Millionaire hedge fund bosses Sir Paul Marshall and Ian Wace make £50m on coronavirus crash By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 Millionaire hedge fund bosses Sir Paul Marshall and Ian Wace have made more than £50million from the collapse of leisure stocks … Read more
Shocking moment suspected car thief is punched so hard that he breaks a brick wall as he runs from scene of crash Part of the brick pillar of the garden wall breaks in two because of the force The passerby stops the hoodie wearing man in his tracks as he runs from scene More than … Read more
The doomed plane which crashed and killed young footballer Emiliano Sala broke up mid-air when the unlicensed pilot flew it too fast and lost control after a carbon monoxide leak, a report has found. The final report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that the single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft suffered an in-flight break … Read more
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The market slump seen over recent weeks is of similar magnitude to the one seen during the global financial crisis of 2008 with more than a fifth of value knocked off shares, but the reasons are very different. What causes a crash is as important as the fact that the market crashed, if not more … Read more
Under more normal circumstances a one-third crash in the price of oil might be a cause for celebration. It would mean cheaper motoring, lower costs for businesses and lower home-heating bills. But the global Covid-19 scare that caused the price crash and triggered a spine-chilling collapse in share prices on both sides of the Atlantic … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak must move to ‘vaccinate the economy’ against the shock of a coronavirus shutdown in the Budget, his predecessor George Osborne warned today. The former politician, who oversaw austerity in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, raised the spectre of banks refusing to lend money if businesses start going to the wall. … Read more
With markets opening on Monday morning to the biggest crash in oil price since the 1991 Gulf War, the big question for motorists is: will the cost of petrol drastically fall in the coming days? The price of Brent crude fell from $52 a barrel this time last week to as little as $35 this … Read more
Sick fraudsters have been branded ‘scum’ for seeking to cash in on the death of 17-year-old Olivia Alkir, who was killed in car crash caused by two boy racers. A fake crowdfunding page was set up less than 24 hours after Thomas Quick, 18, and a 17-year-old male – who cannot be named – were … Read more
BA stewardess, 25, wakes from coma after being injured in NYE horror crash with HGV that killed three colleagues near Heathrow Lauren Feeney was seriously injured when Toyota Yaris crashed near Heathrow Rachel Clark, 20, Dominic Fell, 23, and Joseph Finnish, 25, all died in the crash Ms Feeney’s friend has now revealed that she … Read more