Three reasons for the record rise in gold prices, and one why they are falling

McVitie’s Penguin and Club bars are no longer classed as chocolate after rising cocoa prices led the makers to switch to using other ingredients. Club bars had previously been marketed under the slogan: “If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club”. But both treats are now described as “chocolate flavour”…

This year, the return leg of the long-haul flights they monitor had a return date of the Tuesday after Easter Sunday, at the height of peak season. And, as we tend to book in advance, the ONS collected the info on fares in February, so there was no impact from the war.

SpaceX investors have swung from celebration to apparent concern in its first month as a publicly traded company. When shares in the firm, co-founded and led by Elon Musk, first became available for individuals to buy on the public stock market on 12 June, there was an investor frenzy. Although the company had decided to…