Rent is only the start. The owners who last are the ones who priced their first bad month before they ever lifted the shutter.

Free charts can flatter or frighten you. A few plain checks show which numbers are worth believing and which are noise.

Readers who kept the habit say it changed how they start the day. Researchers are less sure, but the routine is hard to argue with.

Shippers are paying more for the same crossing, and the queue of vessels outside the busiest harbours shows little sign of shrinking.

New figures point to the largest gain in a decade, though the people who remain uninsured are proving the hardest to reach.

Supply lines bent, offices emptied and spending moved online. Economists are still counting which of those changes will stay.

The screens look free. The spreads, transfer charges and inactivity costs are where the money quietly goes.

Managers who recover a bad quarter rarely push harder. They narrow the list, call the warm leads and cut everything else.