Real living wage to rise by almost 7% in boost for low-paid UK workers

Hourly rate to increase by 95p to £14.80 in London and by 85p to £13.45 for the rest of the country

Stuart Gulliver obituary

Economic development strategist who helped make Glasgow a cultural centre of international standing in the 1980s and 90s

Chancellor, who is expected to announce tax rises and spending cuts, says effect of leaving bloc worse than predicted

Investment in offices falls amid uncertainty over pricing, volatile geopolitics and the economy

Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms

Rising debt interest and welfare costs push public finances deeper into red before Rachel Reeves’s budget

Public finances figures contain no shocks but will underline need for either hefty tax rises or spending cuts

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank, Ring doorbells and Amazon’s own shopping site among services hit by online outage

Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

GDP rises by 4.8% year on year between July and September, down from second-quarter growth rate of 5.2%

Labour would do well to remember its manifesto promise to revive Britain’s global leadership on development

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book 1929 takes readers back to the crash that changed the US and looks at what we can learn from it today

First Brands and Tricolor failures raise concerns for wider financial sector, including traditional banks

European stock markets have fallen after two US regional lenders disclosed on Thursday that they were exposed to alleged fraud by borrowers

Worries over private credit, tax and spend, skittish bond markets and tariff chaos dominate meeting in Washington