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Asda sign

Asda hires Nisa boss to run stores in latest leadership shake-up

Bank of England

Bank of England tries hand at ‘pop-economics’ in new book

Power lines

Energy price rises hitting whole economy, trade body boss says

An LG wave display screen

CES ‘risks becoming non-event’ because of reduced attendance amid Covid concerns

Someone looking at an energy bill

Martin Lewis gives view on whether energy customers should sit tight on deals

A supermarket shopper

Shoppers shun hospitality in favour of supermarkets in December

Ryanair planes

Ryanair sees drop in passengers carried amid Omicron travel curbs

A Poundland store

Andy Bond stepping down as Poundland owner Pepco’s chief over health issues

Shoppers in Canterbury

More than four in five people ‘have experienced increases in living costs’

Lord Bird with Big Issue vendors

Big Issue launches appeal to support its vendors

A lit ring on a gas hob at a home in north London (Yui Mok/PA)

Johnson dismisses calls to scrap VAT from household energy bills

A Nationwide Building Society branch

Nationwide customers complain of delays to incoming payments

New Year’s celebrations

Traders ring in the new year with strongest showing since July

The entrance to the Evergrande Shanghefu residential complex under construction in Beijing

Troubled Chinese developer told to demolish resort

Energy prices

Slashing VAT would not necessarily cut fuel bills, says Downing Street

Models of elderly people on coins

Final salary pension savers urged to make sure they are prepared for retirement

A piggy bank being smashed

Households putting less money in savings and borrowing more on credit cards

Burger King's new vegan nuggets

Burger King launching vegan nuggets in aim to be 50% meat-free by 2030