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Rachel Reeves is pressing your pensions and Stocks and Shares ISAs into the service of the UK economy. And there’s not much you can do about it. In a desperate bid to generate growth and save her own reputation, Reeves is preparing to tell ordinary investors where to put their …

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin unpacks efforts to dismantle the regulatory state on ‘Kudlow.’ The Environmental Protection Agency is targeting climate technology that automatically turns off a car’s engine when it is stopped at red lights to save fuel, a feature agency administrator Lee Zeldin said every driver “hates.” “Start/stop technology: …

Monzo is set to introduce a game-changing feature that allows customers to cancel a bank transfer within seconds if they spot an error, offering a 10- to 60-second window to halt a mistaken payment. The “undo payments” tool has been hailed as a “comfort blanket”. Andy Sacre, head of payments …

Getting behind the wheel is about to get a little more expensive. Tariffs could raise the price of car insurance by nearly ten percent later this year. Getting behind the wheel is about to get a little more expensive. Tariffs could raise the price of car insurance by nearly 10% …

The government has initiated a review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment, as part of Labour’s welfare reform agenda. Liz Kendall has confirmed that efforts to revamp disability benefit assessments are under way this week. Addressing Parliament earlier this week, she said: “It is over a decade since PIP …

Constellation Research founder R ‘Ray’ Wang analyzes Apple and Microsoft’s new Majorana 1 quantum chip on ‘Varney & Co.’ Microsoft has plans to trim its workforce through layoffs. The planned layoffs will reduce the Washington-based tech company’s total workforce by 3%, CNBC first reported on Tuesday. The number of jobs getting …

State pensioners have been encouraged to check if they are eligible for two schemes that could provide an extra £4,000 a year in payments. Payment rates rose 4.1% last month in line with the triple lock, raising the full new state pension from £221.20 a week to £230.25 a week. …

SlateStone Wealth chief market strategist Kenny Polcari discusses whether investors are overreacting to weak market news on ‘Varney & Co.’ UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday said Chairman Stephen Hemsley will return to the helm of the health care conglomerate, succeeding CEO Andrew Witty.  Witty is stepping down for “personal reasons,” effective …

Now here’s the terrifying bit. She’s doing it with your pension pot. Reeves is right to go for growth. Heaven knows we need it, after the damage she’s done. Her tax-and-spend autumn Budget choked off growth almost overnight. Now her “jobs tax” is boosting unemployment and causing chaos. Still, credit …

With summer travel season just around the corner, millions of Americans are already gearing up to get on the road. Travelers are taking to AI to skip most of the hard part: planning. JetBlue decked out one of its planes with a Dunkin’ Donuts-themed livery. The orange and pink-painted plane …