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[ad_1] Cold Weather Payments have activated for hundreds of thousands of people as the mercury plummets this week. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has triggered the payments for 211,000 ahead of a cold spell expected to bring hazardous conditions to much of the country. National Severe Weather Warnings …

[ad_1] Cyber Monday buy now, pay later (BNPL) app usage hit $9.4 million this year, up 42.5%. (iStock) Consumers have moderated their spending in recent years as inflation takes hold, and the economy slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. While they’ve cut back on certain non-essentials, it is also clear …

[ad_1] Thousands of people are set to receive a £250 payment from this week through the Household Support Fund. The support fund is a Government scheme which provides pots of cash to local councils, who then give out the money to those in need. This can be in cash payments …

[ad_1] Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., reacts to the U.S.-U.K. militaries launching strikes against Houthis in Yemen and weighs in on the Iowa caucuses on The Bottom Line. Tesla and Volvo announced last week that they were suspending some of their production in Europe due to a shortage of components caused …

[ad_1] While it’s normal for house prices to rise in January following a quiet December, this price increase is the largest for January since 2020 and is more than double the 20-year average of +0.6 percent. However, Rightmove reports that average new seller asking prices are still 0.7 percent lower …

[ad_1] Jack Otter and ‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panelists discuss the market for airlines stocks. Alaska Airlines began preliminary inspections on a group of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft this weekend in the wake of the Jan. 5 incident in which a plug door blew off a MAX 9 midflight. The …

[ad_1] A desperate family who were forced to appeal a decision over support for nursing home fees has finally won its battle and recovered £90,000. Alan Royle, 87, was suffering from severe Parkinson’s disease and dementia before he passed away in 2021. With his nursing home fees reaching around £5,000 …

[ad_1] JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the Federal Reserve’s rate trajectory, 2024 economy, looming bank regulations and artificial intelligence. As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize the world around us, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicts that the technology will have a “tremendous” impact on healthcare and finance. HOW AI …

[ad_1]  Making money in no way needs to be boring. It can, however, sound boring. Sometimes we read a side-hustle that is so grey it actually does a full 360 and becomes funny. Whether it’s selling toilet roll holders, sleeping, queueing or any scintillating hustle that belongs next to a …

[ad_1] An electric double-decker bus caught fire in the southwest section of London, Wimbledon, last week. Credit: @Ben423952659513 on X via Storyful An electric double-decker bus caught fire in southwest London on Thursday, prompting the city’s transportation agency to remove a fleet from service as a precaution while the incident …