Business News
- US and Ukraine sign long-awaited natural resources dealThe White House has been pushing for the agreement as a prerequisite for further military assistance.
- Trump tells business chiefs he needs 'little bit of time' as US economy shrinksThe US president blames the first quarterly GDP decline in three years on his Democratic predecessor.
- Apple referred for possible criminal contempt investigation The tech giant had been ordered in 2021 to allow greater competition and open the App Store up to outside payment options.
- Royal Mail takeover approved by shareholdersThe approval of the £3.6bn deal will see the 500-year institution taken over by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group.
- 'We don't care': A defiant China looks beyond Trump's America Chinese exporters tell the BBC if the US doesn't want their goods, "other countries have money" to buy them.
- Pottery firm goes bust after more than 100 yearsThe directors of Moorcroft Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent say they are going into voluntary liquidation.