My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, June 10 1. Disney will pay $438.7 million to CNBC parent Comcast to take full control of streaming service Hulu. Disney, which we own for the Club, had already paid $8.6 billion to Comcast. I’m talking to Disney CEO Bob Iger on “Squawk on the Street” this morning….
UK net migration is expected to fall to 200,000 in 2026 with possible resulting labour shortages in the hospitality and retail sectors, an independent adviser to the government has said. Prof Brian Bell, the chair of the migration advisory committee, said the figure was then predicted to rise again to just below 300,000 in the…
At least 10 people have been killed and more seriously injured in a shooting at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz, authorities have said. The mayor of Graz, Elke Kahr, said the presumed shooter and several students were among the fatalities in the attack, the deadliest in Austria’s postwar history. Local…
The Paramount Studios in Los Angeles on April 29, 2024. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Paramount Global is cutting its U.S.-based staff by 3.5%, the latest round of layoffs at the media company as it contends with the decline of the traditional pay-TV bundle and macroeconomic headwinds. The company notified its staff of…
A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence has led to an increase in infections in several regions of the world. First identified at the end of January, the variant—called NB.1.8.1 but known informally as “Nimbus”—is a descendant of the Omicron family of Covid sublineages,…
Thames Water should be placed into temporary government control to avoid setting a “deeply troubling precedent”, according to bondholders who face losing all of their money in the latest rescue bid. The struggling utility is under the control of a group of lenders who hold the bulk of its huge £20bn debt pile. Those “senior”…
People wait in line for T-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an initial public offering earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Robinhood shares sold off on Monday as the online brokerage…
Marks & Spencer has reopened its website to shoppers, six weeks after it was forced to halt online orders after a cyber-attack. On its website, M&S said customers “can now place online orders with standard delivery to England, Scotland and Wales”. It added that it would resume click and collect, next-day and nominated-day delivery and…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The Los Angeles District Attorney has said the county does not need the national guard and the marines, saying there are “more than enough” local police to deal with rioting. Nathan J. Hochman said: “We in Los Angeles county have tens…
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Merck’s shot designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus during their first season of the virus, bringing to market a rival to a similar treatment from Sanofi and AstraZeneca. The decision will allow the company to launch the drug, which will be marketed as Enflonsia, ahead…
