Shoppers visiting Primark.
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By offering a limited click and collect service, the retailer can gauge the benefits versus the costs and hassle of managing product returns.
The London showroom of online retailer Made.com.
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Supply chain difficulties and rising costs have forced Made.com into administration
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt: even in a crisis, don’t expect the government to play with a straight bat.
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Cutting infrastructure spending and maintaining the pensions triple lock are among the questionable moves in Jeremy Hunt’s statement.
Preparing for a cold winter.
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More ambition, particularly in boosting energy efficiency, could help.
Doha. All clean?
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Research shows the strength of team loyalty.
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Female managers and board members have a positive effect on company performance and the environment.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is oveseeing the highest debt interest payments since WW2.
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Swingeing cuts especially to infrastructure spending after 2025 give Labour some choices to make.
Oil rigs, Cromarty Firth in Invergordon, Scotland.
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Redesigning the UK’s windfall tax on energy companies could help it to bring in more money for public spending.
Head down, taxes up.
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Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Adi Imsirovic , University of Surrey ; Cam Donaldson , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Gavin Midgley , University of Surrey ; Hilary Ingham , Lancaster University ; Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete , University of Cambridge ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Peter Bloom , University of Essex ; Shampa Roy-Mukherjee , University of East London ; Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University ; Supriya Kapoor , Trinity College Dublin , and Tolu Olarewaju , Keele University
Our panel of academics responds to the UK government’s latest economic plans.
The Bank of England (pictured) uses OBR forecasts to decide on UK interest rates.
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The OBR’s official inflation forecasts include economists’ expectations, but what about yours?
Rishi Sunak’s government is set to deliver its first budget statement on November 17 2022.
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Sunak and Hunt may hope for some normality after the budget, but markets may not be so content with the details.
Small businesses can benefit from following rules.
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One of the Truss government’s few lasting acts was to cut regulations for small businesses to stimulate growth – but are rules a burden for such firms?
President Joe Biden holding court at COP27.
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A look back at what the COPs have actually achieved.
Crypto trader.
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The rise of decentralised exchanges and growing regulatory pressure could strengthen crypto.
Many businesses simply choose to pay a ransom than suffer the consequences of a cyber attack.
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In a viscous cycle, it’s also becoming harder to get cyberinsurance.
Former FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Stand by for more drama in the days ahead.
Forest fire in Spain, July 2022.
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We don’t really know how much companies care about the environment.
Plenty for the president-elect to think about.
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Lula’s international reputation could be key to the country’s success.
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.
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The latest market chaos is set to continue and could result in more regulatory scrutiny.
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The business world shows that making mistakes can build resilience and prime you to look for better opportunities.
‘What’ll I tell my wife and kids?’
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A new pan-European research project shows that it’s correct in some areas but completely wrong in others.
Lower earners are counting the cost of a growing wage gap.
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The pay gap is growing in UK, which has seen increased strike activity this year.
Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk acquired social media platform Twitter in October 2022.
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As a growing wave of tech companies announce job cuts, more employees are being informed by email or video call.
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It’s not clear what will happen to the safety features that come with Twitter verification.
The Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, London is the Central bank of the United Kingdom.
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The Bank of England expects a long UK recession but believes interest rates may not need to increase much more.