After ordering a £47 dress from an ethical brand, Lucy Thackray found herself waiting weeks for its arrival. Then she had to wait a little longer. In a landscape of endless stock and next-day delivery, will new customers be convinced to give green a go?
The Federal Reserve's decision last year to begin jacking up interest rates to cool the economy may finally be taking hold. The latest evidence for that is April's jobs report which shows a huge drop in new jobs added from March's 303,000 to April's 175,000. This raised the unemployment rate to 3.9%.
Consumer demand has slowed despite an increase in income levels, said the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) as it yet again kept the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 0.25 per cent for the fifth year running. This, it said, was indicated by lower annual growth in VAT collections and a reduction in consumption loans. Meanwhile,
Slower jobs growth and easing wage pressures are good news for rate cuts.
FOLLOWING all the excitement of world-class racing at Sha Tin last Sunday, it’s back to Happy Valley in Hong Kong today, with the city-track hosting a nine-race programme, featuring the France Galop Cup (2.45pm), a handicap over six furlongs. When is it going to stop raining in Hong Kong? Weather conditions didn’t make it easy []
Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn's gravitational pull and deforms from a spherical shape into a football shape and back again. This cyclic stress causes a phenomenon called "tidal heating" within Enceladus and dissipates enough energy to maintain what is believed to be a global ocean underneath the moon's icy crust.
Rilmenidine, a drug typically used to treat hypertension, has demonstrated remarkable effects in slowing down aging in worms.
US cable operator Charter Communications added 486,000 mobile lines in Q1 which represented a 2.9 per cent drop from the number acquired a year ago.
Chinese vendor ZTE booked modest profit and revenue gains in the opening quarter of 2024, highlighting a shift beyond its core telecoms business as domestic operators encounter pressure from a downbeat investment environment.
A first-of-its-kind study shows conservation is worth investing in, researchers say.
Two Dutch claim organisations are starting a legal case against Apple for deliberately slowing the operating systems for the iPhone 6, 7 and first generation SE iPhones. The models were released between 2016 and 2018 and ConsumentenClaim says, Apple provided users with software updates that reduced performance and concealed an underlying battery defect. “This means the iPhones were slower and did not work as they should. And Apple users were not told,” the foundation said, which is working with...
Donovan Mitchell likely will have surgery on his ailing left knee when the Cavaliers season comes to an end, but the way he sees it there is plenty of basketball to play first. The Cavaliers took a major step in their development when they eliminated the Orlando Magic in a hard-fought, seven-game series that ended […]