• Reuters

    Morning Bid: Markets unsettled by Israel-Iran tit-for-tat

    It was hardly unexpected, but Israel's missile strike on Iran on Friday confirms fears of a dangerous series of tit-for-tat retaliation ahead between the Middle East powers that is likely to seed weeks of uncertainty for world markets too. Against that backdrop, the reaction of oil prices, global stocks and traditional safety trades so far on Friday has been relatively modest.

  • PA Media: UK News

    Investigation finds ‘misleading’ origin labelling on supermarket food

    An Aldi steak and gravy pie had a British flag on its packaging but was made with meat from the EU, Which? found.

  • Reuters

    UAW hopeful of watershed union victory at Volkswagen Tennessee factory

    The United Auto Workers is counting on scoring a seismic victory at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant as unionization votes are tallied on Friday - one that opens up the anti-union U.S. South to organized labor. A win would make the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the South to unionize via election since the 1940s and the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to do so. It would also be a huge shot in the arm for UAW President Shawn Fain's campaign to unionize plants owned by more than a dozen automakers across the U.S., including Tesla.