Geopolitical tensions and Covid crisis: Noel Quinn’s five years at HSBC’s helm CEO is making a surprise exit after successfully slimming down the global bank and winning over its tough chair
UK cottage cheese sales boom as social media craze drives demand Influencers’ inventive recipes for high-protein dairy product have boosted trade by 40% for one producer
Mining industry braces for multi-billion pound Anglo American bidding war Glencore understood to be considering takeover offer while BHP could move again after initial rejection
Interest rate cut bets rise as US job creation slows; FTSE 100 at record high – as it happened Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
US adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady April’s figure was lower than forecast and unemployment rate ticked up over the month but still market remains strong
Train strikes and traffic jams: UK travellers face delays in coming days Planned works by Network Rail will force more people on to the roads to join bank holiday getaway, with rail strikes to follow the week after
Northumbrian Water told to publish raw sewage discharge data it tried to hide Appeal tribunal orders firm to share details on hundreds of thousands of tonnes of outflows into North Sea
‘Push through the feelings of: I’m worthless, this sucks’: can anyone learn to be a top songwriter? Songwriting courses are exploding in popularity, with everyone from Mark Ronson to Alicia Keys as teachers. On a retreat in north Wales, our folk music critic tries to write her first song
Apple reports slumping iPhone sales as global demand weakens iPhone sales fell 10% compared with the same time period last year, but the company still beat Wall Street’s expectations
Second Boeing whistleblower dies after short illness Joshua Dean, 45, former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, alleged ‘gross misconduct by quality management’
Sony and Apollo reportedly make $26bn offer for Paramount Shares in media giant, whose chief executive Bob Bakish was this week ousted amid reports of clash with Shari Redstone, spike 12%
Angry fans seek compensation from Co-op Live after third opening show axed A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie gig cancelled last minute after air conditioning part falls from gantry during soundcheck
Gazprom slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit £5.5bn loss in 2023 comes after gas sales more than halved following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Post Office investigators saw Horizon victims as ‘enemies’, inquiry told Senior company lawyer agrees that 2013 draft report shows ‘needless adversarialism’ by Post Office team
Goldman Sachs to scrap cap on bonuses for hundreds of UK staff Changes will allow the investment bank’s star performers to earn up to 25 times their annual salary