Nasdaq falls nearly 3% on Friday and ends October lower as investors question AI spending
The US sell-off came days before the Bank of England's 5 November decision. The Independent reports that traders expect the first UK rate rise since 2023.
The US sell-off came days before the Bank of England's 5 November decision. The Independent reports that traders expect the first UK rate rise since 2023.
Frankfurt debated a rise before holding at 2.5%, and two US policymakers voted for one.
The survey of 3,503 businesses finds adoption rising fast, though only 24% of those using AI reported lower operating costs so far.
The 2GW link is meant to cut the money paid to switch generators off. Ofgem has yet to settle what National Grid can spend on it.
New UKHSA figures show the rise of recent years has stopped. A new national action plan for the disease is still being written.
HMRC's provisional estimate is the lowest September reading since 2024 on a seasonally adjusted basis. The October figure is due on 27 November.
Applications run until January 2027, with the group of companies starting a year of support in February.
A new Offset Authority will agree and monitor benefits that could match the value of a contract, with the rules applied case by case.
Refining margins and gas trading drove the result. The company will set out its next plans in a strategy update on 15 December.
Longer reads on how a system works, and where it is heading next.
From February 2030 the UK's oldest inflation measure will be calculated using the methods behind CPIH. The change is technical, but it will alter payments on pensions, gilts and student loans for years.
The Retail Prices Index has measured the cost of living in the UK since 1947. It is no longer the government's preferred measure of inflation, yet it is still written into contracts, pension rules and government bonds worth hundreds of billions of pounds. In 2030 the…
A Spending Review decides how much each department can spend on day-to-day services and on investment, often for three years or more. Here is how the money is divided and what it leaves out.
A Budget is mostly about tax. The question of how much each government department gets to spend is settled in a different process, the Spending Review. Its decisions can run for several years, which means the funding for schools, hospitals, courts and roads in a given…
The 2GW link is meant to cut the money paid to switch generators off. Ofgem has yet to settle what National Grid can spend on it.
The survey of 3,503 businesses finds adoption rising fast, though only 24% of those using AI reported lower operating costs so far.
Customer balances passed £1 trillion after the Evelyn Partners deal, and the bank now expects risk-weighted assets of about £210bn at the start of 2027.
The US sell-off came days before the Bank of England's 5 November decision. The Independent reports that traders expect the first UK rate rise since 2023.
Decisions on straightforward cases now sit with planning officers. Ministers aim to halve routine householder processing from eight weeks to four.
An evaluation of the rise to £196 a week found few claimants linked changes in their work to it, and that nearly half of those who knew of a limit picked the old figure.
Worry about affording food held steady over the summer, but concern about shortages climbed through the quarter.
A trial in 11 schools found healthier menus, while schools reported higher costs and some needed more staff time. The proposals were loosened in places as a result.
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