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Can troubled Thames Water avoid collapse?

The water company that supplies clean water and removes waste for a quarter of the UK is, quite simply, drowning in debt. When the company was privatised in 1989, it had no debt. But over the years it borrowed heavily and is currently £15.4bn in debt. A large proportion of that was added when Macquarie, […]

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Man City’s Erling Haaland wins Premier League Golden Boot

May 19, 2024, 02:57 PM ET Erling Haaland scored 27 goals in the Premier League for Manchester City this season. Naomi Baker/Getty Images Erling Haaland won the Premier League Golden Boot for the second successive season after notching up 27 goals in Manchester City’s title winning campaign. City sealed their fourth consecutive league title on Sunday […]

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‘Never Trump?’ ‘Never Biden’ voters might loom larger.

Certain Democrats trying to cope with President Biden’s continually underwhelming 2024 poll numbers share an article of faith: the ceiling theory. All Biden needs to do is rally allies who are unenthusiastic about him — particularly young, Black and Hispanic voters — against Donald Trump. The former president’s ceiling, after all, has proved to be […]

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ECB Initiates Initial DLT Trials for Wholesale Central Bank Money Settlement

Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. European Central Bank (ECB) is leading a cooperative effort to investigate the ability of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to resolve wholesale transactions utilizing central bank funds. The preliminary stages of examinations will involve […]

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Infected blood scandal: Surge in hepatitis C tests

There has been a surge in demand for hepatitis C tests since the BBC revealed that hundreds of people in the UK were unknowingly infected with the virus, the Hepatitis C Trust says. Up to 27,000 people caught it when they were given transfusions with infected blood from the 1970s until 1991. According to BBC […]

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