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An Aldi store

Aldi workers bag pay rise after ‘outstanding efforts’ during pandemic

A Hotel Chocolat store

Hotel Chocolat boss calls on landlords to change ‘adversarial’ rents system

AO's website

AO World hails record festive sales but cost warning weighs on shares

Tourists on a yacht as they pass a traditional dhow (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Dubai staying open despite a surge in coronavirus cases

Outside the Birmingham bullring

Landlord Hammerson reveals just 41% of rents collected

Cars stand at the factory area during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG ,VW, in Zwickau, Germany (Jens Meyer/AP)

European car sales plunge as pandemic provokes crisis

Moonpig cards and gifts

Moonpig confirms stock market flotation

Money being taken from an ATM

Third of people ‘blocked from paying with banknotes and coins during pandemic’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Government must extend furlough and rates support before Budget – CBI

Xi Jinping (Andy Wong/AP), Narednra Modi and Cyril Ramaphosa (Victoria Jones/Jonathan Brady/PA)

World leaders to address virtual forum after Davos gathering postponed

City of London

Big business told to slash payment times to small suppliers

Money

Tax rises may not be needed to pay for Covid – minister

Stock prices fall

FTSE drifts into the red in subdued trading session

A Boeing 737 Max (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Canada gives green light for return of Boeing 737 Max planes

Piggy bank

Advice firms recommend £20.1bn to be transferred from gold-plated pensions

Rishi Sunak

Food suppliers and events firms call for better access to pandemic funding

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Johnson holds talks with business chiefs on competitiveness and Covid aftermath

Stellantis was created by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot (John Stillwell/Fiona Hanson/PA)

Fourth-largest car company floats on Milan and Paris stock exchanges