• PA Media: UK News

    Sunak insists he is ‘energised’ and election outcome not a ‘foregone conclusion’

    The Prime Minister struck a defiant note in the face of persistently dire polling for the Tories ahead of Thursday’s contest.

  • Reuters

    Russia seen hiking rates by 200 bps to 18% in July as inflation quickens

    The Russian central bank will hike rates by 200 basis points to 18% later this month as it tries to quell stubbornly high inflation that analysts now expect to end 2024 well above the bank's 4% target, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday. The economy ministry reported annual consumer inflation at 8.61% as of June 24. Ten of 16 analysts and economists polled by Reuters in late June and early July predicted that the Bank of Russia would raise its key rate to 18% on July 26.

  • Associated Press Finance

    Arthur Crudup wrote the song that became Elvis' first hit. He barely got paid

    Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. Despite being dubbed “the father of rock ‘n’ roll,” Crudup received scant songwriting royalties in his lifetime because of a recording contract that funneled the money to his original manager. Crudup died 50 years ago, leaving behind one of the starker accounts of 20th century artist exploitation.