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Financial Markets Wall Street

Wall Street and European markets slip after hawkish Powell speech

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell

US Federal Reserve could keep lifting rates sharply ‘for some time’, says Powell

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Electric vehicle owners to be hit by spike in energy price cap

Economic crisis

Bank and FCA end probe into HBOS bankers with no action

Bunzl set to report revenue growth as firm sheltered from inflation effects

Bunzl set to report growth as firm sheltered from inflation effects

Energy price cap

Energy price cap to soar by 80% as Government urged ‘match scale of the crisis’

Postal workers on the picket line at the Royal Mail Whitechapel Delivery Office in east London

Striking postal workers vow to ‘fight hard’ for improved pay deal

Lorna Fillingham, 50, with her 12-year-old daughter Emily-May

‘Our families are going to suffer’: Mothers of disabled children seek bills help

Pylons

Energy bills could double again to £7,300 by April, experts warn

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Energy price cap to rise more than 80% to £3,549 from October 1

Micro Focus International

Micro Focus agrees £5.1bn Canadian takeover

Domestic energy stock

What is the price cap, will it keep rising, and what support is available?

A couple looking in an estate agency window

London home buyers need £35k higher income for mortgage, Zoopla says

Energy costs

Government ‘must intervene on energy or risk economic and mental health crisis’

Energy costs

Next PM will have to introduce fresh measures to deal with energy bills – IFS

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, and Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey, during a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in July

Absence of ministers on morning broadcasters branded a ‘dereliction of duty’

Someone looking at their energy bill on their phone

Energy price cap rise must be cancelled – Sturgeon

Martin Lewis

People will die this winter due to high energy prices – Martin Lewis