
The Independent - 3 hours 29 min ago
The report forecasts $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years...

The Guardian - 5 hours 38 min ago
Plan to improve gas networks and rewire electricity systems across Great Britain likely to add 30 to average annual bill Energy companies have been given the green light to spend 28bn on Great Britain's gas and electricity grids, raising fears of higher household bills. The energy watchdog, Ofgem , approved more than 17.8bn of spending plans to upgrade gas transmission and distribution networks in the five years from 2026. Continue reading...

The Guardian - 9 hours 4 min ago
Terry Ball renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi has vowed to spend his remaining years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A tax-dodging snail empire It is a drizzly October afternoon and I am sitting in a rural Lancashire pub drinking pints of Moretti with London's leading snail farmer and a convicted member of the Naples mafia. We're discussing the best way to stop a mollusc orgy. The farmer, a 79-year-old former shoe salesman called...

Newser - 16 hours 15 min ago
The US stock market rose near record levels on Wednesday. The S&P 500 rose 20.35 points, or 0.3%, to 6,849.72 and pulled within 0.1% of its all-time high set in late October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 408.44 points, or 0.9%, to...

Newser - 16 hours 34 min ago
An esteemed economic association has banned former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers for life, citing his ongoing friendship with Jeffrey Epstein even after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The nonprofit said Tuesday that it had accepted Summers' resignation and permanently revoked his membership. The 71-year-old, who was...

The Independent - 16 hours 52 min ago
Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, rose to $91,878.30 on Wednesday...

Newser - 21 hours 14 min ago
The US labor market took an unexpected hit in November: Economists were anticipating 40,000 new jobs, but private payrolls actually shrank by 32,000 jobs, according to new data from ADP. This marks a sharp reversal from the prior month, when payrolls grew by a revised 47,000 jobs....

The Independent - 23 hours 10 min ago
Premium Bonds are entered into a monthly prize draw and every bond has equal chance of winning...

The Guardian - 23 hours 14 min ago
Ministers accept watchdog's recommendations on how to help people avoid spending more on formula than needed The government has agreed to implement a plan intended to reduce the cost of buying baby formula, Keir Starmer has said. The announcement comes ahead of the release of the government's child poverty strategy later in the week and follows the removal of the two-child limit for benefits in last week's budget, a move Starmer referred to several times during PMQs on Wednesday. Continue...

CNBC - 1 day 23 hours ago
President Donald Trump knows who he's going to select as the next Federal Reserve chair but isn't saying yet.