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Sarah Breeden predicts ‘adjustment’ due to elevated risk including private credit and highly valued AI stocksBusiness live – latest updatesRecord-high global stock markets do not reflect the risks in...
Exclusive: Owner says private members venue is changing policy after revolt over division of pre-Christmas moneyThe restaurant tycoon Richard Caring has admitted his private members club Annabel’s mad...
Industry sceptical as Nigel Farage’s party goes on charm offensive to help win over former Labour heartlandsReform UK has asked steel bosses to draw up an “alternative steel strategy” to rival recent...
MPs call for investigation into Essar Energy, owner of Stanlow refinery, which shifted loans from ‘Putin’s piggy bank’ VTB to MauritiusDays after the first wave of Russian tanks surged over the border...
Some people are put off by myriad investment options. Here is a guide to the key decisions to help you choose ‘Savvy Squirrel’ ad campaign looks to push Britons towards investingThe UK government is k...
Consumer confidence hit its lowest level since October 2023 this month, with surveys showing the cost pressures companies are facingConfidence in the UK economy has fallen sharply amid the mounting ec...
More than 50% of voters at first AGM under new leadership oppose plans to scrap climate reportingBP’s board has suffered a triple climate rebellion in its first shareholder meeting since appointing ne...
Figure hits three-year low but Iran war expected to blow hole in Reeves’s fiscal ‘headroom’The UK government budget came in below its annual borrowing target by £700m, official figures show – but the...
Trade body warns that changes are likely to drive up costs and push pupils to find somewhere to buy junk food Business live – latest updatesA government push to get schoolchildren eating more lentils,...
Simon Roberts says support for bills on back of Iran war should include ‘food growing, manufacturing and retailing’The boss of Sainsbury’s has called on the government to help ease the rising cost of...
Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ‘negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the moneyThe Australian company that ran the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge has admitted it overcharged the Bri...
Industry groups dismayed at hints policy will not be in king’s speech, as touts make huge sums from BBC Radio 1 eventKeir Starmer has been urged to honour his pledge to ban ticket touting, amid fears...
Exclusive: Documents released to campaign group 38 Degrees reveal UK officials briefed on possibility of altering food standardsBritish officials were briefed on the possibility of allowing chemical-w...
The campaign is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymiedNils Pratley: the ‘Savvy Squirrel looks a bit too tame’City firms are pinning their h...
Chemists in England say cost of painkillers like paracetamol and hay fever treatments has jumped since FebruaryThe war in Iran has pushed up the price of widely used medicines in England, including pa...
RMT union drivers continue strike action against London Underground plans for a voluntary four-day weekCommuters in London face another two days of disruption as a second 24-hour tube strike starts fr...
There are now 3,110 billionaires but analysis shows ‘deep structural acceleration’ in wealth creation around worldThe number of billionaires in the world could reach nearly 4,000 by 2031, figures sugg...
Commons committee heard from residents of Yorkshire town with the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in UKOn 15 January, members of the House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) visited...
Economic body found Britain had the biggest increase in ‘tax wedge’ out of 38 member nations last yearTaxes on workers in Britain rose at the fastest rate among the world’s richest economies last year...
Annual March rate shows impact of Iran war, which also pushed up cost of food and air faresUK inflation accelerated to 3.3% in March after the Iran war triggered the biggest jump in fuel prices for mo...