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A bar sign in Manchester

Night-time industry launches legal challenge over local lockdown

The Bank of England

Bank of England asks lenders if they are ready for negative interest rates

Amanda Staveley

Businesswoman Amanda Staveley ‘cuts £1.6bn Barclays damages claim’

Alex Cruz

BA boss Alex Cruz shown the door amid coronavirus crisis

Mortgage products

Choice of mortgages shrinks as average rates offered on home loans increase

Notes and coins

Pay gap between ethnic minority and white employees ‘at lowest level since 2012’

CAKE BOX

Cake Box sales bounce back after lockdown closures

An Eddie Stobart lorry

Eddie Stobart returns to profit following accounting scandal

Heathrow arrivals

Heathrow passenger numbers down 81% in September

Royal Mint coin

The Royal Mint releases its first coin commemorating itself

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of business leaders see domestic and international travel as 'key to their future prospects', a new survey suggests (Victoria Jones/PA)

Business leaders see air travel as ‘key to future prospects’ – survey

Rental sector

Economic crisis ‘has widened divisions in rental market’

A young couple look in an estate agent's window

Bank of Mum and Dad ‘helping with around half of home purchases among under-35s’

Research suggests two-thirds of private landlords surveyed in England and Wales expect their rental business to be negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic

Two-thirds of landlords ‘expect business to suffer negatively from Covid-19’

An aerial view of the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk (Steve Parsons/PA)

CBI: Government must trade its way to post-pandemic recovery

Arla

Dairy giant Arla’s UK boss warns shoppers face price rises in no-deal Brexit

Miniature houses on piles of pound coins and banknotes

Which? reveals top-rated mortgage lenders as coronavirus hits customer service

Bristol

Bristol tops list of housing market hotspots in past decade