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  • Target's stock shares slide as consumers buy fewer goods<br>epa11361866 People shop at a Target store in Los Angeles, California, USA, 22 May 2024. Target posted a year-over-year sales decline and missed Wall Street's earnings estimates as consumers faced with inflation are buying both fewer discretionary items and groceries. This marks the first time since November 2022 that Target missed earnings expectations. EPA/ALLISON DINNER

    US consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, drawing Fed closer to cutting interest rates

    Joe Biden says in statement that falling prices and rising wages are ‘thanks to my economic plan’
  • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Senators accuse JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon of backtracking on climate commitments

  • A hand holding a phone screen displaying the Etsy logo, in front of the Etsy website on a desktop screen

    ‘A lazy solution’: Etsy sellers say ban on sex toys is a betrayal

    Faced with little time to find new platforms, sellers say ban also furthers idea that sexual pleasure is ‘taboo’
  • Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang, founder and head of the private investment firm Archegos.

    Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury

    Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021
    • A worker on a crane removes a sign.

      Elon Musk beats $500m severance suit over mass Twitter layoffs

    • OpenAI logo on a phone, with a keyboard in the background

      Microsoft drops observer seat on OpenAI board amid regulator scrutiny

    • person wearing gold hat with pink, blue and white castle in the background

      Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout

    • man in suit and glasses speaks

      Cutting interest rates ‘too late or too little’ could hit jobs, Fed chair warns

In depth

  • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

    ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

  • A young woman stare exasperatedly at a kitchen setup.

    ‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work

    The hit show shows how kitchens are pressure cookers of stress, but not how professional cooking ravages the body
  • Rows of glass jars and dispensers filled with different foods

    ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

    After success of bottle deposit schemes, some retailers are trying to widen culture of reuse – and start tackling Europe’s waste problem

    Around the world

    • Fans watching England v Slovenia at the Green Duck Beer Company in Stourbridge

      England’s pubs prepare to pull 10m extra pints on Euros final day

    • The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co outside the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul, South Korea

      Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

    • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

      ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

    • Turbines on Green Rigg windfarm, Northumberland

      Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

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