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Sales tumble 10% for small firms as cost crunch hits shoppers

Manufacturing plant

Manufacturing sector shrinks for first time since May 2020 as recession looms

US senator Bernie Sanders speaking during a Save London Transport rally at TUC Congress House, London

Bernie Sanders backs RMT and striking UK workers in fight against ‘oligarchs’

Stephen Fitzpatrick

Ovo founder unveils energy crisis plan and calls for urgent action

Nadhim Zahawi

Chancellor: No-one should be cut off because they can’t afford energy bills

House for sale

House price growth cools as property market loses momentum, Nationwide says

Reckitt

Reckitt boss to leave after three years at the helm

Fall in living standards

Think tank: millions more face absolute poverty amid terrifying fall in income

Banknotes and coins

Dip in the number of Isa millionaires as stock market volatility takes its toll

A woman with her electric fire on at home

400,000 households unprotected by energy price cap, NHF warns

An Avanti train at Euston station

Rail workers to stage fresh strikes

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Johnson to make energy speech amid reports he will sign off Sizewell C project

US treasury secretary Janet Yellen, right, with the United Kingdom’s Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi at the Treasury Department in Washington

Yellen discusses Russia oil price cap as Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi visits US

Abrdn sign

Fund manager Abrdn drops from FTSE 100 in reshuffle

Stock prices fall

Pound slide continues as energy and oil firms weigh on FTSE

Members of the Communication Workers Union demonstrate during a strike outside Belfast Town Hall

Postal and telecoms workers hold strike rally in Belfast

A Snapchat user

Snapchat’s parent company to cut staff by 20%

Reach strike

Dividends paid to Reach shareholders would fund 7% pay rise, union says