Budget blamed for first contraction in private sector for a year

Separating wheat from chaff in the farm tax debate | Letters

Hundreds of travellers stranded as Gatwick airport is evacuated – video

Rachel Reeves standing firm against U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers

Electric shock: carmakers battle strict UK electric car rules as big fines loom

Amazon doubles down on AI startup Anthropic with $4bn investment

Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars | Marina Hyde

Milan’s Via Monte Napoleone becomes world’s most expensive shopping street

Owner of Scotsman and Yorkshire Post receives buyout bid

Spain fines budget airlines including Ryanair total of €179m

Bitcoin rises after SEC chair says he is to step down when Trump is inaugurated

UK private sector contracting as firms give ‘thumbs down’ to the budget – business live

Northvolt files for bankruptcy protection in blow to Europe’s EV ambitions

Retail sales slide in Great Britain amid pre-budget uncertainty

Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling? | Polly Toynbee

UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid Cop29 impasse

Average annual energy bill to rise to £1,738 in Great Britain from January

In Greece, our general strike was a flop. Here’s why not enough people joined it | Yanis Varoufakis

Homes for sale with electric car chargers in England and Scotland – in pictures

Tesla’s path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi

Farmers aged 80 and above could get exemption from inheritance tax

McKinsey nears $600m settlement with US government over role in opioid crisis

Royal Mail’s owner considering job cuts and price rises for stamps and parcels

FCA plans to allow lenders longer to respond to car finance complaints

Leasehold reforms face more delay due to Tory flaws, minister says

Defence firm Thales faces bribery and corruption investigation

UK imposes asset freezes and travel bans on three kleptocrats

Farmers aged 80 could get exemption from inheritance tax rule

What does the US Department of Justice want Google to do?

Water watchdog is chasing its tail on executive bonuses | Nils Pratley

Trump’s tax cuts and Musk’s Doge show they have no idea about US debt | Jeffrey Frankel

Bus fare rise is just the ticket for public | Brief letters

Who is Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire charged in the US over bribery plot?

JD Sports shares slump 14% after profit warning

British mining executives held in Mali freed after $160m deal to settle tax dispute

UK government borrowing in October tops forecasts at £17.4bn

Public sector pay rises and debt interest costs push up UK government borrowing; Bitcoin nearing $100,000 – business live

Investors forced to pay for ‘undeserved’ bonuses at three water suppliers

FCA plans to allow lenders longer to respond to complaints over car loan mis-selling

Royal Mail owner blames Labour budget for preventing return to profit

Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life | María Hjálmtýsdóttir

Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing

Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot

FTX co-founder Gary Wang receives no prison sentence for crypto fraud

Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

UK energy suppliers to spend £500m to cushion pain of rising bills

UK inflation rises to 2.3%, increasing pressure to delay interest rate cut

Lidl warns of price rises and HMV of job cuts amid backlash over UK budget

Ford cuts 4,000 jobs in Europe, including 800 in UK, after slowdown in EV sales

BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses

Severn Trent’s profits triple as it fails drinking water risk rules

‘Capitalism incarnate’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels

Tokyo Metro wins contract to operate London’s Elizabeth line

UK inflation climbs to 2.3%, above Bank of England target, after energy bills rise – business live

E.ON must pay £14.5m to prepayment customers after billing failures

Santander puts aside £295m for car loan mis-selling

Enterprise Car Club fined me for someone else’s unpaid fuel

HSBC to open London ‘wealth centre’ in effort to draw in premier clients

Labour wants tax rises to fall on the ‘broadest shoulders’. The farmers furore shows why that’s so hard to achieve | Rafael Behr

UK pension fund loses more than £350m with waste incinerator power plants