a … Read more