US supreme court rules in favor of former Monsanto company in pesticide case
Justices rule that federal law blocks state cases over label warnings on Roundup by people alleging it caused illness
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Make pension tax relief only available to savers prepared to invest in UK, Andy Haldane says
Pension tax relief worth more than £50bn should only be offered to savers who are prepared to invest in Britain, according to Andy Haldane, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce.
Read more →Ryanair adopts ‘free of charge’ family seating policy after watchdog investigation
Chief executive claims CMA has forced airline to adopt ‘less transparent and less consumer-friendly’ approach
Read more →CACEIS UK censured and to pay £31.7m to WealthTek clients for weak financial crime controls
CACEIS UK, an asset servicing bank, has been censured by the FCA and will make a £31.7m voluntary payment to WealthTek clients for failing to act on information that left clients exposed to the risk of financial crime.
Read more →Piero Cipollone: Central bank money for the digital era
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Read more →Tell us: are you trying to buy or sell a flat in the UK?
We’d like to hear from people in the UK about their experiences of trying to buy or sell a flat in recent months. Have there been any issues?
Read more →Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds
LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution
Read more →The great tinification: how Britain fell in love with canned cocktails
Forty years since Marks & Spencer started selling cans of gin and tonic, every supermarket and corner shop is full of ready-mixed mojitos, margaritas and negronis. Why are these so acceptable, given the moral panic over…
Read more →UK to halve tariff-free steel imports to counter glut of cheap Chinese metal
The UK government will halve the amount of tariff-free steel imports allowed in an attempt to counter a global oversupply of cheap Chinese metal and boost its beleaguered local industry.
Read more →Shaping the future of the credit market – the road ahead
Speech by Alison Walters, director of consumer finance at the Credit Week: Powering the Future of Finance event.
Read more →Has Cornwall’s housing crisis created a van life generation?
Cornwall's housing crisis is forcing young people to live in vans. As second homes and short-term holiday lets drive up house prices, a growing number are turning to van life to stay in the place they love. The Guardian…
Read more →Elizabeth Warren says ‘frenzy’ of mergers under Trump could be reversed
Senator warns of ‘tsunami of anger’ against big companies and suggests future administrations may undo key deals
Read more →The Retail Payments Infrastructure Board launches consultation on the next generation UK payments infrastructure
Today marks a major milestone in the modernisation of the UK's payments landscape, with the Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB) launching a consultation on the future design of the UK's next-generation retail pa…
Read more →EasyJet opens talks with Castlelake after rejecting £4.9bn takeover offer
British carrier says it hopes to receive ‘more attractive proposal that better reflects’ its value
Read more →ECB to integrate non-financial credit claim portfolios into general collateral framework, phasing out temporary measures
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided today on the eligibility criteria and risk control framework to permanently integrate portfolios of non-financial corporate (NFC) credit claims into i…
Read more →Why stronger Buy Now Pay Later protections are the right step for consumers
BNPL can help people to manage their cash flow. It can allow them to spread the cost of purchases and smooth their finances.
Read more →Isabel Schnabel: Interview with Die Zeit
There is now a ceasefire in the Middle East, and oil prices have fallen. What does this mean for the economy in Europe, and in Germany in particular?
Read more →Oil price falls to lowest level since before the US-Iran war; UK firms hope Burnham will ease burden – business live
Asia-Pacific stock markets have jumped today, on relief that the oil price has fallen to its pre-Iran war levels .
Read more →’It can flip quickly from being idyllic’: the reality of life for young van dwellers priced out of Cornwall’s housing market
With tourists buying up property and landlords opting for lucrative Airbnb rentals, young Cornish people are turning to old campervans to provide a roof over their heads
Read more →It’s not the bond markets Andy Burnham should be afraid of. It’s his own MPs | Aditya Chakrabortty
To stay popular with the public – and his backbenchers – he’ll need to make big changes fast. That means changing the way the government borrows
Read more →What is China’s SpaceSail, and could it rival Elon Musk’s Starlink?
The company has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit but has state backing and is already reportedly negotiating with dozens of countries
Read more →One in four graduates will lose financially from going to university, IFS estimates
Degrees still mostly boost lifetime pay, thinktank says, but those completing creative qualifications may end up worse off
Read more →Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops
Falling shares push tech mogul back down to billionaire ranks after SpaceX IPO made him world’s first trillionaire
Read more →Federal Reserve Board's annual bank stress test confirms that large banks are well positioned to weather a severe recession and able to continue to lend to households and businesses
The results of the Federal Reserve Board's annual bank stress test confirmed that large banks are well positioned to weather a severe recession and able to continue to lend to households and businesses. Despite absorbin…
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