Black Rock Coffee Bar’s IPO today will test investor appetite for restaurant stock listings amid tech fever
This week has seen a series of initial public offerings from tech companies, including market debuts from the flexible payments fintech Klarna Group...
30-year mortgage rate drops to lowest level in almost a year
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in nearly a year, reflecting a pullback in...
Luxury fragrance has a design problem. Rare Beauty has a fix
Luxury perfume brands have always poured resources into elaborate packaging with bottles shaped like sky-high stilettos, sculpted torsos, or capped with oversize daisies....
Marnie Swindells: ‘I must make sure Lord Sugar knows he made the right decision’
By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Welcome to Small Business Snippets, the...
UK sick days hit 15-year high as mental health drives long-term absences
British workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the past 15 years, with staff absent for the equivalent of...
UK suffers steepest hiring slump in Europe as Reeves’s tax raid bites
Britain has recorded the steepest decline in hiring intentions of any major European economy, as employers struggle with the fallout from last autumn’s...
HMRC staff take 500,000 sick days a year as millions of taxpayer calls go unanswered
Staff at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have taken more than half a million sick days in each of the past three years,...
Sadiq Khan urged to give hospitality rent and rates holiday during tube strikes
Hospitality businesses across London should be given a rent and business rates holiday to help them cope with the disruption caused by tube...
UK Farmers feel ‘abandoned’ as thousands of Countryside Stewardship contracts end
Farmers across England say they feel “abandoned” as thousands of long-standing environmental land management contracts are due to expire at the end of...
OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring
Home Start Ups OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring OpenAI executives are discussing a...