AMC sees ‘explosive start’ to Q3 due to ‘Barbenheimer’ frenzy
The strikes over pay in the streaming era have disrupted production of scripted series for the fall TV season and halted work on films.
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Premium bonds prize fund rises to highest level in 24 years
Millions of holders will also have increased chance of winning from September in NS&I drawMillions of holders of premium bonds will see the prize fund rise to its highest level in 24 years and their chances of winning a prize increase from Septembe…
Tuesday briefing: How the housing crisis is hitting tenants hardest
In today’s newsletter: No-fault evictions are rocketing, bills are ballooning and social housing lists are overloaded – what the statistics reveal about renting today and why urgent reform is needed• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition…
UK house prices drop again as Halifax says first-time buyers are switching to smaller homes
Decline in July is fourth monthly fall in a row with prices dropping by 2.4% on an annual basis, says lenderThe average UK house price has fallen for the fourth month in a row, according to Halifax, which says higher borrowing costs are increasingly pu…
Strongest Sign Yet Australia Heads Toward a Totally Cashless Society?
The Australian news service 9News reports on the “strongest sign yet” that Australia is headed toward a “totally cashless society… the number of notes in circulation officially declining for the first time since dollars and cents were introduced in 1…
Help-to-buy paperwork delays still endangering property sales and remortgages
Households fear being thousands of pounds out of pocket as problems beset Homes England administratorHomeowners who used the government’s help-to-buy loan scheme to buy a property are still reporting delays in getting hold of vital paperwork, weeks aft…
Some Wells Fargo Customers Say Their Deposits Aren’t Showing Up in Their Accounts
“For the second time this year, Wells Fargo acknowledged that deposits were not showing up in customers’ accounts,” reports NBC News:
In an emailed statement Friday morning, a Wells Fargo representative said the issue was affecting a “limited number o…
Austrian Leader Proposes Enshrining the Use of Cash In His Country’s Constitution
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Austria’s leader is proposing to enshrine in the country’s constitution a right to use cash, which remains more popular in the Alpine nation than in many other places. Chancellor Karl Neham…
Childcare sector in England must not become ‘playground for private equity’, experts say
Exclusive: Increasing involvement of investment funds could leave nursery places at riskGolden goose: why private equity is eyeing up UK essential servicesEngland’s childcare sector risks becoming a “playground for private equity”, experts have said, a…
Tupperware stock jumps further after company seals debt restructuring deal
Tupperware held a market value of US$156.56 million as of Thursday’s close, after losing about 63 per cent off its value over the past 12 months.