Pandemic

There can be few businesses with a more wholesome origin story than Meghan’s lifestyle brand, As Ever. During the pandemic, the former actress started making jam. After a gift basket including the jam reached Netflix boss Bela Bajaria, Meghan was asked: ‘Is there a show here?’ Speaking at the Time100…

A structural shift in memory supply driven by AI infrastructure demand is pushing device costs sharply higher. Here's what CIOs need to know right now – and what they need to do. Datacom Enterprise IT leaders building 2026 budgets face a hardware procurement challenge unlike anything since the pandemic-era chip…

Photo: AFP / William West The cost of running a farm in New Zealand is more than a quarter higher than it was before the Covid pandemic. ANZ's latest Agri Insights report, which analysed financial performance across more than 4000 dairy, red meat, kiwifruit, arable and pipfruit customers over five…

Finance of America (FOA) has expanded access to its HomeSafe Second product into Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, giving senior homeowners more options for tapping record levels of home equity without giving up their low post-pandemic mortgage rates, the company announced Tuesday. Reintroduced in 2023 as what the company called the…

James Ross/EPA Published: March 12, 2026 4.54pm CET Six years ago, as countries around the world went into COVID lockdowns, the air got cleaner. Factories slowed down, roads emptied and aeroplanes were grounded. As people stayed home, the world burned fewer fossil fuels and so carbon dioxide emissions dropped –…

080aqbwmuihr9)r0hcshum]e_media_dl_1.png Bloomberg Article content (Bloomberg) — The US-Israeli war on Iran is rekindling inflation concerns across financial markets, sapping the outlook for global bonds that had just posted their best start to a year since the pandemic.  THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest…

After a solid post-pandemic rebound, the UK hotel market entered a phase of normalisation. Demand broadly held up, but ADR momentum softened while cost inflation continued to weigh on profitability. The year was therefore less about top-line growth and more about operational precision...Read More

The biggest disruption to global air transport since the Covid pandemic continued Sunday, with thousands of flights affected and busy Middle Eastern hubs including Dubai and Doha shuttered as Iran lashed out after US-Israeli strikes. Israel and Iran traded new attacks Sunday, after Tehran hit both the Dubai International Airport…

He was hailed the hero of Hollywood when he helped to save the movie industry during the Covid pandemic. Now Tom Cruise seems to have come to the rescue of Tinseltown once again. Following a bitter two-month battle, streamer Netflix this week walked away from a blockbuster bidding war for…

Order books are at their weakest since the Covid pandemic, the latest data from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has revealed. In its Workload Trends Survey for Q4 2025, CECA found that order books rose for only 3 per cent of firms in the final three months of last…