• Parents can save £300 annually by shopping around for cheaper baby formula brands to help keep bills down, according to the competition regulator which has made a series of recommendations aimed at tackling prices. But in its final report on surging prices of recent years, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped short of recommending

  • TikTok is back on Apple and Google's US app stories after President Trump said the tech giants would not be fined if they reactivated it. They removed the hugely popular video-sharing app after a law came into effect on 19 January - the day before Mr Trump was inaugurated - requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance

  • The number of first-time buyers rose by almost a fifth last year, according to data from Halifax. The bank said 2024 saw 341,068 people buy their first properties, up by 19% from 2023. While the figures are a rebound from 2023's 22% drop, they are not as high as they were in 2022. That year

  • The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his team to start calculating duties by early April - increasing fears of a global trade war that could also accelerate US inflation. "On trade, I have decided for purposes

  • Deep under the Bank of England, in a network of vaults into which cameras are rarely admitted, sits the world's second biggest known trove of gold. Once upon a time the Bank's vaults stored bullion owned by the Crown but these days they serve mostly as a repository for other central banks and private banks

  • The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is "appalled and disgusted" by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horowitz, who has led the US-based company since the departure of Mr Jeffries , signalled in an interview with Sky News that A&F had examined and transformed its culture. She

  • Taken at face value Donald Trump's embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce. In promising to levy import taxes on any nation that imposes tariffs or VAT on US exports, he is following through on a campaign promise

  • The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is "appalled and disgusted" by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horowitz, who has led the US-based company since the departure of Mr Jeffries , signalled in an interview with Sky News that A&F had examined and transformed its culture. She

  • The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is "appalled and disgusted" by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horowitz, who has led the US-based company since the departure of Mr Jeffries , signalled in an interview with Sky News that A&F had examined and transformed its culture. She

  • The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is "appalled and disgusted" by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horowitz, who has led the US-based company since the departure of Mr Jeffries , signalled in an interview with Sky News that A&F had examined and transformed its culture. She