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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Thursday 5th August 2021
5. Shares in the trading platform Robinhood have surged, amid speculation the firm could be seeing the same frenzied trading that surrounded the video game retailer Gamestop.
The stock climbed as much as 82% on Wednesday, with trading paused several times due to wild price swings.
4. Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has rejected suggestions that the UK housing market is in a bubble after it announced bumper half-year profits.
Chief executive Pete Redfern said that market conditions were completely different from the time of the last house price crash in 2007.
3. Vanguard, one of the world's top investment firms, is to pay its US workers $1,000 if they get vaccinated.
Staff must prove they have been jabbed by October and will still qualify if they were inoculated before the company made its offer.
2. Pret, McColls and Welcome Break are among almost 200 firms "named and shamed" by the government for not paying workers the minimum wage.
In total, 191 companies investigated between 2011 and 2018 failed to pay £2.1m to more than 34,000 workers and were made to pay back the money as well as being fined £3.2m.
1. Fully-vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday.
Under widespread changes to the traffic light system for travel, France is being moved from amber-plus to amber whilst Germany, Austria and Norway are among seven nations added to the green list.