The Metaverse is Coming - But At What Cost?
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Nov 28, 20214 min read
AI Market to Reach $360 Billion by 2028
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become immensely popular as industries worldwide rapidly integrate it into their processes to improve...
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Biden’s Build Back Better Bill Hangs in the Balance
President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill has received bipartisan support after a lengthy negotiation period and has been signed...
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Market Roundup
Spotlight on a company – Nordstrom US luxury department store chain Nordstrom plunged 25% on Wednesday 23rd November following poor...
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Has COP26 Given us Reason to Be Optimistic?
Just three years ago at COP24 in Katowice, US President Trump dismissed all mention of the IPCC report urging countries to work towards a...
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Argentina seeks to close deal with IMF over $44 billion debt
The Argentinian government is unable to repay an outstanding $44 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund and is struggling to...
Nov 28, 20212 min read
Coca Cola splurges $5.6 billion for full control of Bodyarmor
In an attempt to challenge PepsiCo Inc’s dominance in the sports drink arena, Coca Cola has spent $5.6 billion for full control of...
Nov 28, 20213 min read
A Banker and an Automaker Walk into a Bar...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: what do you get when the world’s biggest automaker upsets the largest bank in the US? The answer...
Nov 14, 20214 min read
Privacy vs Profits: How Apple’s New Preferences Cost Big Tech $10bn
Apple’s iOS 14.5 update last April saw the introduction of a new prompt allowing users to ask apps not to track their data. This is all...
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Market Roundup
Spotlight on a Company – Pfizer Inc Pfizer Inc (PFE) share price soared this week by over 10%, closing on Friday at 11.13. This followed...
Nov 14, 20214 min read
How to Secure an Internship in Investment Banking
Currently President of Leeds Trading and Investment Society, Dan was a former TMT Analyst at Leeds Finsights. During his first year, he...
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Offshore Wind in The US: Underutilised and Under Resourced
In 2016, the Environment America Research & Policy Center identified the USA’s potential offshore wind production rate to be nearly...
Nov 14, 20213 min read
El Salvador – the first country to make Bitcoin a legal tender
On 8 June 2021 the Central American country El Salvador accepted a law which officially made bitcoin a national currency. You may be...
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Follow the money: Trump’s media merger with SPAC proves lucrative for some
Donald Trump’s social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), announced on 20th October 2021 it was going public via a...
Nov 14, 20213 min read
McAfee to be acquired by a consortium of investors for $14 Billion
Cyber security titan McAfee announced on Monday 8 November that it will go private in a deal with a consortium of investors led by...
Oct 31, 20212 min read
MI5, MI6, and GCHQ to store classified data on AWS Cloud Computing
MI5, MI6, and GCHQ have agreed to, what is estimated to be, a £500 million to £1 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud...
Oct 31, 20212 min read
Australia faces criticism over 2050 carbon net zero pledge
Australia, one of the world’s leading coal and gas suppliers, has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Australia joins a...
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Market Roundup
Spotlight on a Company NatWest struggled with their share price this week despite a surge in profits in the third quarter. They set aside...
Oct 31, 20213 min read
The Key to your Dream Grad Job? Spring Weeks, Internships, Placements…
The graduate job market can be a tough place to navigate, but luckily, there are some things that can be done to improve students’...
Oct 31, 20213 min read
What COP26 means for Finance
The United Nations climate summit, COP26, takes place in Glasgow this week. Whilst there were multiple setbacks in the lead up to the...
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