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NatWest says HQ will shift to London if Scotland gets independence NatWest was acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland in 2000, which has had its headquarters in Edinburgh for almost 300 years. RBS' HQ has been in Edinburgh for 294 years NatWest Group PLC (LON:NWG) said today that the bank would shift its HQ to London in the event Scotland votes for independence from the UK. Speaking to reporters after first-quarter results chief executive Alison Rose said that if Scotland did split away “Our balance sheet would be too big for an independent Scottish economy. And so we would move our...

The quarterly results from the ecommerce titan will be the first since its founder Jeff Bezos stepped back from the role of CEO

A bite of Apple to mark latest Big Tech earnings, Facebook opens its account books The iPhone maker and the social networking giant are due to report quarterly numbers after Wednesday's close on Wall Street The next round of earnings from Big Tech will kick off after Wall Street’s close on Wednesday as both Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) deliver their quarterly results. Given Apple already announced a new suite of products on Tuesday, including new ranges of its iMac desktop computers and iPad tablets, investors may be looking for any details on the rollout of these ne...

What’s the best way to play the copper market, now that prices have surged to new ten-year highs? Copper is often said to be the bellwether of the global economy It was interesting to see in a recent report from Goldman Sachs the comment, presented almost as an aside, that the major copper companies it was analysing had collectively outperformed the copper price by 34% over the past 12 months, in spite of the fact that copper itself had been on a tear. The comment lies at the basis of a truism well-known to investors in the mining sector: mining companies in any given commodity always outpe...

The financials showed BP is back on track following last year's volatility. BP PLC (LON:BP. shares moved higher in Tuesday’s early deals as its first quarter update left investors suitably impressed. In London, the shares gained 4.12p or 1.39% to change hands at 300.6p. The financial results and an operations update characterised by the company as “performing while transforming” showed a US$4.6bn profit which is a return to form in terms of year-on-year comparisons. However, it is marked against the worst phase of the oil price slump in the midst of 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandem...