{"part":3,"builtAt":1791318502780,"stories":[{"title":"Asos warns customer data may be compromised after ‘unauthorised’ app access","summary":"Shares in fashion company fall nearly 10% after its app systems are accessed by ‘unidentified third party’ Asos is investigating unauthorised access to its app system after shoppers received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” its data. The online fashion retailer said basic personal information including name and contact details might have been accessed by an unidentified third party but it did not believe payment card records or passwords had been compromised.","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/asos-hack-notification-website-app","time":1791308656000,"author":"Sarah Butler and Dan Milmo","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","id":"14yq315"},{"title":"UK events firm that hosts arms fairs and comic shows sold to rival for £2bn","summary":"FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone Business live – latest updates A British events business that hosts arms fairs and conventions for comic book fans has been snapped up by a FTSE 100 rival for more than £2bn. Informa has struck a £2.24bn deal to buy the London-based events organiser Clarion from the private equity group Blackstone","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/informa-buy-clarion-blackstone-ftse-100","time":1791274608000,"author":"Lauren Almeida","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"1fvxf2d"},{"title":"Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns","summary":"Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to do the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. The planned datacentres in Muhos and Kajanni are part of a €13bn (£11bn) project across multiple sites in northern Finland by the technology company amid huge demand for space to house online infrastructure.","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment","time":1791309776000,"author":"Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"15gxt6p"},{"title":"‘It really hammers people’: Scottish islanders hit by highest diesel prices in UK","summary":"Inhabitants of the Hebrides and Shetland tell of how fuel costs are putting the squeeze on commuting, services, food and more As fuel prices reach the highest level in the UK since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Scottish islanders are feeling the pain more than most. On the mainland, the price of diesel has soared to a record high of 200.01p a litre, bringing the cost of filling an average family car to more than £110, according to the RAC. Petrol has risen by a third since the start of the Iran war at the end of…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/scottish-islanders-highest-level-diesel-prices-uk-hebrides-shetland","time":1791262803000,"author":"Patrick Greenfield","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"17vv6mw"},{"title":"UK regulator FCA to investigate how it handled Epstein whistleblower who took his own life","summary":"British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick A top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower – who highlighted alleged ties between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick – after he took his own life. The British banker Simon Andriesz died late last month aged 57, the campaign group Transparency Task Force, of which he was a member…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/uk-regulator-epstein-whistleblower","time":1791262803000,"author":"Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"16vgrsm","note":"This story discusses suicide."},{"title":"Paramount completes $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros to form new media empire Skydance","summary":"David Ellison and ex-Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz to oversee both film studios, HBO Max, CNN and CBS News as co-executives Paramount completed its $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, consolidating some of the world’s most recognizable studios and news outlets after a bidding war with Netflix and months of legal turmoil. The new company, now called Skydance, will have David Ellison, the son of a billionaire tech mogul, at its helm, with the former CEO of Mattel, Ynon Kreiz, as co-executive. They will…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/paramount-warner-bros-skydance-merger","time":1791296096000,"author":"Gaya Gupta","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","id":"tgw6hr"},{"title":"Jailed Lego collector’s insurance scam highlights UK’s £1.3bn fraud problem","summary":"Industry leaders say bogus claims rose 14% last year, pushing up premiums for all customers An insurance fraudster who pocketed more than £14,000 for the supposed theft of Lego sets, fishing gear and gaming consoles was behind one of last year’s most high-profile bogus claims. Investigators uncovered £1.34bn of fraud in 2025, a 14% increase on the year before, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/06/lego-insurance-scam-highlights-uk-fraud","time":1791292043000,"author":"Julia Kollewe","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"r1b3w8"},{"title":"Morrisons is not a must-do deal for Sainsbury’s","summary":"Odds are good the CMA would approve of a supermarket merger. But does Sainsbury’s need Morrisons? Would competition regulators really smile upon a combination of Sainsbury’s and Morrisons? One must assume the two companies believed the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would give a thumbs up if asked, otherwise they would not have initiated their now-aborted merger talks . It’s easy to list the arguments the duo could make. First, the combined market share of Sainsbury’s (15.2%, on the latest numbers from…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2026/oct/06/morrisons-is-not-a-must-do-deal-for-sainsburys","time":1791310208000,"author":"Nils