Before we get onto the budget and what Rachel Reeves might do to fiddle her fiscal rules and give herself a little more room to spend, I want you to ponder...
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The UK needs a strategy to meet growing demand for data centres or risk losing its advantage in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI), one of the...
The boss of the UK motor industry’s lobby group has blamed “criminal activity” for UK-made luxury cars finding their way into sanction-hit...
The government has pledged nearly £22bn to fund projects that capture greenhouse gases from polluting plants and store them underground, as it races to reach...
The UK car industry has warned its efforts to support the transition to electric vehicles cannot be sustained indefinitely as it faces fines for missing...
Financial markets are now pricing in a shock interest rate cut for the UK at the next Bank of England meeting following remarks by its governor. There was a...
Tesco says a focus on value amid the continuing squeeze on shoppers’ budgets has paid off through a rise in half-year profits. The UK’s biggest...
Banks could be given extra time to investigate suspicious payments under an effort to curb fraud. The Treasury said proposed new laws would enable banks to...
Israel is fighting on at least four fronts, threatening a war across the oil-rich Middle East, but there is no great sense of fear yet as far as financial...
A prolonged strike by US port workers risks a new wave of freight-led inflation, according to experts. The walkout, at each of the 36 major ports along the US...
Saga, the London-listed financial services and travel provider for over-50s consumers, is in detailed talks with one of Europe’s biggest insurers about a...
The Post Office was a “mess” run by executives and government appointees who “dragged their feet” in efforts to compensate and...
Mulberry, the struggling UK luxury brand, has rejected a proposed takeover bid by Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group. Frasers, which is majority owned by the...
Bosses at eBay have scrapped fees for private sellers across most categories. The online marketplace, which had already removed such fees for fashion earlier...
A lawyer representing people affected by a “second Post Office IT scandal” has said they “must not” have “a long, hard battle...
An arm of BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is closing in on a takeover of a major contractor to Thames Water even as the utility teeters on...
