This week
The weekly briefing
One calm email every Thursday: the week's markets and money, hand-picked from the wire and plainly explained. No noise, no 40-item lists. Four minutes, free.
On the wire this week
- UK cost of living squeeze tightens as mortgage rates rise ; JLR announces 4,000 job cuts – business liveEconomy
- Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobsCompanies
- China says it will pump $54 billion into banks and insurers — but their stocks still fellPersonal Finance
- The £70 refund letter that isn't a scamCompanies
- Chancellor to say UK economy 'turning a corner' despite debt concernsCompanies
- Labour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaignersMarkets
- UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fundMarkets
- UK house prices fall for first time since 2023, led by London and south-eastPersonal Finance