Here are the business stories making the headlines across Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK this morning.
Weather warning lifted as third storm to hit Scotland eases off
A weather warning put in place as a third storm in a matter of days hit Scotland has now been lifted.
Energy provider SSEN said 108,000 customers had been reconnected with just 2,000 still without power in the aftermath of Storm Boelo and several days of high winds and heavy rain.
A yellow wind warning, external, covering most of the country as well as parts of northern England and Northern Ireland, came into effect at 03:00 but was lifted at 18:00.
Read the BBC article here.
Confirmed: Aberdeen Christmas parade will ‘go down revamped Union Street’ as roadworks to be finished in just over a fortnight
The dug up stretch of Union Street will be completed in just over two weeks, the council’s masterplan boss has confirmed.
Sandy Beattie, the official leading the transformation of the city centre, today confirmed the project will be completed by mid November.
Addressing a room packed with business owners, the masterplan manager gave an update on how construction is progressing – and what the council’s next steps will be.
Read more in The Press and Journal.
SNP urged to scrap compulsory redundancy ban over ‘ghost workers’
SNP ministers must scrap their policy against compulsory redundancies after revelations about 800 “ghost workers” in Scotland’s public sector, it has been demanded.
Craig Hoy, the Scottish Conservative MSP, challenged Jenny Gilruth, the deputy first minister, on the issue during an exchange in Holyrood.
Hoy cited figures from a Sunday Times investigation showing hundreds of staff are employed at an annual cost of about £27m a year, even though their jobs no longer exist.
Read more in The Times.
Aberdeen hospitality boss on making Flint ‘the best market in Scotland’ by next summer
Aberdeen’s hospitality kingpin Allan Henderson has vowed to make Flint the “best market in Scotland” as work on the new food court gathers pace.
The McGinty’s Group boss was put in charge of the £50million project three years ago amid hopes the new development will “transform” the city centre and boost footfall.
The company is the city’s largest independent hospitality operator and is behind well-known institutions such as The Grill, the Silver Darling, No 10 and the Ferryhill Hotel.
Read the P&J story here.
Race tightens, Israel news networks say
An update to election polls now shows a slightly tighter race, but Binyamin Netanyahu’s bloc is still ahead.
The prime minister’s bloc is now expected to take 55 seats, compared to Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc on 49 seats, according to Israeli news networks Kan News, Channel 12 and Channel 13.
Follow The Times' live updates on the Israeli election results here.
New bell opens trading as London Stock Exchange celebrates Big Bang
The London Stock Exchange has rung the changes by bringing back a bell to mark the start of trading every day, 40 years after it ended the tradition with the Big Bang.
The LSE unveiled a new bronze bell on Tuesday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Big Bang in 1986, when a wave of deregulation started a boom in the City of London. It included electronic markets replacing open-outcry trading.
Michael Findlay, chairman of the London Stock Exchange, rang the new bell at the market opening to the applause of guests gathered in the exchange’s lobby.
Read the full story on The Times' website.