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Business Briefing UK
The latest Business news, pictures, analysis, briefings, comments and opinions from The Week so afr in the UK.
We are connected directly to the financial market in the UK. With all the latest information from The London Stock Exchange – connected to all Indices like the FTSE100 FTSE500 FTSE 250 and FTSE350.
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is arguably one of the most important exchanges globally. The LSE is the primary stock exchange in the U.K. and the largest in Europe.
The LSE provides many indices which are used to gain an oversight of markets, capitalisation and underlying performance in the economy. What this means in general terms is that the global investors monitor these indices in order to test and monitor the potential for investment and businesses fertility within the UK markets.
Financial Times Stock Exchange FTSE100
We are always monitoring the top 10 Risers and top 10 Fallers – you can View the Price on our market index.
You can, of course, monitor the FTSE100 on the London Stock Exchange website, however, we also provide the analysis as to why the market has moved in certain ways.
The Opening Ceremony at the London Stock Exchange
A very popular weekly ritual at the London Stock Exchange is the Market’s Opening Ceremony and a variety of global guests are often invited to open trading and close it. Each week you can monitor this at WTX News to stay up to date with who opened trading this week.
Opening Trading in London is often done by the CEO of FTSE500 companies and major financial players.
WTX Business News on Twitter
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We provide breaking news instantly as it breaks on Twitter. Sometimes it is more important to follow the updates as the break. So you should follow us and refer back to the WTX News website where we will have analysed the information in more detail.
Here we also look at the landmark moments of 2019 which made an impact on global lives and commerce as we know it.
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The worldās most diverse and international stock exchanges reviewed, monitored and analysed from the heart of the worldās leading financial centre.
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Global Financial Centres
A financial centre is defined by the IMF as encompassing. AĀ financial centreĀ is an area where there is a high concentration ofĀ financialĀ institutions.
The area may be a city, county, or somewhere larger.Ā Financial centresĀ have the best commercial and communications infrastructure where people conduct huge volumes of international and domestic trading transactions.
What is a Financial Hub
AĀ financial hub, also known as aĀ financial centre by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is a city or region where a large number and variety ofĀ financialĀ services institutions are headquartered.
International Financial Centres, such as New York City, London Stock exchange and Tokyo; Regional Financial Centres, such as Frankfurt, Chicago and Karachi, Hong Kong, Sydney; and Offshore Financial Centres, such as Cayman Islands, Dublin, and Singapore.
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The GlobalĀ Financial CentresĀ Index (GFCI) is a ranking of the competitiveness ofĀ financial centresĀ based on over 29,000Ā financial centre assessments from around the world.
Small Business News UK
The Business newsĀ section onĀ WTX News willĀ keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and existing businesses in the SME markets.
Business Matters, UK’s largestĀ business section for entrepreneurs, start-up & smallĀ and medium-enterprise (SME).Ā Business news, advice & interviews. We are connected in all the co-working and business hubs around the globe and bring you the information you need daily.
A new globalĀ businessĀ survey has found thatĀ UK smallĀ firms are the least likely to invest during the remainder ofĀ 2019Ā as the threat of aĀ UK recession in 2020, we will keep you updated to show you how this changes with Brexit.
We also offer analysis on other publications like BBC business News and The Times small Business section to keep them accountable. With so much bias and propaganda in the markets; It is important to get a diverse and complete overview of the market only at WTX Business News.
Business News and Brexit
We’ll be bringing you all the latestĀ news, opinions and advice onĀ BrexitĀ and on what Boris Johnson, MPs, Parliament andĀ businessĀ leaders are doing.
Discover more aboutĀ Brexit and its impact of business on WTXNews.com and enjoy our analysis of the topics that matter most to you. Thought-Provoking Content evaluated to the smallest of details. We often cut back from the nonsense that so many publish and give you aĀ global perspective.
It is important to also stay up to date with the latest financial news people and how they stand on Brexit news today.
The Sun says THOUSANDS on Universal Credit will miss out on the Ā£650 cost of living payment due to a loophole in the rules.
The Independent says the UK property rental market is shrinking drastically, leading a new report to warn rents could be driven up.
Daily Mirror says Customers of 10 banks including Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide and Monzo have been locked out of their bank accounts this morning.
Sky News says shop prices grew at the fastest rate in more than a decade during May, spurred on by rapidly-accelerating food inflation.
The Guardian says Ministers have cancelled a contract with P&O Ferries after it sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice in March.
The Daily Mirror says Barclays is closing another 27 bank branches, and will have closed 103 by the end of the year.
The Guardian says the average price of a UK home has topped Ā£250,000 for the first time, but the proportion of sellers reducing their asking price and the time taken to sell a home have both increased, according to Zooplaās latest market index.
The Guardian says Rishi Sunak will push the button on a controversial windfall tax on energy companies on Thursday, as he lays out measures to ease the pain of rising household bills.
The Independent says Average asking prices for UK properties have jumped Ā£55,000 since the start of the pandemic, with no slowdown in the “frenetic” market despite the cost of living crisis, new figures show.
Mark Zuckerberg named in lawsuit from Cambridge Analytica scandal in a lawsuit filed by Washington Attorney General Karl Racine. Facebook…
A handful of millionaires attendees gathered in Davos are calling on world leaders to push tax up higher for wealthy people (like themselves) to tackle the cost of living crisis.
The Guardian says Boris Johnson hopes to blunt calls for urgent action on the cost of living crisis by stressing that work is the best route out of poverty, as an energy firm boss warned that 40% of households could soon be in fuel poverty.
Elon Musk denies sexual harassment allegations on Twitter against an Expose by Business Insider. They suggest that he sexually harassed…
The Guardian says consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the cost of living crisis.
The Independent says the director of a multi-million dollar ad campaign for a bitcoin exchange has said he has āno idea how cryptocurrency worksā after being questioned about the recent market crash.
BBC Sport says ministers are facing growing calls to bring forward large increases in benefits and the state pension which will be paid from next April.
The Guardian says UK inflation soared to 9% in April ā its highest level for more than 40 years ā as the rising cost of gas and electricity pushed household energy bills to record levels.
The Guardian says Elon Musk has suggested that he could seek to pay a lower price for Twitter, as the social media companyās would-be owner expressed further concerns about the presence of fake accounts on the platform.
BBC News says some of the poorest households in England and Wales are struggling to access council tax rebates to help offset their soaring energy bills, a charity has warned.
Fast food giant McDonaldās has announced it will permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and has already started selling its restaurants there.
Daily Mirror says Holidaymakers who had booked a P&O Cruises holiday to the Canary Islands were left disappointed when the firm isolated them for hours without enough food, heat or seating
Elon Musk has said his billion dollar deal to but Twitter is currently on hold after he queried the number of fake or spam accounts on the platform.
The Guardian says shockwaves swept through cryptocurrency markets on Thursday as tether, the largest āstablecoinā and a foundational part of the digital asset ecosystem, broke its peg to the dollar in the latest blow to the struggling sector.
The Independent says the price of the Terra (LUNA) cryptocurrency has fallen by more than 99 per cent, wiping out the fortunes of crypto investors.