‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds
Growing use of AI tech comes at expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay, report warns
Kevin Warsh: Trump’s ideal choice to push Fed to cut interest rates
Former Wall Street banker faces questions at confirmation hearing – but his biggest backer is also his biggest liability
Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?
From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their films
UK jobs market was in a fragile state – even before Iran war threatened recovery
Despite surprise fall in unemployment, weak wage growth and inflation pressures put the squeeze on workers
Our host just vanished, but Booking.com still said ‘no’ to a refund
I was forced to lose all the £609 I had paid, although Booking.com couldn’t contact our host, either
Tequila overtakes gin as the UK’s favourite warm-weather spirit
Publicans say celebrity-backed brands have helped the take-up of a ‘slightly lighter alternative’ to the classic G&T
Electricity generators threatened with higher windfall taxes in bid to ensure stable prices
Move marks UK government’s most radical attempt to weaken impact of soaring wholesale gas prices on electricity costs
The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege
The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California’s attorney general
Oil prices rise and markets fall after US seizure of ship hits Iran peace deal hopes
FTSE 100 slides and UK gas prices up amid fears strait of Hormuz will be closed for extended period
Lord Skidelsky obituary
Economic historian and politician who was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes
Polymarket in fundraising talks that could value the prediction platform at $15bn
Bets placed on Middle East conflict has led to US firm experiencing big increase in volume
John Oliver on prediction markets: ‘Betting on war is really dark’
The Last Week Tonight host dug into the rapidly expanding, poorly regulated free-for-all of ‘prediction markets’ like Kalshi and Polymarket
European stock markets fall and oil and gas prices jump as strait of Hormuz ‘chaos’ worries investors – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs
Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs