(Reuters) – The main UK stock indexes fell on Wednesday as investors digested mixed earnings reports, while caution reigned in global markets ahead of U.S. inflation data that could keep the Federal Reserve on course for more interest rate hikes. The blue-chip FTSE 100 slipped 0.2%, moving further away from a two-month peak hit earlier …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Admiral posted a 48% fall in pre-tax profit in the first half to 251.3 million pounds ($303.50 million) due to a “more turbulent cycle” and rising inflation, the UK motor insurer said on Wednesday. “Although, as expected, profit has decreased against last year, the unique conditions of the pandemic years make 2019 …
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(Reuters) – Britain will run out of monkeypox vaccines in about two to three weeks as the country has little more than 8,300 doses of vaccine left, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Shipments of a new order of 100,000 doses will not resume until late September, the report added citing an internal National Health …
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(Reuters) -Toni Minichiello, who guided Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill to the heptathlon gold at London 2012, has been banned for life after a disciplinary panel appointed by the UK Athletics (UKA) Board found him to have engaged in sexually inappropriate behaviour. Minichiello was provisionally suspended last year pending an investigation into complaints from female athletes. The …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s weather service on Tuesday issued an amber “Extreme Heat” warning for parts of England and Wales, with no respite in sight from hot dry conditions that have sparked fires, broken temperature records and strained the nation’s infrastructure. The amber warning — the second-most severe after red — will be …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British workers are spending more time working from home compared with pre-pandemic times despite the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, according to official data released on Tuesday that offered a glimpse of what the ‘new normal’ looks like. In March 2020 the global coronavirus outbreak triggered a radical redesign of swathes of the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – As a cost-of-living squeeze on household incomes looks set to worsen in the United Kingdom, here are how consumers are adapting to the rising prices of everything from food to energy: **FOOD: Nine out of 10 Britons say they are increasingly watching what they are spending as sales volumes at supermarkets fell …
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By Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) -Rising interest rates are helping Legal & General’s business, its chief executive said on Tuesday as the British life insurer recorded an above-forecast 8% rise in first-half operating profit and said it was on track to meet or beat its financial goals. Markets have fallen this year as central banks …
LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of nurses in England and Wales will vote next month on whether to strike in a row over pay, the trade union representing them said on Tuesday, threatening further disruption to an already understaffed health service. A strike ballot for nurses working in Britain’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British specialist insurer Just Group posted a 15% rise in first half underlying operating profit to 74 million pounds ($89.42 million) on Tuesday, as it restored an interim dividend of 0.5 pence per share. Many insurers scrapped dividends at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, following pressure from regulators. Just …
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