Eighth consecutive cut could heap fresh pressure on already struggling lira

Business cannot expect emergency cash without sensible conditions

Eight-and-a-half-hour day is needlessly long, say customers

Watchdog also offers concession on post-Brexit share trading

Industry bodies had been lobbying for longer postponement over fears of hit to bond markets

Energy companies facing climate protests need to limit the wasteful use of their products

Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off

Shareholders’ incentives can make them more long-termist than company managers

Central African Republic has just three ventilators for its 5m people

Trading restrictions did not work in the past; there is less reason for them to work this time

Company to refund fraction of policy premiums to reflect reduction in driving  

As corporate insolvencies soar and firms try to hang on to their cash as long as possible, expect to hear a lot more about trade credit insurance.

Central banks repeatedly set the stage for the next boom and bust cycle, fuelled by growing debt

Your question for our expert — and readers’ advice

Companies have option to unshackle themselves from expensive payouts

Consumers seeking quick cash unload designer bags, jewellery and luxury watches

‘We are ready to go further,’ says French minister after issuing temporary prohibitions

AMF chairman cites uncertainty around dividends and coming downgrades to credit ratings

Gillian Tett on the city's struggle to contain the virus and the financial fallout

Uncertainty over loan forbearance prevents savings being passed on

Music royalties specialist has done well in a strong market for alt investment trusts

Market is full of cautionary tales about investors betting on familiar stocks

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

The Europas Awards — which have been recognising the hottest European tech startups in since 2009 — are now open for the public voting stage, prior to the formal judging process. The entries have been sorted and sifted by journalists to compile an editorially-driven ‘long list’ of some of Europe’s most exciting startups and investors. […]

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

The last time America sold war bonds they were essentially a tax on savers

Assigning an economic value to life is taboo — but we must confront the trade-offs

Gillian Tett on how to assess risk in the age of coronavirus

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Happy Saturday and welcome back to an Equity Shot, a short-form episode of Equity where we drill into one particular topic. There was so much news this week in our main areas of focus — startup funding rounds, new venture funds, that sort of thing — that we had to exclude earnings from the main […]

The German finance minister’s proposition on EU deposit insurance are not quite what they seem

The continent could become a playground of conflicting US, Chinese and Russian interests

Research shows that the policy has had an adverse effect on economic growth

With conferences canceled indefinitely, companies are increasingly reliant on online events to hype product launches. As they prepare to release a next-gen console before the end of the year, expect plenty of live streams and blogs from both Microsoft and Sony in an attempt to flesh out all that their respective systems have to offer. […]

Online retailer hopes to avoid fate of non-banks whose value surpassed country’s biggest lender

HMRC has sent an email saying that my tax code has changed

I would like to pay her but am worried the IR35 tax changes in April could complicate matters

I’m still worried about being investigated by HMRC despite the 12-month postponement

My employer has said that if we don’t cut salaries redundancies will be on the cards

Happy Saturday and welcome back to an Equity Shot, a short-form episode of Equity where we drill into one particular topic. There was so much news this week in our main areas of focus — startup funding rounds, new venture funds, that sort of thing — that we had to exclude earnings from the main […]

With police enforcing the lockdown, it may mean new roles for some old telly favourites

Adobe has taken quite a bit of heat for its release of Photoshop on the iPad, mostly because it’s not as feature-complete as a lot of users were hoping, given that this is meant to be a full version of Photoshop on par with the desktop edition on Apple’s tablet OS for the first time. […]

Adobe’s Photoshop on the iPad got off to a rocky start that doesn’t seem to have left fans of the desktop version very happy, but the company looks intent on incorporating user feedback and releasing meaningful feature updates on a timely basis. Like today, for instance, it’s adding “Select Subject” to the iPad version of […]

Adobe’s Photoshop celebrates its 30th birthday today. Over that time, the app has pretty much become synonymous with photo editing and there will surely be plenty of retrospectives. But to look ahead, Adobe also today announced a number of updates to both the desktop and mobile Photoshop experiences. The marquee feature here is probably the […]

Britain’s demands for its negotiations with the EU are unrealistic

Britain’s new chancellor would be wise to treat it as a holding operation

There are few more messages more timely than the opening line, “Dance your cares away, worry’s for another day” (or is it “worries?”). Today the familiar Fraggle Rock bass line returns, along with the titular felt underground dwellers, as the first of a new series of mini-episodes hits Apple TV+. Apple’s streaming service will post […]

Google Meet — the video call service formerly known as Hangouts Meet, which itself was an offshoot from Hangouts, not to be confused with Google Chat, Duo, Allo or any of the company’s other communications products — is finally making its debut on Gmail accounts, where it probably should have been since 2010. Everyone with […]

Kingdom offers crude to US at a premium but shows reluctance to lose Asian market share