Welcome to Capital Confidential — a weekly diary column that includes the greatest tidbits from round the U.K.’s business and political panorama from MarketWatch sister publication Financial News. This week: Martha Lane Fox voices despondency on eliminating tech’s gender imbalance, and star-studded goings-on at Davos… Martha provides up on tech gender pay hole Martha Lane […]
U.K.’s Theresa May Says Brexit Negotiations Have Reached ‘an Impasse’
Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday warned that Brexit talks had hit an deadlock and referred to as on European leaders to current new proposals as negotiations between the 2 sides flip more and more acrimonious. Following a tense assembly together with her EU counterparts earlier this week in Salzburg, the place her […]
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund buys 245 million pounds stake in UK’s Shaftesbury
((This Feb. 22 story corrects paragraph four to make clear NBIM’s partnership with Crown Estate)) By Noor Zainab Hussain and Esha Vaish (Reuters) – The sovereign wealth fund of Norway purchased a 245 million pounds ($342 million) stake in British property group Shaftesbury from Invesco, regulatory filings confirmed on Thursday. Shaftesbury owns and manages retail, […]
The Financial News Daily | Brexit & Beyond: EU Reacts to May’s Citizens, U.K.’s Euro Clearing at Risk, Sterling’s Brexit Blues
Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of stories and evaluation of how Brexit will have an effect on international enterprise, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrives on the second day of a summit of European Union leaders. / AFP PHOTO […]
The Financial News Daily | UK’s largest broker offers Bitcoin investment without the fuss
Hargreaves Lansdown the UK’s largest investment web site permits anybody to spend money on Bitcoin The UK’s largest monetary investing web site is now providing the non technical savvy the alternative to spend money on Bitcoin. Customers who’ve a common buying and selling or self-invested pension fund with Hargreaves Lansdown can now purchase right into […]
The Financial News Daily | UK’s star fund manager aims to win over the older savers market
Neil Woodford’s new fund says it can pay 5% in the first yr. We ask prime monetary advisers if it’s a protected guess in your cash It says it’s going to pay an preliminary 5% revenue, it’s taken care of by the most profitable funding manager of his era, it may be put right into […]