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Live news updates: UK retailers face ‘little festive cheer’ as outlook darkens

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Markets Briefing. Global stocks slip after China’s zero-Covid protests

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Xi faces stiffest challenge to rule as Covid outrage sparks mass protests

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Xi faces stiffest challenge to rule as Covid outrage sparks mass protests

Demonstrations in China stamped out by Monday but analysts warn of reprisals if dissent flares up again

Xi’s pandemic triumphalism returns to haunt him

Leon Black accused of raping woman at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home

Leon Black accused of raping woman at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home

Lawyer for Apollo founder says the allegations are ‘baseless’

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Top Fed official warns US unemployment could hit 5% next year

Top Fed official warns US unemployment could hit 5% next year

John Williams says he expects job losses to rise as central bank battles inflation

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Chinese politics & policy

Xi’s ‘myth of infallibility’ under threat as zero-Covid protests rattle China

Communist party boss must decide whether to relax his signature policy or crush demonstrations

Xi’s ‘myth of infallibility’ under threat as zero-Covid protests rattle China

Rolls-Royce tests hydrogen-fueled aircraft engine in aviation world first

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Climate Capital. Rolls-Royce tests hydrogen-fueled aircraft engine in aviation world first

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Lagarde says ECB ‘not done’ raising interest rates

Eurozone interest rates

Lagarde says ECB ‘not done’ raising interest rates

Central bank president strikes bearish tone in spite of hopes for easing inflation data

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It is time to revisit the 2% inflation target

Olivier Blanchard

Shell to buy Europe’s biggest biogas producer for €1.9bn

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Shell to buy Europe’s biggest biogas producer for €1.9bn

Deal for Denmark’s Nature Energy marks oil major’s latest move to diversify away from fossil fuels

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Canyon Bicycles targets motorists with ‘SUV’ and cargo bikes

European brand seeks growth through sturdier models suited to shopping and other city dwellers’ needs

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H2O tells clients French regulator did not accuse it of fraud

Asset manager moves to reassure customers after French authorities accused it of ‘grave’ rule breaches

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Access to EU public registers ends: ‘We are going back to era of corporate secrecy’

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