‘I was a gambling addict who stole £1.3m and went to prison’
Andy May, who has just got out of prison, wants to help other people with gambling addictions.
Andy May, who has just got out of prison, wants to help other people with gambling addictions.
Morgan Stanley is close to an agreement to pay $200 million to $300 million to settle a US investigation into its employees’ handling of big stock sales, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The penalty, expected to be announced in the coming days, will be divided between the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the report said, citing people with knowledge of…
Listen to article (2 minutes) Move over GMOs and high-fructose corn syrup. There is a new phrase making the food industry pucker: ultra-processed foods. A battle is brewing over the latest term for many packaged food products that manufacturers fear could infiltrate U.S. food policy and scare off consumers. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company,…
For travelers trying to reach their destinations during the storm-tossed holiday season last year, there was no problem identifying the Grinch who stole Christmas: It was Southwest Airlines. Southwest, it may be recalled, canceled or delayed more than 16,900 flights between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, stranding more than 2 million passengers. The meltdown kept…
Big banks held up well in 2023, even though the Federal Reserve continued to raise interest rates at a fast clip. Reports on fourth-quarter bank earnings, which start this week, should show how the banks’ customers fared in the harsher rate environment. So far, households have continued to spend and borrow, despite higher borrowing costs,…
New York City is months away from introducing the first zone-based tolling program in the U.S. The project, which begins in the spring of 2024, will increase the tolls drivers pay to enter points of Manhattan south of 60th Street. The final price of the toll is not yet determined. People close to the process…
Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation. Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…