Scottish Power has launched a new energy plan that allows customers to fix their bills

More options for savers seeking real returns

New current account offers 3 per cent interest and cashback on bills

Online broker is revamping its charging structure

James Max, the FT columnist, takes questions from readers about the misery of household chores

A third of self-employed reported working reduced hours during the first two weeks of lockdown

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit

Key markets simmering during the thin trading sessions around year-end

Loss would be a blow to London market and unpalatable to some UK-based fund managers

Optimism, not pessimism, could spark future takeover offers for UK investment houses

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

Political goodwill for Spire Healthcare could act as a tailwind once virus impact eases

Mauricio Leyva to advise German family company on expanding beverages arm

Ireland’s richest man O’Brien faces struggle to refinance former cash cow’s debt pile

State-owned oil group faces risk of further rating downgrades and grapples with output woes

In contrast with many global peers, Petrobras has made scant efforts to diversify into green energy

One of Latin America’s top real estate developers puts some of his triumphs down to luck

The former Fox CEO commits millions to battle against disinformation

This inaugural ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate reveals the dominance of the US and technology — the top-ranked company this year is an augmented reality and video game developer

Technology bolsters US dominance of the list, but coronavirus fallout looms large

Pledges to donate Covid-19 test kits pour in from groups including Vale and Petrobras

SoftBank-funded fintech challenger Ualá expands rapidly amid the pandemic

Bank blames low-interest environment and impact of banking regulation

Withdrawal fees soar to £104m and banks save £120m in ATM shake-up

Advisers warn the widening landscape is confusing investors and preventing people from saving

How to navigate government help schemes, the benefits system, redundancy pay and help from banks

Take steps to improve your relationship with money and the role it plays in your life

A live blog from FT.com

Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

US job gains since financial crisis wiped out. Switzerland faces sharpest economic contraction since 1974. UK and eurozone business activity hit by historic collapse this month as lockdowns choked Europe’s biggest economies.

The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

In today’s news: UK warns it would be ‘irresponsible’ to discuss easing lockdown. Spain sets out plan to lift its own tough measures. Donald Trump signals a halt to his daily media briefings as US death toll accelerates.

New daily cases of Covid-19 around the globe rose by the lowest amount in 12 days as 73,858 diagnoses were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total to 2.93m

Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

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Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

The FT's live blog on the Covid-19 pandemic

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says no other option remains but to maintain the state of alert

Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster