Brook & Ledger — UK business, markets, and money — for people who read the numbers first.
The FTSE 100 dropped on Thursday morning, as the mining sector dragged on the blue-chip index. Antofagasta has fallen furthest, by nearly five per cent, after investors pounced on a production shortfall and cut to…
Read moreThe next phase of devolution should focus less on how funding is distributed and more on how growth is rewarded, says Gus Wiseman For more than 30 years, governments have tried to rebalance England’s economy by directing…
Read moreWe may think it is easy to try to predict how a major tax announcement may impact sentiment based on whether it’s a give or a take. but the evidence shows, there’s no clear correlation between tax cuts and positive…
Read moreThis summer should be the catalyst for designing around the one we now face, says Alastair Chisholm More than two thirds of England is now in drought. Hosepipe bans are widespread and, should they prove insufficient…
Read moreDon’t worry – the team’s not going anywhere and the website, app, newsletters and studios will continue to fire on all cylinders. But since this is the last Editor’s Letter I’ll pen before we fire up the print presses…
Read moreGetting rid of graffiti would be my first step in recreating an orderly and civilised society They say that what gets measured gets managed. But so far we aren’t even measuring the problem! There is no good public data…
Read moreThe victims' commissioner for England and Wales found that many of the thousands afflicted each year by criminal driving felt that "the harm they had suffered mattered less" than that from other serious crimes. Almost…
Read moreHowever, the underlying, real-world data show that’s not really what’s happening at all. What consumers want from drink brands has shifted dramatically over the past five years and some producers have been slow to catch…
Read moreAccording to documents filed by the private markets juggernaut last Thursday, investors who roll their investment into the new vehicle risk losing their stake in a “compulsory transfer” in one of several areas in which…
Read moreInstead they raced camels – the backbone of a transportation industry in the barren landscape of what is now modern-day Saudi Arabia – with the winner earning its owners the coveted beachhead, important for trade and…
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