Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
- Latest: Wall Street hits new highs on ‘Goldilocks’ jobs report
- US economy added 850,000 new jobs in June
- Strong gains in leisure and hospitality
- Average hourly earnings up 0.3%
- But unemployment rate rose to 5.9%
Earlier:
- Introduction: US jobs report in focus
- Opec+ ministers to discuss lifting supply
- ECB’s Lagarde: recovery is still fragile
- Post-Brexit talks on City access to EU have stalled, Sunak reveals
- Richard Branson aims to beat Jeff Bezos into space by nine days
Football fans are expected to order well over a million takeaways on Saturday night as England’s Euro 2020 quarter-final match with Ukraine provides an excuse for a big evening in or out.
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UK supermarket chain Asda will allow its 4,000 head office staff to choose where they work when lockdown measures are lifted, with options to remain at home, return to the office, or opt for an alternative location such as one of the retailer’s stores or depots.
The supermarket’s Leeds- and Leicester-based employees will permanently switch to the new hybrid model – which the retailer is calling “work where it works” – and staff will not be required to attend a specific location for a set number of days per week….
Related: Asda to let head office staff choose where they work
