Alphabet shares sink after cloud growth stalls and spending surges; Palantir surges 24% as group predicts windfall from Musk’s government cuts

Britain’s situation remains fragile; Big Four accounting firms set to miss female partner targets for 2025; UK’s labour market tsar calls for crackdown on bogus self-employment

Nov 30, 2024 · Big Chinese naval exercise leaves Taiwan and US struggling for response; Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk; Endemic discontent leaves little sympathy for US health insurers

Ex-Goldman analyst ordered to pay £587,000 for insider dealing; Trafigura’s former chief operating officer sentenced to 32 months in jail; Canada warns Trump’s tariffs could leave US reliant on Venezuela’s oil

Wealthy Britons gift more money over inheritance tax fears; Insurers in court battle with UK businesses over Covid furlough scheme; Gen Z Americans are leaving their European cousins in the dust

The inside story of Britain’s failure to clinch £450mn AstraZeneca deal; UK house prices rise to record high; Starmer tells ministers to push ‘further and faster’ for growth

UK pledges huge increase in computing capacity to build AI industry ; British Steel blunder forced Scunthorpe blast furnace closure; Tulip Siddiq faces calls to resign after Bangladesh leader’s remarks

Reform UK woos former Tory donors with Mayfair fundraising dinner ; Reeves to go ‘further and faster’ for growth after recent turmoil ; Britain boosts electricity exports to France because of high winds

Japanese investors dump Eurozone bonds at fastest pace in a decade; Crypto is celebrating but Trump’s boosterism could end badly; Animal spirits in markets risk running too far

Is corporate America going Maga? Spain proposes 100% tax on property purchases for non-EU buyers; Qantas delays flights to avoid SpaceX rocket parts