FTSE 100 LIVE: Interest rates kept at 0.1% – savers warned negative rates still an option

Microbusiness owners including retailers, hairdressers and builders fear they have just nine weeks left before being forced to stop trading – despite lockdown being eased. A study of 1,000 microbusiness owners – those with fewer than 10 employees – revealed the pandemic has had a crippling effect on their finances.

SMALL businesses have slammed Amazon after it announced it would raise its fees in response to the Government’s new digital sales tax.

BORIS Johnson yesterday urged the public to have the confidence to get back to work to help fire up the economy.

US EMPLOYMENT growth is expected to have slowed significantly in July as COVID-19 cases soar. This would provide the clearest evidence yet that the economy’s recovery from the recession caused by the pandemic is faltering.

THE Bank of England has announced interest rates are to remain unchanged at 0.1 percent today in its latest monetary policy.

WHSMITH has warned it could axe up to 1,500 jobs after it was crippled by the coronavirus pandemic.

GOLD price hit $2,000 for the first time this morning as the coronavirus pandemic has fuelled inflation.

OIL prices have slipped over fears a new wave of coronavirus infections could halt fuel demand.

DW SPORTS’ entering administration is set to put nearly 2,000 jobs at risk, just months after its chief executive made a devastating confession over the business’s future.

GLOBAL stocks flew this morning as investors appeared to be feeling positive about economic recovery amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.