Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

Young people are biggest victims of UK’s fragile jobs market

Firms too scared to take a chance on youngsters when taxes and minimum wages are higher, expert says

UK labour market shows signs of stabilising after job losses

Unemployment rate rises slightly to 4.8% but ONS says falls in payroll numbers and vacancies are levelling off

UK retail sales growth cools amid fears over budget tax rises

Inflation also hitting sales, says industry body, as Barclays says credit card spending fell in September

Blair’s former policy chief Matthew Taylor to lead Fair Work Agency

Author of influential report on the gig economy says new watchdog can make progress on workers’ rights

Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

Vodafone outage: thousands of broadband and mobile users report problems

Company apologises and says network ‘recovering’ after many customers say there were unable to access services

China’s Temu more than doubles EU profits to nearly $120m despite having only eight staff

Online marketplace paid just $18m in corporation tax, leading campaigners to call for government action

Why has US-China trade war restarted and how have markets reacted?

Trump has threatened 100% tariffs after Beijing’s fresh curbs on rare earths, a month before deadline to agree a deal

Global financial system vulnerable to shocks amid recent stock market surge, Bank of England chief warns – as it happened

Wall Street rallies at the open as fears over US-China trade war ease

Markets rebound amid latest US-China tariff spat as traders look to possible ‘Taco trade’

US S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes rise and cryptocurrencies rebound after Trump post on Truth Social

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

The populist playbook: Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr looked at growth and technological progress, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about the role of ‘creative destruction’

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction