The proportion of UK graduates that are unable to pay...
The Chinese middle class – those earning between $10,000 to $35,000 per annum – has furiously emerged in the last 15 to 30 years, growing to 300 million people, a number encompassing a larger population than the USA, but only 22% of China’s. Behind the headlines of 10% growth levels and unprecedented...
The cost of owning a family-sized home within the UK is now on average £1,500 per annum less than renting, according to research conducted by Halifax. Halifax’s survey used standard three-bedroom family homes and calculated that on average the monthly cost of buying a home is £600 (16%) cheaper than the £715...
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More than 1,000 Islamic investors and 15 global leaders will meet in London this week at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum. This is the first time the forum has been hosted outside of an Islamic polity and has brought mass financial intrigue as prime minister David Cameron has unveiled the first...
The UK energy secretary, Ed Davey, has ordered energy and gas suppliers within the UK to rapidly reveal their profit margins to their customers and regulatory supervisors as energy costs soar upwards on British Gas’s announcement of a 9.2% average price increase. British Gas announced on Thursday that it will raise its...
The US fiscal impasse has ended with the Senate agreeing a f...
Andrew Parker, Director General...
Libyan prime minister Ali Zidan has been freed just hours after his abduction on 10th October by an armed militia from the five-star, high-security Corinthia hotel compound in Tripoli, Libya’s capital. Dubai-based Al Arabiya television broadcast was able to televise images of the striking abduction early on Thursday morning as Zidan is...
Royal Mail shares are expected to appreciate 20% due to demand on their first day of trading when the company’s shares are floated in what Vincent Boland calls a “good old-fashioned privatisation.” The strength of the demand is being felt in intermediaries dealing with the sale. IG Group Plc, an English financial...
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