All news by author: Lawrence Matheson

HSBC dominated UK dividend payments over 2023, global financial services firm Computershare found.

Unison said its members at Colchester City Council have not had a pay rise for almost a decade

The company's American business, which last year had to deal with a major warehouse problem, now faces a "weak consumer backdrop", it said.

Analysis by Rightmove found homes listed in February have taken 51 days to find a buyer on average, just ahead of March at 52 days

The number of current account customers ditching and switching their bank or building society reached a record high in the final quarter of 2023, according to the Current Account Switch Service (Cass)

Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service

The business said that while it had seen its best Christmas for four years, customers still seem to be feeling the pressures of the cost of living, which has soared over the last two years

The rail operator said it carried 18.6 million passengers in 2023, returning to pre-pandemic levels

Jaime Gilinski Bacal will join the board as a non-executive director and will help oversee how the business is run

The firm said that it wanted to save around £150 million per year, and would cut back around 500 jobs as a result

Online retailer eBay will cut about 1,000 jobs, or an estimated 9% of its full-time workforce, saying its number of employees and costs have exceeded how much the business is growing in a slowing economy

The TUC and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) urged ministers to reconsider the "ill-judged proposal".

The influential S&P Global/CIPS flash UK purchasing managers' index (PMI) reported a reading of 52.5 in January, up from 52.1 in December

The pub chain said that it had reduced the number of sites it operates by 12 since the start of the period

The changes were announced as another major lender said it is tweaking some of its mortgage rates upwards.

The supermarket chain has scrapped the four-day working week for head office staff after complaints about working on weekends, meaning 2,000 staff will work 37.5 hours over a four-and-a-half-day week

Shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds claimed he was "begging" the Government not to make an irreversible decision on Wales's steel industry as he called for further action to prevent the loss of thousands of jobs in Port Talbot

The final cost of the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, being built in Somerset, could be as much as £35 billion, according to the French firm developing it

The guide has been launched to give people accessible advice on crimes such as romance and impersonation scams

The Music Venue Trust has called for political parties to require the "most successful parts" of the music industry to pay towards the cost of smaller venues in their forthcoming general election manifestos

The ad for the AGA eR7 Series on the agaliving.com website stated that the range offered the lowest running costs for any heat-storage cast-iron range cooker

The new partnership will see the energy supplier's PeakSave scheme be introduced to the tech giant's smart home monitoring app, SmartThings

The average annual cost of monthly payments was £892, while the cost of paying annually in one go was £583.

The Chancellor will be given breathing room to cut taxes or boost spending, economists have said, as the Government borrowed less money than expected last month

The airline recorded a loss before tax of £126 million between October and December last year, down from £133 million during the same period in 2022