Its a massive help: Benefits and pensions rise as two-child cap ends

Online retailers Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated in France in relation to the offence of enabling minors to access pornographic content on their platforms, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday. The country’s consumer watchdog had reported the four firms to the prosecution service on Sunday after raising concerns about the sale of…

The government had hit business too hard when it raised employers’ National Insurance contributions in autumn 2024, followed by bigger than expected rises to minimum wage rates, and new employment rights, which had deterred businesses from hiring, investing and growing, he said.

Every week it seems US financial markets are hit by another bout of fear. The latest worries spread this week from the banking sector in the US, after two regional lenders warned they would be hit by losses from alleged fraud. But before that, markets swooned over signs of rekindled US-China tensions, as the two…

Harrison Rolfes, a research analyst a Pitchbook, added Anthropic’s IPO “will be the most scrutinized public offering in tech history”, with investors poring over its business margins, sales and profitability for signs that valuations and costs of AI make financial sense.