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South Korea Financial Markets

Asian shares drop on talk of US-China sanctions

Chesham Place in central London

Dash for countryside homes in prime property market ‘may have slowed a little’

PayPal reimbursements

PayPal customers should get stronger scam protection, says Which?

Lorries queuing for the Eurotunnel in Folkestone

Brexit questions remain unanswered, British Chambers of Commerce warns

Coronavirus – Sun Dec 6, 2020

Nottingham Christmas market closed after social distancing criticisms

Shopper in Oxford Street, London

Shopper footfall down despite post-lockdown festive flurry

Shoppers queuing in Oxford Street, London

Shoppers fill high streets in England on first Saturday since lockdown lifted

Apple’s Airpods Pro

Apple’s Airpods Pro named Which? product of the year

Empty baskets in a bakery (Tim Goode/PA)

Dramatic impact of Covid crisis on smaller firms revealed

Britannia

Britannia ranked UK’s worst hotel chain for eighth year in a row

Money stock

Pound jumps to a two-year high despite tension over Brexit talks

BiFab workers

Holyrood inquiry urged into BiFab collapse

London's taxi and private hire drivers are to receive an additional 1.5 million face masks and 30,000 bottles of hand sanitiser, Transport for London has announced (TfL/PA)

Taxi drivers to get 1.5m face masks to combat Covid-19

Network Rail engineers work on overhead power lines

Network Rail hit by £1bn funding cut

Brexit

No 10 says Brexit trade talks at ‘very difficult point’

Cineworld closures

Cineworld reacts to Warner Bros move to release 2021 films on HBO Max

Hiring notice

US hiring slows sharply to 245,000 jobs as coronavirus intensifies

An EE shop advertising phone repairs

Majority of consumers ‘more likely to replace broken phone than get a repair’