Faisal Islam on the winners and losers of the interest rate cut

US President Donald Trump is set to announce a plan that would let Americans use their retirement savings for down payments on homes. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who hinted at the plan on Friday, offered few details about how withdrawals from US workplace retirement accounts – known as 401(k)s – would work. “Suppose…

Zoe ConwayNews Correspondent Family tells the BBC of the ongoing impact of botched insulation Tony and Becs Wadley say they can’t spend Christmas at home after insulation installed under a government scheme has caused black mould in several rooms, and their asthmatic son can’t be inside the property. Mr Wadley says the situation is tearing…

Ben & Jerry’s will be destroyed as a brand if it remains with parent company Magnum, the company’s co-founder Ben Cohen has told the BBC. His remarks are the latest in a long-running spat between the ice cream brand and its parent company over its ability to express its social activism and the continued independence…

Revel Collective The owner of Revolucion de Cuba and Peach Pubs is to go into administration, putting as many as 2,200 jobs at risk. Revel Collective, the parent company which has 62 pubs and bars across the UK, put itself up for sale in October after facing what it called “a continued period of external…