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Impact of the coronavirus crisis ‘will be with families for many years to come’, warns economist

‘I wish all businesses every success in their endeavours in the weeks and months ahead,’ she says

Regulator is also proposing further support for people with credit cards, store cards and catalogue credit and personal loan customers

Sales boosted as DIY stores and garden centres opened again but spending remains well below pre-Covid levels

Moves to ‘safely reopen our economy’ will put public finances on better footing, says chancellor Rishi Sunak

Campaigners warn measure will not stop fraudsters scamming victims out of their savings

Your guide to extracting the most from your puny pounds

As Topshop reopens to huge crowds, thousands of boxes of clothes remain stacked up in Bangladeshi factories. One factory owner tells Ben Chapman that he will have to close unless he receives payment from Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group soon, leaving thousands of workers – mostly young women – out of work

The Bank of England has kept interest rates at 0.1 per cent and pumped an extra £100bn into the economy in a bid to help the UK out of what is expected to be one of its deepest-ever recessions.

It’s far from clear that there was any danger of a crisis in the UK government bond market. But the Bank’s purchasing programme provides some useful insurance against it