Wetherspoons to open first pub in Spain – offering garlic prawns and beer from 6am
Opening in Alicante airport is the chain’s first move into mainland Europe, and will offer outdoor drinking
Households in Great Britain face surprise rise in energy bills from January
Energy price cap for average dual fuel bill will increase to £1,758 a year, from £1,755 in the current quarter
Rachel Reeves sick of people ‘mansplaining’ how to be chancellor
As she prepares to deliver her budget next week, Reeves speaks of pressure of being UK’s first female chancellor
Asos turns to AI stylists to win back shoppers after sales slide 12%
Online fashion retailer says action to cut discounts and deter ‘serial returners’ contributed to fall in sales
Leading law firm cuts London back-office staff as it embraces AI
Clifford Chance makes about 50 roles redundant, and PwC indicates that AI may lead to fewer hirings
UK retail sales drop unexpectedly as shoppers await Black Friday and budget
Supermarkets, clothing stores and online mail order firms suffer sales declines as consumers delay purchases
AI bubble fears return as Wall Street falls back from short-lived rally
Leading US stock markets tumble less than 24 hours after strong results from chipmaker Nvidia sparked gains
‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened
Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction
Reeves urged to ‘grasp the nettle’ with wholesale reset of council tax
Experts say chancellor should go further than rumoured plan to update value of homes in top three bands
Serious Fraud Office arrests two men over suspected £20m crypto fraud
Law enforcement agency raids two sites in West Yorkshire and London as it appeals for information
Industry can’t wait any longer for a fix to its energy crisis. Ministers should get a move on
Make UK’s call for the government to recognise that the energy crisis for industry is happening now is spot-on
‘No contract, no coffee’: what to know about the Starbucks workers’ strike in 65 US cities
More than 2,000 Starbucks employees are on the picket line as politicians like Zohran Mamdani back striking workers
UK is worst-performing market for JD Sports as youth unemployment hits sales
Lack of spare cash among under-25s feeds slide in sales with annual profits to be at lower end of expectations
US economy added more jobs than forecast in September, after shock losses in August – as it happened
US non-farm payrolls rose by 119,000 in September, but new data also shows economy shed jobs in August
Asda to raise £568m in store sell-off as sales continue to fall
Supermarket still losing market share despite effort under Allan Leighton to win over customers with price cuts