Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
Union members have rejected a deal to end the long-running dispute at Southern Rail. Passengers on Southern services have suffered months of delays and cancellations in the dispute over driver-only trains.
One of the bastions of British commerce – Lloyd’s of London – is to set up a new European subsidiary in Brussels to avoid losing business when the UK leaves the EU.
Tesco’s UK arm has agreed to pay just under a quarter of a billion pounds in a deal with the authorities over the accounting scandal that rocked the company in 2014.
The Metropolitan Police said this evening that Masood’s communications on the day of the attack were a main line of their inquiries. He had reportedly connected with the encrypted “WhatsApp” messaging system shortly before launching his assault.
There’s a been an unexpectedly big rise in inflation today, thanks to rising fuel and food prices, February’s rate is 2.3% – that’s up half a per cent on January, and the highest it’s been since September 2013.
It’s the scandal that continues to dog the Royal Bank of Scotland. Many small companies have complained bitterly of their treatment at the hands of the state-owned bank. RBS has always maintained any problems were due to past management mistakes. But Channel 4 News has been speaking to one company who says its problems continued…
Rupert Murdoch’s plan for an eleven billion pound takeover of Sky is being sent to the regulators. The government said it wants advice on whether the deal is in the public interest. It’s the second time Mr Murdoch has tried to take control of Sky – but his last effort foundered after the phone-hacking scandal…
She helped to write the code of conduct ,but then broke it. Now the Bank of England’s Deputy Governor, Charlotte Hogg, has resigned, after she failed to declare that her brother worked for Barclays.
There was mixed news for businesses from the Chancellor, with help for some small firms struggling with higher bills from the reform of business rates, but a sizeable tax hit from a cut in dividend tax reliefs for shareholders and directors and higher national insurance contributions for many self-employed workers.
The Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has said she’s “minded” to order the broadcasting watchdog to investigate the takeover deal between 21st Century Fox and Sky to see if it’s in the public interest.
Now what price a knighthood? Ask Sir Philip Green, and he might say £363 million. That is the amount the former owner of BHS today agreed to pay into the company’s pensions scheme.
Oops, they did it again. Another multi-billion pound loss, for the ninth year in a row. In fact, the Royal Bank of Scotland lost £7 billion last year, more than three times the amount they lost in 2015.
For every one of the past nine years, Ross McEwan or his predecessor has used a bad results day to reassure investors of good times to come. Only those good times have failed yet again to materialise.
The Chancellor has tonight hinted that he is in ‘listening mode’ as Tory backbenchers expressed concerns over planned rises to business rates
Inflation has reached a two-and-a-half year high, as surging oil prices and the fall in the value of the pound after Brexit combined to push prices higher.