Bitcoin has surged to a fresh record high, briefly breaking through the $106,000 (£83,700) mark, after President-elect Donald Trump hinted that his incoming administration may build a “strategic reserve” of the cryptocurrency, akin to the United States’ longstanding emergency oil stockpile. Speaking to CNBC, Mr Trump suggested the US could amass a Bitcoin reserve following his inauguration in January. The ...
Royal Mail is set to pass out of British hands for the first time in its 500-year history, after ministers approved a £3.6bn sale to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, known in business circles as the “Czech sphinx”. The Government will retain a “golden share” in the firm, ensuring it can influence major governance decisions. As part of the agreement, employees ...
TalkTalk is set to cut hundreds of jobs in a sweeping effort to slash costs by £120m, as the debt-burdened broadband provider embarks on a radical restructure to restore its financial health. In an update to investors last week, the company confirmed a “radical” overhaul, with initial redundancies already under consultation. Around 130 positions are set to go at its ...
Young workers twice as likely to take mental health leave as new UK research reveals scale of crisis
A surge in mental health-related absences among Britain’s youngest workers has underscored the urgent need for employers to rethink their approach to employee wellbeing. Fresh research from Unmind, a leading workplace mental health solutions provider, reveals that 30% of British Generation Z workers—equating to roughly 1.7 million young people—have been signed off work this year for mental health reasons. This ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s planned inheritance tax overhaul on family businesses and agricultural land risks backfiring by leaving the Exchequer £1bn worse off than if no changes were made, according to new economic analysis. A report by CBI Economics suggests that a forecasted fall in investment—resulting from tighter relief on inherited business assets—is likely to overshadow any additional inheritance tax revenue ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had two thoughts about President Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden after previously saying he would not, while talking to NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ host Kristen Welker on Sunday. ‘When you have his opponents going after his family as a father, as a parent, I think we can all understand Biden trying to protect his, his ...
JERUSALEM – President-elect Trump could be the key factor in stopping the reported Turkish destruction of the pro-U.S. Syrian Kurdish community, Fox News senior strategic analyst and retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane told Fox News’ Mark Levin on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ on Saturday. ‘Erdoğan is a real problem here. He has a corridor in northern Syria. He backed the radical leader who ...
Up in the air. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the Biden administration’s final bit of credibility on fire in the form of giant mysterious drones over New Jersey. As President Joe Biden limps away from one of the worst presidencies in American history, these unidentified flying objects, whatever they are, serve as a reminder that ...
Republican Brad Knott, who flipped North Carolina’s 13th District red in November, explained to Fox News Digital why he resigned as a federal prosecutor to run for Congress – and what his priorities will be once he’s sworn into the House next month. A lifelong North Carolinian and former longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney, Knott said that he considered it a ...
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said China is the ‘greatest threat’ to the United States and that President-elect Donald Trump will bring ‘peace through strength, not peace through appeasement.’ Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital the CCP is the ‘adversary we have to watch, both militarily and economically.’ ‘China ...