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BoE has given Lloyds the go ahead to pay dividends to shareholders

Amazon will sell Covid PCR test kits to travellers as the giant online retailer moves in on the Covid-19 market.

The online retailer will sell government-approved tests for £34.99 each and offer discounts for those bought in bulk, the Guardian reported today.

Travellers coming into the UK will be able to use the tests sold by Amazon for the UK’s day two and day eight “test-to-release” arrivals programmes.

The launch of Amazon’s international arrivals service has been tipped to be as early as later today, and it is expected to make the government’s approved list of suppliers imminently.

The news comes after reports of week-long waits for travellers to get their PCR results back during the busy Christmas period.

Last week travel testing company giant Qured said that PCR tests could face delays during the Christmas period because delivery providers work on reduced services.

Amazon said customers would get their test results via a secure Amazon website, within 24 hours of their sample reaching the company’s own lab based in Salford, where tests will be processed.

Amazon is already on the official list of Covid test providers having started selling testing kits in the UK earlier this month, but these could not be used by anyone taking a test before or after travelling.

NatWest has been fined 265 million pounds for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds, in the first criminal money laundering case against a British bank.

A gang deposited hundreds of millions of pounds in cash at around 50 branches of NatWest, prosecutors for Britain's financial regulator said on Monday, with at least one outlet receiving more than 40 million pounds.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/around-50-natwest-branches-involved-money-laundering-case-fca-2021-12-13/

We'll be ok for a divi payment this year, whoopee

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Market's dont like uncertainty Omicron fears have put the UK economy on a slippery slope

Happy Christmas from Halifax as HGV driver wins £100,000

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/press-releases/2021/halifax/happy-christmas-from-halifax-as-hgv-driver-wins-100000.html

British Airways and Ryanair have asked the UK Government for economic support. The airlines fear another ‘lost’ peak travel period this Christmas amid the spread, and likely travel restrictions, of the Omicron virus variant. Further compounding sector concerns

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/968956/ftse-100-runs-into-some-turbulence-as-airline-stocks-ask-government-for-handouts-968956.html

At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday

At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday

Major British airlines on Monday called on the government to remove testing rules for vaccinated passengers and provide economic support for the battered sector, as new travel rules were imposed to fight off the Omicron coronavirus variant.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-airlines-seek-government-aid-after-omicron-led-travel-restrictions-2021-12-13/

British airways have asked the government for economic support as new travel restrictions threaten to upend the peak Christmas season for a second year

Trade unions are pressing the UK’s largest mortgage lender Lloyds Bank to implement a four day working week without slashing pay.
Charlie Nunn, Lloyds’s fresh chief executive, to come good on his promise to support “families and work-life balance” by shortening the lender’s working week.

Business activity continues to rise strongly across most regions, led by London

https://www.markiteconomics.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/71845bf69f4a4be5b171c9c7a4918676

Banks plan 50-YEAR home loans: Bank of England to relax mortgage rules to help first-time buyers in move that could send house prices soaring

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10299287/Banks-plan-50-YEAR-home-loans.html

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LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Britain's economy barely grew in October, before the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, further denting expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates next week for the first time since the pandemic struck.

Gross domestic product edged up by a weaker-than-expected 0.1% in October.

That meant the economy remained 0.5% smaller than it was in February 2020, just before the country went into its first COVID-19 lockdown, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-economy-barely-grew-october-gdp-up-by-01-2021-12-10/

Permanent placements rise at sharper rate in November

UK recruiters signalled a further sharp increase in hiring activity midway through the fourth quarter, according to the latest KPMG and REC, UK Report on Jobs survey, with permanent placement growth quickening since October and temp billings continuing to rise strongly.

https://home.kpmg/uk/en/home/media/press-releases/2021/12/kpmg-and-rec-uk-report-on-jobs.html

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British Airways has resumed service from Heathrow to both Nashville and New Orleans. This brings to 24 BA’s US network from London this week. The only confirmed US route still to return is San Jose, with its first flight set for the first day of the summer season.

Share_Talk ™ (@Share_Talk) tweeted at 9:58 AM on Thu, Dec 09, 2021:
@AlienMetals (#UFO.L) Part of its development of the Elizabeth Hill Silver Project it has commenced work to re-open the historic underground mine in Western Australia
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