In the red dirt near Laverton in Western Australia, two rows of poles sit side by side, stretching three kilometres into the distance. They are antennas — 480 sets of them — and they are just one part of a…
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Sam Watt
Sam Watt is a veteran companies market cap and value news writer, author, and columnist who began his career in 1980. With over four decades of experience, Sam specializes in analyzing company market valuations, corporate histories, and sector-specific developments across the auto, food, and broader consumer industries. His work offers readers deep insights into the forces shaping business growth, historical market shifts, and the evolving dynamics of corporate value. Known for his sharp analysis and factual storytelling, Sam continues to be a trusted voice in financial journalism.
The UK’s job market has continued to weaken with the number of workers on payrolls falling in the first few months of the year and job vacancies declining again. Analysts said the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics…
LONDON — When Britain’s Supreme Court made its landmark ruling last month that only biological women are women, some people said it helped settle the long, contentious debate over the rights of transgender people and their access to single-sex spaces. In…
The Bank of England has cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, citing lower UK inflation. The move, which had been widely expected, brings the main cost of borrowing in Britain to 4.25%. It is…
The British government made faster economic growth its No. 1 mission. But efforts to kick-start it have been repeatedly knocked off course by a global economy lurching from one crisis to another. On Thursday, British officials secured a win. They…
WeightWatchers, the 62-year-old program that revolutionized dieting for millions of people around the world, has filed for bankruptcy. The company announced Tuesday it has entered Chapter 11, which “will bolster its financial position, increase investment flexibility in its strategic growth initiatives,…
Novo Nordisk scored a huge legal victory that largely restricts compounding pharmacies from marketing or selling cheaper, unapproved versions of the drugmaker’s blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic. A federal judge in Texas late Thursday rejected a bid…
Tesla has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit by a Black female employee who claimed a manager at its Fremont, California, plant sometimes greeted workers by saying “welcome to the plantation” or “welcome to the slave house.” Raina Pierce, who installed…
The Trump administration is using personal data normally protected from dissemination to find undocumented immigrants where they work, study and live, often with the goal of removing them from their housing and the workforce. At the Department of Housing and…
Thomas Kinkade was one of the best-selling artists in history, as well as one of the most divisive. When he died in 2012, the American painter had been rocked by business problems, but at his commercial peak a decade earlier,…
