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UK households are being encouraged to take an energy meter reading next week before the Ofgem price cap increases. The Ofgem price cap is set to rise from £1,717 a year to £1,738 from January 1. Your bill may vary depending on your energy usage – this figure is for …

Generac CEO Aaron Jagdfeld details how artificial intelligence has changed energy consumption on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ OpenAI is working to fix an issue that caused major outages in its applications, including ChatGPT. A statement from the artificial intelligence (AI) company, posted on the social media platform X just after 4 …

Ahead of Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget, there was a flurry of speculation about potential changes to taxes, benefits, and other financial matters. Despite experts advising caution against premature actions before official announcements, some individuals took what they thought were precautionary steps. Fearing a significant reduction in the tax-free lump sum …

Fox News senior correspondent Jonathan Serrie speaks to medical and agricultural experts about lactose and dairy cattle testing for bird flu. The death of an Oregon house cat, who became ill after eating raw pet food contaminated with bird flu, recently prompted a nationwide recall. The Oregon Department of Agriculture …

Savers are being invited to participate in a new 2025 challenge by Monzo, the innovative UK bank with over 11 million customers, which will help them tuck away a neat £700 cash pot by year-end. The challenge operates on a simple concept: it begins by saving 1p on day one …

CAZ Investments Chief Investment Officer Christopher Zook analyzes the number of merger and acquisition deals that took place under Biden versus Trump.  The Biden-Harris administration took an aggressive stance in scrutinizing proposed mergers and acquisitions in recent years, which resulted in several deals being blocked or paused due to regulatory action. …

HM Revenue and Customs have released an urgent briefing suggesting people could be missing a £2,200 windfall this festive season. It has been disclosed that last year, around 430,000 individuals aged between 18-21 were unaware of their unclaimed Child Trust Fund accounts, averaging roughly £2,000 in value. A fresh call …

 Zelman & Associates executive vice president Ivy Zelman discusses the hurdles of home affordability on ‘Barron’s Roundtable.’ Mortgage rates spiked this week to the highest level in five months, ending the year slightly higher than where they started. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed that the …

Four in 10, or 41 percent, of New Year’s resolution makers were hoping to buy a new home in the closing days of 2024, a study shows. The homebuilder Barratt Redrow also found that a quarter of the 2,216 Brits it surveyed said getting on the property ladder was an …

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., discusses DOGE’s influence on Congress and Elon Musk’s role in Trump’s White House on ‘Varney & Co.’ Billionaire businessman and recently appointed government cost-cutter Elon Musk called for increased immigration of high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. in several social media posts combating immigration restrictionists.  In …