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A member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting committee has made a case for a steeper cut to interest rates on expectations that an...

Octopus Energy Group is wading into the battle for the future of Britain’s biggest water company as part of a consortium which includes the...

OpenAI’s chief executive and co-founder has told Sky News that his platform is “not for sale” after a group led by Elon Musk launched...

Donald Trump has signed two proclamations imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to the US. A proclamation is a form of...

A group led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4bn (£78.7bn) bid to buy OpenAI just months after the X owner sued the artificial...

Few materials matter quite as much as steel and aluminium. Steel, an alloy of iron and carbon, is the main metallic ingredient in the...

British wholesale gas prices have reached a more than two-year high, risking yet more expensive energy bills. Low rates of gas storage in Britain...

Companies are slowing investment until they see more momentum in the economy, according to a closely-watched report on employment conditions which warns that budget...

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, has called in the bosses of Britain’s biggest high street lenders for a fresh round of talks on the government’s...

Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the US, including from Canada and Mexico. The president...

Throughout the last year the Money blog has been asking Michelin chefs to pick their favourite cheap eats – a meal for two for...

Reports of “ghost broking”, scammers selling fake car insurance, have risen by 30% over the last five years, exclusive data obtained by Sky News...

Legal & General (L&G), the FTSE-100 insurance and asset management group, is preparing to kick off a search for a successor to chairman Sir...

Apple has reportedly been ordered by the UK government to allow it access to encrypted data stored by the company’s users worldwide in its...

The private equity backer of one of Britain’s oldest industrial manufacturing groups is in talks to sell an advanced defence technology business that will...

The government is spending £22bn on “unproven” technologies which will have a “very significant effect” on energy bills, according to an influential committee of...

The Bank of England has cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point, bringing down the cost of borrowing to 4.5%. And in a...

An arms race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy, triggered by recent panic over Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, risks amplifying the existential dangers of superintelligence, according...

US imports racked up a record monthly high in December as companies rushed to secure products in advance of trade tariffs imposed by Donald...