An old name reborn: MG sells its 20,000th car of the year amid booming demand for electric vehicles By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 16:51 EDT, 17 September 2021 | Updated: 05:24 EDT, 20 September 2021 MG has smashed its sales records amid booming demand for its electric vehicles. The British motoring brand … Read more
PensionBee losses widen in debut stock market year but boss hails booming customer numbers as assets reach £2bn PensionBee pre-tax losses grow by 145% on the same time last year to £12.8m The firm did see revenues, customer numbers and assets grow significantly Boss Romi Savova expects PensionBee to reach breakeven by the end of … Read more
Losses at struggling Aston Martin balloon as Covid causes collapse in luxury car demand but DBX sales offer ray of hope as it targets a turnaround Aston Martin’s pre-tax losses rose from £119.6m in 2019 to £466m in 2020 The group expects vehicle sales will hit 10,000 by the middle of the decade Sports and GT … Read more
More than £1billion was added to the value of Britain’s biggest builders yesterday as figures showed the housing market was in rude health. Shares in the top developers rose after the Bank of England said mortgage approvals had reached a 13-year high in 2020. The Bank said 103,381 loans were approved by lenders in December, … Read more
Collins English Dictionary has named ‘lockdown’ as the word of the year, which may come as no surprise to Britons who have swapped the Red Lion pub for Red Dead Redemption. Video games have soared in popularity in 2020 due to people spending more time staying at home, sometimes under ‘quarantine’ – the Cambridge Dictionary’s … Read more
Savers pile into America: Investors flock to funds with heavy exposure to the booming US stock market By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:56 BST, 22 October 2020 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 22 October 2020 Investors are flocking to global funds with heavy exposure to US stocks Savers looking to take advantage of … Read more
How galling it is to see China bouncing back from the global pandemic that it unleashed. While the rest of the world wrestles with fear, mistrust, unemployment, recession, stagnation, non-Covid health catastrophes, countless blighted lives and a ‘second wave’ of the virus, China is set to enter 2021 stronger than it was in January 2020. … Read more
China’s economy is seeing its fastest growth this year as Chinese firms grab market share from rivals struggling during the pandemic. After wrestling the world’s first outbreak to the ground in January and February, China has kept Covid-19 cases to a minimum and won praise from the WHO for its handling of the pandemic. Since … Read more
Garden centres and nurseries cheering booming sales as coronavirus pandemic prompts families to spruce up their homes By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 5 October 2020 Garden centres and nurseries are cheering booming sales as the coronavirus pandemic prompts families to spruce up their … Read more
Private jets have long been considered to be reserved just for the rich and famous – a luxury many of us could only dream of. But that is all changing, partly thanks to the coronavirus, according to claims from the 26 year-old chief executive of start-up private charter firm TailHail. Prices are also down, meaning … Read more