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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Tuesday 15th February 2022
5. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken the unprecedented step of invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on anti-vaccine mandate protests.
Mr Trudeau said the scope of the measures would be "time-limited", "reasonable and proportionate" and suggested banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.
4. Criminals are deploying "psychological tactics" to con people out of cash amid a rise in scams, Barclays bank says.
The tricks include creating illusions of product scarcity or pretending to be an authority to "socially engineer" victims, the bank's chief behavioural scientist Dr Pete Brooks warned.
3. Fuel prices have hit a new record high at the pump across the UK, tightening the squeeze on UK consumers, the motoring organisation the AA has said.
Over the weekend petrol reached 148.02p a litre, while diesel hit a new record high of 151.57p a litre last Thursday.
2. Home developers who refuse to pay the costs of removing unsafe cladding could have planning permission and projects blocked under government plans.
New powers would also allow cladding companies to be sued and subject to fines for defective products.
1. UK shares fell on yesterday, hit by the souring risk sentiment across global equities following U.S. warnings that Russia could invade Ukraine at any time.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index sank 1.7% and recorded its worst session in three-weeks, with financial stocks leading declines.