Rishi Sunak slaps dividend ban on big companies: New jobs lifeline has strings attached to stop firms taking advantage By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 24 September 2020 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 24 September 2020 Britain’s biggest firms have been told they cannot pay dividends, dish out bonuses or sack staff … Read more
MONTANARO UK SMALLER COMPANIES: Industrials-focused fund aims for growth over income By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 18 September 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 18 September 2020 What is it? The Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Trust invests in small firms listed on the London Stock Exchange and the junior market AIM. … Read more
It could take another four years to manufacture enough of a coronavirus vaccine to immunise the entire world population, even if one is found in the coming months, experts have warned. One of the world’s biggest vaccine producers, the Serum Institute of India, claimed that companies won’t be able to produce jabs fast enough to … Read more
JUPITER US SMALLER COMPANIES: Trust manager Robert Siddles is the value investor who seeks out born winners By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 12 September 2020 It was a busy lockdown for the manager of investment trust Jupiter US Smaller Companies as he sought … Read more
NASA has announced it wants to buy Moon rocks from private companies in a bid to kick start lunar mining operations. The space agency is taking proposals from companies on how they will collect rock from the Moon, using robotic surface rovers. NASA then plans to purchase the samples in amounts of 50 to 500 … Read more
Large multinational companies and their wide-reaching supply chains are to blame for almost one fifth of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. A study found the true carbon footprint of companies such as Total and BP is concealed due to how emissions are reported. Scientists from the UK and China mapped emissions generated by multinationals’ assets … Read more
Rail companies will slash one in ten services as passenger numbers struggle to bounce back after lockdown Some trains on hourly services will now be cut to running every two hours Operators are focusing their resources on commuter and school services Sundays will be hardest hit, operating at 76 per cent of the normal timetable … Read more
Vaping companies took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic by offering products that were in short supply, a new study suggests. Researchers found ads in which customers could get a free roll of toilet paper, face masks or a bottle of hand sanitizer with a purchase of e-cigarettes or vape liquids. Others companies urged the public … Read more
Pope Francis has urged world leaders to only give coronavirus bailouts to companies which protect the environment and help the needy. The 83-year-old pontiff said the pandemic has laid bare inequalities in the world, and it would be a ‘scandal’ if leaders missed the opportunity to fix them. As countries race to return to ‘normal’, … Read more
Even by their own breathtaking standards of arrogance, it takes some weapons-grade chutzpah for private equity companies to come wheedling for a bailout in the form of loans backed by the British taxpayer. They are, after all, supposed to be ultra-capitalists who make their millions by sheer talent and enterprise. It takes even more cheek … Read more