33 h. ago US stocks wipe out steep losses that followed Trump’s ‘liberation day’

Rally in Wall Street’s S&P 500 share index comes after 177,000 jobs added in labour data

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33 h. ago US economy beats expectations with 177,000 jobs added in April

Figures indicate labour market resilience despite Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal workforce

Politics

34 h. ago Markets rally after better than expected data shows US added 177,000 jobs in April – business live

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as US employment figures for April came in higher than expected with 177,000 jobs, boosting European markets as they hope for a thaw in US-China relationsEurozone unemployment was steady 6.2% in March – unchanged relative to a revised February reading.The youth unemployment rate was 14.2%, down from 14.3% in the previous month. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago She took £100,000 from her employer. Then she got a new job and did it again

Under the name Vikki Phillips the defendant Victoria King was jailed in 2014 for stealing £130,000 from the charity she was working for

Economics

3 d. ago UPS cites Trump tariffs as it announces expected layoffs of 20,000 workers

Company cites ‘current macro-economic uncertainty’ as sweeping tariffs discourage customers from shippingBusiness live – latest updatesThe United Parcel Service (UPS) is expected to cut about 20,000 jobs in 2025 as a part of a larger plan to reduce costs and increase profit, citing “changes in the global trade policy and new or increased tariffs”.UPS announced the layoffs on Tuesday in its first quarter earnings report. The parcel delivery service said it made consolidated revenues of $21.5bn, compared with $21.7bn about the same time a year ago. Additionally, the company said it would be shuttering 73 leased and owned buildings by the end of June of this year. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

Delivery group declines to update its outlook for the year owing to macroeconomic ‘uncertainty’

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4 d. ago UPS reveals it is cutting 20,000 jobs amid decrease in Amazon deliveries

Company also cited ‘uncertainty’ around wider global economy amid ongoing Trump tariffs

Society

8 d. ago The giant plan beside the M60 that could create 10,000 new jobs

Employment space, leisure facilities and a hotel are all earmarked

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9 d. ago Government plans to create 2,000 skilled jobs as part of clean energy initiative

It comes as part of the government's Plan for Change

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9 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer unveils £2bn carbon capture deal creating 2,000 jobs

Sir Keir promised to make Britain’s energy a ‘source not of vulnerability but of strength’

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9 d. ago Business news in two minutes: Unilever cuts 6,000 jobs, Asos sales dip and Rangers' 49ers takeover heats up

Watch today’s top business stories in under two minutes.

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9 d. ago Unilever cuts 6,000 jobs so far under ongoing revamp as ice cream spin

The consumer goods giant said it was ‘ahead of plan’ on the restructure, which will see 7,500 jobs cut worldwide.

Politics

1 week ago South of Scotland Enterprise officials claim agency has created and supported 10,000 jobs

The enterprise agency was officially launched in April 2020, with grants of more than £50million provided to businesses in that time.

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1 week ago Swiss drugmaker Roche to invest $50bn in US in effort to dodge Trump tariffs

Company says it will create 12,000 jobs in manufacturing and R&D over next five yearsBusiness live – latest updatesThe Swiss drugmaker Roche has said it will put $50bn (£37bn) into manufacturing in the US over the next five years, joining the queue of companies unveiling investments to try to head off potentially punitive Donald Trump tariffs.Roche said on Tuesday the investment would create more than 12,000 jobs, including 6,500 in construction and 1,000 at new and expanded existing facilities in the US, including factories and distribution centres in Kentucky, New Jersey and California. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectatorMany years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Its aim was to encourage kids to spending their summer holidays helping grannies across the street or litter-picking rather than lying on the sofa filling their faces with cheese puffs. If I’m anything to go by, it didn’t work.Moral Ambition is Why Don’t You? for grownups, written by a Dutch historian but deploying psychologically sophisticated nudge techniques, shaming devices and a hectoring imperative mood to encourage clever if spiritually bankrupt people like you (no offence) to do something beyond making mortgage payments by means of a job you hate. Don’t you realise that the average worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job and, judging by the look of you (again, no offence), 79,999 of th...

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2 w. ago Former teacher with no tech experience shares four resume changes he made to land job at Google

In 2015, Keith Anderson, now 36, left his $27,000-a-year job as an English teacher to pursue a position at a Big Tech company.

Society

2 w. ago Marks & Spencer unveils £90 million investment in London food halls

The investment pipeline is set to create 450 new jobs and will add more than 70,000 sq ft of store space.

Economics

2 w. ago China says economy beat expectations to grow 5.4% ahead of Trump tariff war

Beijing expects Trump tariffs to put ‘certain pressures’ on its trade and economy

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2 w. ago DWP confirms new tailored job support for 100,000 sick and disabled people each year

The five-year plan aims to help people with long-term health issues or a disability find and stay in work.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer promises an extra 3,000 neighbourhood officers on Britain's streets by next year

The Prime Minister, speaking on a visit to a police headquarters in Cambridgeshire, said the recruits would be 'on the beat... not stuck behind a desk'.

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