Pratley","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","id":"1stgxzz"},{"title":"Burnham’s surprise EU-turn could deliver the Tories from a generational mess | Gaby Hinsliff","summary":"Badenoch would never have reopened the door on Brexit, but now that the PM has, it suits the Conservatives to let him walk through it There’s no way on earth it should have worked, but somehow he may have got away with it. Last week, the actor Richard E Grant became the first contestant on The Traitors – a show whose only unbreakable rule is never to let anyone know you’re the murderer – to gleefully announce within minutes of being selected that yes, haha, it’s him! Yet even then many of his fellow contestants…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/06/andy-burnham-eu-tories-kemi-badenoch-brexit","time":1791262803000,"author":"Gaby Hinsliff","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"kcot8n"},{"title":"Australian consumer confidence plunges to worst level since 1990s after RBA rate rise","summary":"Key indicator dropped about 20% after the Reserve Bank last month announced the highest interest rates since 2011  Confidence among Australian consumers has plunged about 20% since the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted interest rates to the highest levels since 2011, according to the Westpac–Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index.","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/consumer-confidence-index-interest-rate-rise-australia-rba-housing-renter-mortgage","time":1791266061000,"author":"Australian Associated Press","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-business","section":"business","region":"asia","id":"17c61y2"},{"title":"British Airways plans record 106-seat business class on Airbus A380 jumbo jets","summary":"British Airways is ripping out coach-class seats and building a giant premium economy and business class in a bet on the high-end travel boom.","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/british-airways-business-class-a380.html","time":1791316920000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-business","section":"business","region":"europe","id":"eyehs5"},{"title":"Paramount's hard-fought takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery closed Tuesday. Here's how we got here","summary":"Paramount has faced competing bids and an antitrust hurdle since its earliest attempts to take over WBD. Here's a timeline of key events.","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/paramount-wbd-deal-timeline.html","time":1791299213000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-business","section":"business","id":"1wxd0ho"},{"title":"Lucid's Q3 deliveries fall 6.7% as EV maker cuts production to align with demand","summary":"Lucid delivered 3,806 EVs and produced 2,954 vehicles during the third quarter. That compared with 4,078 deliveries on production of 3,891 vehicles a year earlier.","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/lucid-group-lcid-q3-2026-deliveries-production.html","time":1791234257000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-business","section":"business","id":"44cfls"},{"title":"These are the cheapest and most expensive U.S. flights this November","summary":"Holiday airplane tickets are up more than 23% this year, according to Hopper.","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/cheapest-most-expensive-us-flights-in-november.html","time":1791284877000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-business","section":"business","region":"americas","id":"eqca6e"},{"title":"Trade deficit hits $105.6 billion, widest since just before Trump tariffs enacted last year","summary":"That marked a 13.7% jump from July and was ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for $102 billion.","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/trade-deficit-hits-105point6-billion-widest-since-just-before-trump-tariffs-enacted-last-year.html","time":1791301942000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-economy","section":"business","region":"americas","id":"ntdtpv"},{"title":"World Bank warns of AI concentration risks as it lifts East Asia and Pacific growth outlook to 4.5%","summary":"The World Bank now expects the region to grow 4.5% this year, but flagged that trade growth outside AI-related goods has been \"weak or negative.\"","link":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/world-bank-east-asia-growth-inflation-ai-exports-.html","time":1791259644000,"outlet":"CNBC","feed":"cnbc-economy","section":"business","region":"asia","id":"1q2o43b"},{"title":"What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms","summary":"Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.","link":"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g-s1-146559/morning-edition-2026-midterms-election-voters-states","time":1791284400000,"author":"Majd Al-Waheidi","outlet":"NPR","feed":"npr-business","section":"business","region":"americas","id":"e8f2ib"},{"title":"As Taiwan expands Arizona chip plant, China warns against developing political ties","summary":"The world's biggest chipmaker now manufactures at scale in Phoenix, as well as Taiwan. China is warning political leaders in Arizona to not get too friendly.","link":"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5991929/as-taiwan-expands-arizona-chip-plant-china-warns-against-developing-political-ties","time":1791283976000,"author":"Greg Hahne","outlet":"NPR","feed":"npr-business","section":"business","region":"asia","id":"kyas2w"},{"title":"Disney, ABC battle Trump's FCC in court over free speech protections","summary":"President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, for mocking him. