US consumer spending slows: Is it a warning for the economy?

Delivery firm DPD could face disruption to its services after some of its drivers began three days of action in a dispute over payments. The drivers involved are refusing to work for three days after DPD said it was cutting the amount it pays for deliveries of small parcels by 65p. One driver told the…

Long-term borrowing costs in the US eased on Wednesday after the Treasury department announced it would buy back more debt. The move came after the interest rate on 30-year bonds, which are a type of debt used to raise funds from investors, hit 5.34% on Tuesday – the highest level in almost 20 years. The…

Aliev, who had worked in finance before doing her MBA, was wary of first impressions at the firm. “If you judge a book by its cover, it’s very easy to be like ‘oh, young girl, Wall Street background, coming in here and telling me what to do’… I was really conscious about that,” she says….

Getty Images US President Donald Trump has introduced tariffs on goods reaching it from countries around the world. Trump argues that the move will boost American manufacturing and create jobs, but critics warn of higher prices and damage to the global economy. But he has also used the taxes to make other demands, and has…

Japanese brewing giant Asahi has been hit by a cyber-attack that has caused a “systems failure” affecting the company’s shipping and customer service operations. Asahi said there had been no “confirmed leakage of personal information of customer data” and its European operations, including the UK, were not affected. But the company said that its order…