Should K-beauty products have to come from South Korea?
Business 2025-10-30 09:00
Sales of Korean skincare treatments continue to soar, but some are now made by overseas companies.

Spooky spending creeping in weeks before Halloween
Business 2025-10-30 09:00
Spending on Halloween now tops £1bn and UK shoppers are looking beyond sweet treats and pumpkins

Thousands could have energy debt written off but bills would go up for others
Business 2025-10-30 09:00
Regulator Ofgem plans to cut £500m from the stack of customer debt - but other billpayers will cover the cost.

Tit-for-tat tariffs, a shaky truce and turmoil: How we got to the Trump-Xi meeting
Business 2025-10-30 08:00
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are set to meet to discuss a trade deal.

Tech giants are spending big on AI in rush to dominate the boom
Business 2025-10-30 07:00
Earnings reports from Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft reaffirm that giants are ramping up their spending on artificial intelligence, as they rush to reap the benefits of an AI boom.

Fed cuts US interest rates again despite 'flying blind'
Business 2025-10-30 03:00
Central bank votes to lower cost of borrowing even as US government shutdown limits data for decision

Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down amid global Microsoft outage
Business 2025-10-30 02:00
Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform are hit with DNS issues, similar to Amazon's recent outage.

Watchdog proposes new rules to increase blocking of scam texts
Business 2025-10-30 01:00
The plans involve blocking hundreds of millions more scams from reaching potential victims and locking scammers out of networks.

Nvidia hits new milestone as world's first $5tn company
Business 2025-10-30 01:00
The US chip-maker has rapidly climbed from a niche graphics-chip manufacturer to an AI titan.

Boeing hit with $5bn in penalties as new jet delayed
Business 2025-10-30 00:00
The beleaguered firm said it now plans to deliver 777X jets starting from 2027.