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View , accusing it of being unfair.","link":"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5991831/disney-battles-fcc","time":1791278220000,"author":"David Folkenflik","outlet":"NPR","feed":"npr-business","section":"business","region":"americas","id":"r87wkc"},{"title":"New Hollywood era begins with an epic mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.","summary":"The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger has survived court challenges, public protests and regulatory scrutiny. Now, the Hollywood heavyweight, named Skydance, begins operating.","link":"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5988283/paramount-warner-bros-skydance-merger-david-ellison","time":1791277200000,"author":"Mandalit del Barco","outlet":"NPR","feed":"npr-business","section":"business","id":"8nue36"},{"title":"'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel","summary":"Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq203mymlvkeo","time":1791285859000,"outlet":"BBC News","feed":"bbc-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"1oj1qog"},{"title":"UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents reveal","summary":"Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c64g15v2jqy8o","time":1791266472000,"outlet":"BBC News","feed":"bbc-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"19mslnc"},{"title":"Gloucester Docks dredging project costing £4m begins","summary":"Silt levels in the docks have left boats stranded and led to the docks closing this summer.","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ck9dzlgp6nv7o","time":1791288972000,"outlet":"BBC News","feed":"bbc-science","section":"science","id":"o7glsa"},{"title":"Carbon tracking tower put on Scotland's largest saltmarsh","summary":"It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cky8302y7zejo","time":1791279301000,"outlet":"BBC News","feed":"bbc-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"a1g8sv"},{"title":"UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents reveal","summary":"Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c64g15v2jqy8o","time":1791266472000,"outlet":"BBC News","feed":"bbc-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"19mslnc"},{"title":"Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds","summary":"Experts looking at UK, US and Dutch data found ‘significant increases’ in early onset cases of seven cancers, prompting warnings about lifestyle choices Cases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people in England, major new research has found, prompting warnings that lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives each year. The number of people under 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001, while early onset bowel, kidney and uterine cancer diagnoses more than…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/06/cancer-rates-rising-more-quickly-among-younger-people-international-study-finds","time":1791259261000,"author":"Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"ogxmus"},{"title":"Making scents: could AI help perfumers take pressure off endangered plants?","summary":"Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged, they produce a dark, fragrant resin that becomes agarwood, or oudh – an ingredient so valuable that wild trees have been illegally felled in its pursuit. The result has devastated wild Aquilaria populations. But what if perfumers could create the smell without cutting down the tree?","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/06/fragrance-biotechnology-endangered-plants-perfume","time":1791291615000,"author":"Amelia Hill","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-science","section":"science","id":"5dzlu5"},{"title":"Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos","summary":"Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica The Nobel prize in physics 2026 has been awarded to a researcher who turned an enormous block of ice at the south pole into a detector for ghostly particles called neutrinos that reach Earth from outer space. Prof Francis Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led work on the IceCube neutrino observatory , which made the first detection of high-energy…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-francis-halzen-south-pole-neutrinos-icecube-detector","time":1791285925000,"author":"Ian Sample Science editor","outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-science","section":"science","region":"europe","id":"1hpaq7j"},{"title":"Narcolepsy: why you’ve been thinking about it all wrong – podcast","summary":"The sleep disorder has been the butt of jokes and a comedic plot point, but the reality of living with narcolepsy is anything but funny. Things could be about to change for people with the condition though, after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first ever drug to treat narcolepsy itself, rather than just its symptoms. Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample how the scientific breakthrough came about, and Julie Flygare, who has narcolepsy and founded the non-profit Project Sleep, explains what it…","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/oct/06/narcolepsy-why-youve-been-thinking-about-it-all-wrong-podcast","time":1791259201000,"outlet":"The Guardian","feed":"guardian-science","section":"science","region":"americas","id":"1qlvse3"}],"sources":[{"id":"guardian-business","outlet":"The Guardian","section":"business","ok":true,"stories":10,"ms":45},{"id":"cnbc-business","outlet":"CNBC","section":"business","ok":true,"stories":4,"ms":226},{"id":"cnbc-economy","outlet":"CNBC","section":"business","ok":true,"stories":2,"ms":229},{"id":"npr-business","outlet":"NPR","section":"business","ok":true,"stories":4,"ms":107},{"id":"dw-business","outlet":"DW","section":"business","ok":true,"stories":0,"ms":163},{"id":"bbc-science","outlet":"BBC News","section":"science","ok":true,"stories":5,"ms":128},{"id":"guardian-science","outlet":"The Guardian","section":"science","ok":true,"stories":4,"ms":161}],"filteredCount":0}