North Korea funds missile programme with stolen crypto, says UN February 7, 2022 North Korean cyber attacks have pilfered millions of dollars worth of crypto assets which are being used to fund the country's missile programme.
Is confidence returning to the cryptocurrency markets? February 7, 2022 The price of Bitcoin is currently around $42,500 - up two per cent since yesterday morning and 14 per cent since this time last week.
EP: 110 Sandown, Wetherby, Dublin Racing Festival & Hong Kong February 4, 2022 The Grade 1 Scilly Isles Chase at Sandown gives the novices a chance to show their possible Cheltenham credentials on Saturday. Wetherby stages the Grade 2 Towton Novices’ Chase over 3 miles on the same afternoon with more Festival hopefuls in action. Richard Bandey sends Saint Palais to Wetherby for the feature race, and he [...]
The ship’s taking on water, but Bitcoin could be the lifeboat we all need February 4, 2022 Jason Deane rounds up the crypto week, but has stark warnings over what lies ahead for UK wages.
New Zealand’s exit from isolation is only the first test February 4, 2022 After two years of harsh and emotionally devastating border controls, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the country will finally relax expensive hotel quarantine requirements for returning Kiwis. It will happen in stages, starting with New Zealand citizens coming from Australia; international students will be barred until April. But the test won’t be [...]
Editorial: This really isn’t that complicated: Less fiddling, lower taxes February 4, 2022 As the calendar flipped over to 2022, we asked on our front page – could it really be a happy new year? In truth we should have seen the bad news, delivered yesterday in a double whammy by the energy regulator and the Bank of England, coming. A combination of wholesale gas prices spiking, an [...]
The City View: Inflation crunch and Zencargo CEO on supply chain complexity February 3, 2022 Editor Andy Silvester talks inflation with Jack Barnett, Morning Wire’s Economics and Markets Correspondent, before discussing the supply chain crunch with Zencargo founder Alex Hersham.
Crypto markets drop as Facebook earnings threaten wider market recovery February 3, 2022 The price of Bitcoin is currently down by more than three per cent since yesterday morning to around $37,000.
As Johnson and Starmer dance to the same tune, politics will look for an outsider February 3, 2022 THIS week, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has invoked Margaret Thatcher in an effort to skewer Boris Johnson for ignoring Covid rules and attacked the Prime Minister for presiding over a policy of “low growth and high taxes”. It’s a strong position for Starmer to be in, as support for Johnson groans under the [...]
Heart Radio trumps Radio 1 by 2m listens February 3, 2022 Heart – the UK’s biggest commercial radio brand – celebrates its highest ever listening figures, for the second consecutive quarter with 10.3m listeners now tuning in each week – over 2m more listeners than Radio 1. The UK’s biggest commercial radio brand continues to grow in reach, hours and share, and welcomes nearly a quarter of a million new listeners as the nation tuned in [...]