VW’s top UK executive, Paul Wallis, has said that of the 1.2 million cars in the UK affected by the diesel emissions scandal, 470,000 have been fixed. “At the current rate, we are applying these measures to 20,000 cars a week,” he told MPs on the Transport Committee.

In his YouTube videos, PewDiePie is boisterous and goofy, playing video games and swearing enough to make a sailor nod in approval. But in person, 27-year-old Felix Kjellberg is much more introverted, according to a colleague who worked closely with him on “Scare PewDiePie,” his recently canceled show on YouTube’s “Red” premium video service.

By Christopher Versace via Iris.xyz With little in the way of economic data last week amid the continued earnings announcements maelstrom, the driver of the market’s climb was more political than fundamental. On Thursday, Feb. 9, President Donald Trump said that in the coming weeks he would announce something “phenomenal” in terms of tax, although he offered no further details.

The British government has no intention of revoking its withdrawal from the European Union once the formal exit process has been triggered, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Monday. May plans to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, beginning up to two years of divorce talks.

Oil pricing agency S&P Global Platts said on Monday it was making the first major overhaul of its Brent oil assessment in a decade to address falling supply underpinning the benchmark that prices most of the world’s oil. A decline in supply from North Sea fields has led to concerns that physical volumes could become too thin and hence at times could be accumulated in the hands of just a few players, making the benchmark vulnerable to manipulation.

Gold held steady on Monday as traders awaited further clues on the pace of U.S. interest rate rises from a Federal Reserve officials due to speak this week. The precious metal is highly sensitive to rising U.S. rates, which increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion while boosting the dollar, in which it is priced.

By Louis Diamond via Iris.xyz Announcements of mergers and acquisitions continue to dominate the headlines as private equity firms, banks, consolidators, regional RIAs and the like capitalize on the significant headwinds facing standalone independent firms and RIAs.

Today marks one month since President Trump took office. Already we have seen controversial appointees, resignations, outrage over Russia, and backlash from Trump’s executive orders.

A Google spokesperson told Business Insider: “We’ve decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers.” According to YouTube , more than half of its video views come from mobile users, where a 30-second ad can negatively affect consumers with a smaller data plan.

Prime Minister Theresa May faces the delicate balance of maintaining Britain’s FDI credentials while avoiding a fire-sale of cheap U.K. companies. Theresa May is no Lady Bracknell, but the U.K. Prime Minister is nonetheless likely to be thinking about Oscar Wilde’s most-quoted character this week as she fends off takeover approaches from aboard while simultaneously insisting that Britain is an economy with global ambitions that is ‘open for business’.

We all know that there are two main ways to make money in business: by selling yourself or selling something you create . I work daily on growing the greater Washington region’s innovation community, and I am constantly reminded of the fundamentally important distinction between these two business approaches.

The government said the total deficit of all DB schemes in January 2017 was A 197bn, down from A 459bn in August 2016. “Our modelling suggests that these deficits are likely to shrink for the majority of schemes, if employers continue to pay into schemes at current/promised levels,” the paper declares.

U.S. households held 1.9 percent more auto debt in the final three months of 2016 than in the previous quarter, as automakers closed out a record year with 17.55 million cars and light trucks sold. Auto loans now make up 9.2 percent of Americans’ debt loads, the highest share in New York Fed data going back to 2003.

PSA Group Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares will meet with government leaders in the U.K. and France this week to discuss the potential purchase of General Motors Co.’ s Opel and Vauxhall brands.

PSA Group Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares will meet with government leaders in the U.K. and France this week to discuss the potential purchase of General Motors Co.’ s Opel and Vauxhall brands.