Should K-beauty products have to come from South Korea?
David CannBusiness reporterPureSeoulKorean K-beauty products have caught the imagination of skincare buyers around the worldKorean skincare or "K-beauty" products are very popular around the world.But as exports from South Korea…
Tech giants are spending big on AI in a bid to dominate the boom
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterThe titans of the technology sector are ramping up their spending on artificial intelligence, as they rush to reap the benefits of an AI boom that has pushed…
Thousands on benefits could have energy debt cancelled by Ofgem
Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesNearly 200,000 people on benefits could have their debts to their energy supplier cancelled, if they make some effort to pay what is owed.Unpaid bills…
Spooky spending creeping in weeks before Halloween
Josh Martin,Business reporter and Haider Saleem,JournalistBBCLancashire gift shop and café owner Charlotte Brennan says autumnal trends have "snowballed", with customers buying in to homeware trends to mark the shorter days"It's…
Trump-Xi meeting: How did we get here?
Tit-for-tat tariffs, a shaky truce and turmoil: How we got to the Trump-Xi meetingOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterGetty ImagesDonald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are due to meet on ThursdayUS…
Microsoft Azure outage: Websites come back online
Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back onlineImran Rahman-Jones,Technology reporter and Lily Jamali,North America Technology correspondentGetty ImagesMicrosoft said the Azure outage was due to "DNS issues"Websites for Heathrow, NatWest…
Fed cuts US interest rates again despite ‘flying blind’
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterGetty ImagesUS Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has been criticised by President Trump for not cutting interest rates fast enoughThe US Federal Reserve pushed forward with an interest…
Nvidia becomes world’s first $5tn company
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterNvidia has hit a new milestone, becoming the first company in the world to reach a market value of $5tn (£3.8tn).The US chip giant has rapidly climbed from…
Ofcom proposes new rules to enhance blocking of scam texts
Charlotte EdwardsBusiness reporterNew rules that will make phone networks block scam texts from reaching potential victims have been proposed by Britain's communications' watchdog.Ofcom said these would "address current gaps in…
Boeing hit by $5bn in penalties as new jet delayed
Faarea MasudBusiness reporterAircraft giant Boeing has suffered another setback as it announced production of its much anticipated 777X planes would now be pushed to 2027, costing it $5bn (£3.7bn) in…
Keir Starmer declines to rule out breaking manifesto tax pledges
Paul Seddon,Political reporter and Chris Mason,Political editorWatch: Keir Starmer's two different answers to the same tax questionThe prime minister has declined to stand by his manifesto commitments not to raise…