Business News Today: How to Verify a Headline in Five Minutes
A five-minute routine for finding the claim, the number, and the source behind any business headline.
Valentina Sokolov · September 24, 2026
Company news across retail, food, leisure and consumer goods: results and guidance, mergers, disposals, closure programs and job cuts. Entries include the figures a company disclosed and the ones analysts asked about. Built for investors, suppliers and competitors needing the development and its arithmetic together.
Company news across retail, food, leisure and consumer goods: results and guidance, mergers, disposals, closure programs and job cuts. Entries include the figures a company disclosed and the ones analysts asked about. Built for investors, suppliers and competitors needing the development and its arithmetic together.
A five-minute routine for finding the claim, the number, and the source behind any business headline.
Valentina Sokolov · September 24, 2026
Boards are keeping chief executives in place while companies strip out the management tier beneath them, new turnover and workforce data show.
Lena Fischer · August 18, 2026
An LBO buys a public company with its own borrowed future cash flow — the arithmetic works when debt is cheap, the business is stable, and the exit door is open.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026
Core inflation strips out food and energy to track the underlying trend. Here is what it measures, how it differs from headline CPI, and why the Federal Reserve tracks a different index entirely.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026
The yield tells you what the stock pays now; the growth rate tells you what it will pay later — and the second number decides whether a high yield is income or a trap.
Lena Fischer · July 18, 2026