Bloomberg UK job cuts jumped to the highest on record in the three months through October, raising more questions over Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s refusal to extend job support programs until hours before they expired. Redundancies increased by a record 217,000 in the period, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday. The number of people on payrolls was ...

Bloomberg Services from Alphabet Inc.’s Google experienced widespread outages around the world, temporarily preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products. Errors ranged from a notice that “something went wrong” on YouTube, to “there was an error. Please try again later,” when attempting to log into the company’s mail product in New York. Google tools were failing to load ...

Bloomberg New York is headed towards a second full shutdown if Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations continue at their current pace, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. “If we do not change the trajectory, we could very well be headed to shut down” all non-essential businesses, Cuomo said at a virus briefing. The state reported 5,712 hospitalisations, an increase of more than 1,000 ...