Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the EU, starting from next month, after saying that trade talks with Brussels were "going nowhere".
British taxpayers are set to swallow a loss of just over Β£10bn on the 2008 rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as the government prepares to confirm that it has offloaded its last-remaining shares in the lender as soon as next week.
The investment firm which has agreed to buy WH Smith's high street operations has been eliminated from the auction of Poundland, the struggling discounter.
The latest energy price cap announcement brings a welcome if modest reduction in prices for 22 million consumers, and valuable context to the politically corrosive debate over the Winter Fuel Allowance.