Bank of England expected to hold interest rates

Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University, called the deal “concerning”, would leave America’s largest media companies further concentrated in the hands of conservatives. Many of those owners, including the Ellison family, have separate, non news-related business interests that depend on government contracts or regulation and are therefore particularly vulnerable to pressure, he…

Firms across Europe have been switching to electricity from fossil fuels for their industrial needs, encouraged by subsidies from EU funds. While that is helping bring down emissions of climate-warming gases, it has also made firms more vulnerable to power cuts. And in Spain and Portugal that threat was made painfully clear last year. On…