Commonwealth Games 2022. Birmingham Holly Hunt’s superb strike opened the scoring for England before Tess Howard deflected in a second minutes later ensuring England’s women’s hockey team won Commonwealth Games Gold for the first time with a 2-1 victory over Australia. Australia, however, scored a consolation strike with 19 seconds remaining. England won three…
Month: August 2022
In the past when the oil prices rose, Saudi Arabia, which sits on an estimated 80 years of oil reserves at the current rate of production, came to the rescue with a positive response, but during the 2008 spike that pushed the oil to $147 per barrel, Riyadh’s oil ministry formed a team to protect…
After the 2008 financial crisis, when the critical attention shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies, money, 2022, is turning out to be the year that puts the politics back into the monetary policy, with the impending fight for the next Conservative party leader between Rishi Sunak and Liz…
The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee has announced interest rates are rising from 1.25 per cent to 1.75 per cent. Interest rates have crossed the highest level since December 2008 after the biggest single rise since 1995, favoured by eight of the nine members of the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee who voted…
BP, the energy giant has reported its biggest quarterly profit for 14 years after oil and gas prices soared, hitting £6.9 bn ($8.45bn) between April and June – more than triple the amount it made in the same period last year, amid a typical household energy bills been forecast to hit more than £3, 600…
Max Verstappen of Red Bull, took his eighth win in 13 races and his 28th victory after driving from the 10th on the gird, leaving him with an 80-point lead over Leclerc, in the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Hungary. Verstappen passed title rival Charles Leclerc twice. Red Bull’s pit strategy vaulted Verstappen ahead of…