Finance

Gold prices jumped to a record high on Monday as Donald Trump launched trade tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China. The yellow metal peaked at $2,830.31 per ounce on Monday afternoon, as investors put money into the ’safe-haven’ asset.

Almost two in five people have failed to scan at least one item when using self-checkout machines.

An estimated 1.1 million people missed the deadline for filing their annual tax returns, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Lloyd, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland are having issues with their apps and online banking - as hundreds cannot access their accounts.

U.S. President Donald Trump has earned over $802 million since the launch of the meme coin OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP), which was introduced on January 18, 2025.

U.S. activist investor Boaz Weinstein may have suffered a defeat in the first vote on his plans to shake up Britain’s investment trust industry, but bosses in the 269 billion-pound ($333 billion) sector will not be sleeping easy.

Barclays customers are experiencing intermittent errors with payments and transfers for a second day after serious IT problems that also affected the bank’s app and online banking.

Court papers seen by the Guardian mean Jes Staley’s appeal against FCA ruling will demand answers on links to sex offender.

Donald Trump, who promised during his election campaign to make the United States the global crypto capital, launched his own cryptocurrency just days before his inauguration.

Rachel Reeves could be poised to use a £5.2billion Bitcoin windfall to help address Labour’s much-lamented "black hole" in the public finances.

Donald Trump’s official cryptocurrency has plunged by 32% over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, Spain is looking to ban non-EU residents from buying homes in the country.

Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched her own cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband’s inauguration, making billions in a matter of minutes.

Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals

President-elect Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency on Friday, sparking a feverish buying that apparently sent its market capitalization soaring to several billion dollars.

Donald Trump’s return to White House and Rachel Reeves’s call for regulators to help drive UK growth taken into account.

UK economy predicted to grow by 1.6% this year as fund warns of potentially destabilising effect of Trump policy.

The U.K. delayed its implementation of global banking rules by one year due to uncertainty over what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will do.

Early Bitcoin adopter learns hard lesson as legal case underscores crypto tax compliance risks.

Elon Musk is being sued for failing to disclose his purchase of Twitter stocks before buying the company in 2022, which ‘allowed him to underpay’ by at least $150m (£123m).

Lloyds Banking Group, owner of subsidaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland is making a huge changes to services across all its bank branches.

The pound has dropped to a 14-month low in early trading in London, as the bond-market sell-off fuels anxiety over UK assets.

The UK has spent more than £100 million on public inquiries every year over the past decade...

Denise Coates, chief executive of the gambling firm Bet365, took a massive pay cut last year, but still received a package worth almost £158m.

T3 FCU exemplifies the power of public-private collaboration in real-time cryptocurrency crime-fighting, freezing over USDT 100 million in illicit assets.