Nathan Bissitt, Author at Business Ideas UK

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FTSE 100 slips as Centrica shares plunge

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Centrica shares fell to a 14 year low after the British Gas owner warned on profits and announced a sharp fall in customers.The company said it had lost 823,000 domestic customer accounts since the end of June.Centrica’s shares plunged about 15% to 138.3p,

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Russian Fancy Bear hackers' UK link revealed

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

When Russia’s most notorious hackers hired servers from a UK-registered company, they left a trove of clues behind, the BBC has discovered.The hackers used the computers to attack the German parliament, hijack traffic meant for a Nigerian government website and

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Cardiff-based Ticketline (UK) placed into liquidation

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Customers with outstanding tickets from Ticketline (UK) could miss out as the company is placed into liquidation.Insolvency firm CVR Global has been called in after the company, based on Westgate Street, Cardiff, suffered a downturn in trade.Customers who paid on

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Reality Check: stamp duty cut

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

The claim: Changes to stamp duty will save an average of £1,700 to first-time buyers.Reality Check verdict: The average first-time buyer would indeed save about £1,700 in stamp duty, but for some people it’s likely that would be more than offset by increased

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Bank of England pays male staff a quarter more than women

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Male staff at the Bank of England are paid almost a quarter more than female employees, according to its latest gender pay gap report. The median pay gap – based on the midpoints in the ranges of hourly earnings for men and women at the Bank – was 24.2%

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Bank of England pays women 24% less than men

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

The Bank of England on average pays women 24% less than men, latest figures reveal. It is a much bigger disparity than the 9% gender pay gap among all UK employees. Governor Mark Carney said men and women at the Bank were paid equally for doing the same role but the

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Mitsubishi division falsified some product data

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

A member of the Mitsubishi group has become the latest Japanese company to be caught out over quality control after admitting it falsified data about some products.Mitsubishi Materials said three of its divisions had falsified data for products supplied to the

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Budget 2017: Stagnant earnings forecast 'astonishing'

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Media playback is unsupported on your device The prediction that average UK earnings in 2022 could still be less than in 2008 is “astonishing”, according to an independent economic think tank.Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies,

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Skype pulled from China mobile app stores

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Access to Skype is being challenged in China as Beijing continues to crack down on communications services it cannot access. Microsoft’s video and voice chat service is the latest in a series of internet services which have been blacklisted in the country due to

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Consumer spending rebounds to boost growth

ByNathan BissittNovember 23, 2017

Consumer spending and business investment picked up in the third quarter of the year to help accelerate growth in the economy, according to official figures. In its second estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the three months to September, the Office for