Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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The country’s licensing laws mean the supermarket has opened a pub so it can sell alcohol, while campaigners are fighting to help other venues open and get people dancing
The government borrowed more than expected in August, as persistently higher inflation pushed up overall spending.
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Essentially, we experienced an initial wave of energy price increases in March and April this year, and then some optimism after the United States and Iran signed the Memorandum of Understanding on 17 June to bring the …
Markets spent Thursday digesting the fallout from Wednesday's Federal Reserve rate hike, with Goldman Sachs among the first to revise its outlook, moving up its call for the next increase to the October 27 to 28 meeting…
Trump’s announcement on Russia ally comes as he steps up his trade war with Canada, a long-term US ally and top supplier of potash
Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California
Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI when he makes his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing Andy Burnham of relyi…
The smoke rising from the Kapotnya oil refinery to the south-east of Moscow marks one of Ukraine’s biggest air raids on the Russian capital since the start of the war, and the latest salvo in an energy crisis that threa…
St. Louis Federal Reserve (Fed) President Alberto Musalem said interest rates likely need to rise further to tame inflation that is both demand- and supply-driven. He warned that without more policy restraint, inflation…
The Bank of England has secured a new long-term premises in Leeds, marking a major milestone in its commitment to build its presence in the region.
Nats says fault at Prestwick has been ‘fixed’ after airports in Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland are hit
Fears of a steep rise in mortgage payments and increasing job insecurity have sent UK consumer confidence tumbling to a three-month low, according to a leading survey.
Google has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed users’ location data, following claims that the tech giant had manipulated users into agreeing to be constantly tracked on their mobile phones.
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The Eurosystem today launched Pontes, a solution that enables wholesale transactions in tokenised assets to be settled in central bank money. Pontes is the first initiative under the Eurosystem’s strategic programme to …
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched preparatory work to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenised securities. This will enable the ECB to gain practical experience as an investor and build institutio…
The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few years, rejecting such assertions as overblown “doomsday narratives”.
Exclusive: Government warned ‘skills revolution’ at risk amid slow start to project with target of 30,000 starts by end of parliament
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing
Unions, thinktanks, environmental groups and charities have come together to call on ministers to boost the financial firepower of the national wealth fund to empower it to invest more in Britain and rebalance the count…
As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump . He’s called the perc…
Meta has launched a fresh legal challenge against Britain’s media regulator in the latest of a slew of actions by social media companies who are accused of using the courts to slow down implementation of the Online Safe…
The Labour Party chair has said Sir Jim Ratcliffe loses "the moral high ground" by making statements about the UK while living in tax exile.