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UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned on Sunday that “everyone” will be paying more tax after his Autumn Statement, as he also said he was preparing significant cuts to public spending. Hunt is expected to set out tax rises and spending cuts worth about £55bn a year as he seeks to fill a gaping hole in

FTX is investigating abnormal transactions as analysts said hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets had been withdrawn, in a fresh blow to creditors of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire following its collapse into bankruptcy. The company’s general counsel Ryne Miller said on Saturday that FTX was “investigating abnormalities with wallet movements related to consolidation of

FTX has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US after it was unable to meet a torrent of withdrawals, marking a stunning collapse for Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire that was valued at $32bn just months ago. The filing in a federal court in Delaware on Friday includes FTX’s US entity, Bankman-Fried’s proprietary trading group Alameda

US stocks shot higher and Treasuries rallied on Thursday after October’s closely watched inflation data came in cooler than expected, setting the stage for lower Federal Reserve rate rises. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 added 4.1 per cent in early New York trading while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite jumped 5.7 per cent. In government bond

Control of the US Congress hung in the balance on Wednesday after Democrats put up an unexpectedly strong fight in the midterm elections, while Republicans insisted they were on course to take back at least the House of Representatives. Republicans notched up a string of convincing victories, particularly in Florida, where governor Ron DeSantis cruised

A plan by ministers to review or repeal all EU laws on the UK statute book by the end of 2023 has suffered another setback after the discovery of 1,400 additional pieces of legislation. Rishi Sunak has started backing away from his ambitious proposals to scrub Britain’s statute book of unwanted EU laws, by abandoning

Oil and gas producers have branded the UK one of the most “fiscally unstable” regimes in which to do business, as chancellor Jeremy Hunt examines a further increase in windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies. In a letter seen by the Financial Times, an industry group representing 20 British oil and gas companies — including top-10

US oil producers have raked in more than $200bn in profits since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as they cash in on a period of geopolitical turmoil that has shaken up the global energy market and sent prices soaring. Aggregate net income for publicly listed oil and gas companies operating in the US came to $200.24bn

Elon Musk has begun to slash Twitter’s 7,500-strong workforce as the social media platform’s new billionaire owner warned of a “massive drop in revenue” following his contentious $44bn buyout of the group. As Musk embarks on the cost-cutting cull, he claimed on Friday that Twitter “has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist

US jobs growth rose at an unexpectedly rapid clip in October, defying expectations for a larger slowdown as the historically tight labour market again showed resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive efforts to curb demand. The economy added 261,000 positions last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points to 3 per cent in its most forceful act to tame inflation for 30 years but signalled that borrowing costs would not rise in the future by as much as markets expect. The pound fell 2 per cent against the dollar, which had

Grain shipments from Ukraine will resume on Wednesday after Russia agreed to rejoin a UN-backed initiative to allow exports via the Black Sea, ending a stand-off that threatened to reignite a global food crisis. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, had phoned his Turkish counterpart to say Moscow was

Banks that lent $12.7bn to Elon Musk for his $44bn Twitter takeover are preparing to hold the debt until early next year as they wait for the billionaire to unveil a clearer business plan they can market to investors, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. Barring an unexpected rally in credit markets

Britishvolt is preparing to enter administration as early as Monday after the troubled UK battery start-up failed to secure additional funding, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The company, which has been developing a £3.8bn gigafactory in north-east England, has been in emergency fundraising talks for weeks after running down its cash

The US and EU have criticised Russia’s decision to pull the plug on the wartime deal that unblocked the passage of millions of tonnes of grain via southern Ukraine, with traders and food security experts saying Moscow’s move would fuel a fresh spike in prices and increase hunger levels among poorer countries. Washington called Moscow’s

Elon Musk has joined the elite club of social media barons after clinching a $44bn takeover of Twitter in the same week that investors wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from Big Tech valuations. Musk’s drawn-out acquisition of Twitter, which he launched in April but attempted to abort in July, has closed just as a

Elon Musk has closed his $44bn deal to take Twitter private, bringing an end to one of the most high-profile and dramatic buyout sagas in recent memory after months of legal wrangling between the world’s richest man and the social media platform. As the billionaire entrepreneur took over on Thursday night, he fired Twitter’s chief

Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden signalled the oil and gas group was ready to pay higher taxes as its announcement of $9.5bn in third-quarter profits prompted renewed calls for additional levies on energy companies. The profits are only surpassed in the company’s history by the previous quarter’s $11.5bn, leaving Europe’s largest energy major on

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delayed the date for his long-awaited medium-term fiscal plan from October 31 to November 17, as calmer markets give the government some economic breathing space. Hunt made the announcement on Wednesday morning after talks with new prime minister Rishi Sunak, who wanted more time to go through the details of

US aerospace and defence group Raytheon Technologies received a third-quarter revenue boost from the recovering commercial air travel industry, but its missiles unit took a hit from continued supply chain constraints. Raytheon’s third-quarter revenue reached $17bn, up 5 per cent over the same period last year, slightly missing analyst estimates of $17.2bn. The top line