Wednesday, 28 October 2026
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Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has revealed details of its business ahead of its plans to sell shares to the public in what will likely be the largest stock market debut in history.
Pensioners on low incomes will be shielded from income tax by Chancellor John Healey in his first Budget on Wednesday.
Until a few years ago many of us may have been blissfully unaware of what a data centre was.
The chancellor's aides are using intelligence-style security measures to guard its secrets: the Budget has been split into "compartments" with very few given access to all of them. There are codenames. The IT has been l…
The prime minister says a new code will end "rip-off parking charges" - but will it work?
When we landed by helicopter at Rosebank, this oil field was at the centre of a political storm - and set to be in the path of a real one.
Scotland editor James Cook finds out what life is like on board a ship in an untapped oil field awaiting its fate.
The risk of Fed over-tightening rises when 5% Treasury yields, a thin savings cushion and a hike-cut-hike Fed all converge at the same time.
Voters are about to decide if the mega-rich among them should hand over billions of dollars to pay for improvements to healthcare.
The Trump administration is lifting some of its 50% tariffs on Canadian goods two weeks before the midterm elections, after a Republican candidate in a key Senate race said she had lobbied for the change.
The UK says it will establish a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to help strengthen its defences against emerging biological threats.
July 21, 2026, 3:50 AM EDT. The U.S. dollar traded near a one-week peak as investors tracked Middle East hostilities affecting energy supply chains and weighing on ceasefire prospects. The greenback was flat against the…
The U.S. September CPI report, set for release on Eastern Time October 14, is critical for the Federal Reserve’s October 27-28 policy meeting. Consensus expects headline inflation to rise to 3.7% year-over-year due to s…
A civil servant accused of fraudulently juggling multiple government jobs says he was ''surprised'' to have been charged with fraud.
Major U.S. stock indexes closed the week mixed as concerns about artificial intelligence (AI)-related spending and financing weighed on large-cap technology shares, while small-cap and value-oriented stocks outperformed…
Households will need to earn less than £110,000 to qualify for the government's new loan scheme for first-time buyers, or £140,000 for homes bought in London.
As of September 2026, major bank gold price forecasts for year-end 2026 have converged lower. J.P. Morgan is at $4,500. Wells Fargo is at $4,900-$5,100. Goldman Sachs is at $4,900, and UBS is at $5,500. Bank of America’…
According to Reuters, the stronger activity came even as inflation in the eurozone accelerated more than expected to 3.8% in September from 3.2% in August, driven largely by soaring energy costs. The increase has height…
Growth across the euro zone's private sector slowed to its weakest pace in four months in October, driven by an energy-driven rise in costs and a renewed contraction in France amid political and financial pressures, …
Ken Griffin then wandered into an already open wound and poured in a little salt by saying AI is “almost certainly” in a bubble. Coming from someone sitting near the centre of the modern capital-markets money machine, t…
Ninety-six-year-old Lillian Droniak, known as Grandma Droniak to her social media followers, went viral in June after claiming her retirement home had threatened to evict her for throwing parties.
The survey gives the BoJ a mixed but broadly workable backdrop: steady growth and persistent cost pressure support further policy normalisation, while weaker hiring and softer demand argue for a gradual pace. For the ye…
The body in charge of Britain's electricity network has given assurances that the lights will stay on this winter after concerns were raised by some of its engineers.
Beauty giant L'Oreal says the rise of weight loss drugs has affected beauty and skin care sales, as it designs products to specifically target some side effects of rapid weight loss.