With the Government's changes to stamp duty having just come into effect, there will have been a glut of first time buyers frantically pushing for their house purchases to go through in time.

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan said on Monday it will reduce purchases of super-long bonds for the first time since embarking ... the bond market. The cut to longer-dated bond ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday. The ...

Kennedy Jr. said he would significantly cut the size of the department he leads ... Kennedy on Thursday said the agency would ax 10,000 full-time employees spread across agencies tasked with ...

The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Thursday that about 10,000 full-time employees will soon lose their jobs ... You can't just willy nilly [cut] these thousands and thousands of ...

Norway’s central bank delayed a long-communicated cut in borrowing costs until later this year as officials responded to a flare-up in inflation. Norges Bank held the deposit rate at 4.5% ...

FirstEnergy will cut less than 3% of its workforce and reassign 200 employees as part of an effort to boost efficiency and control costs. The Akron, Ohio-based utility company said the ...

People employed by AG Barr at its Strathmore bottled water site in Forfar could be forgiven for not rejoicing in the latest bumper profits reported by the firm. The Irn-Bru maker reported pre-tax ...