Morning Briefing: Friday 6 November 2026
- If you have a pension or an ISA, Thursday’s Wall Street rout and Friday’s falls in Asia and London will show up in your next statement; the FTSE 100 is still up almost 7% this year, and the Nasdaq about 4.6%, so this is a correction from a high, not a wipe-out.
- House prices fell 0.6% in October and the average two-year fix is near 6%: if your deal ends in 2027, as 2.3 million do, budget for a higher rate now rather than hoping Thursday’s rise is reversed quickly.
- Salaries on job adverts will become a legal duty; until the bill arrives, the government is urging firms to publish now, so expect more pay ranges in listings this winter and ask for the figure if one is missing.
Global stocks plunge as AI rout spreads to Asia and London
Trillions of dollars were wiped off technology shares after the Nasdaq fell 5.5% on Thursday, the S&P 500 4.36% and the Dow 3.44%, on fears that the new Democratic Congress will curb data-centre building. Japan’s Nikkei closed 6% lower on…
Bomb hoaxes hit Dublin newsrooms as flight threats enter fourth day
RTÉ, the Irish Independent, Newstalk and Today FM were evacuated in Dublin on Friday after emailed bomb threats, and Sky in London said it had received a security threat, as the wave of hoaxes against European aviation spread to the media.…
Trump promises Iran decision ‘very soon’ as satellites show missile-base rebuilding
Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he would decide shortly whether to strike Iran again: “I would prefer not to destroy what is left of the country, if possible, but I may have to do so. You will know very soon.” Satellite…
Melania Trump hosts Russian and Ukrainian envoys, urges lasting truce
Melania Trump brought Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev, Ukrainian MP Davyd Arakhamia and the two countries’ human-rights ombudsmen to the White House on Thursday, the first time a first lady has hosted representatives of two warring states, a…
Mississippi and Alaska Senate races within 2,000 votes; Hegseth and Rubio stay
Democrat Scott Colom led Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over 1,800 votes in Mississippi on Friday with about 3,600 mail ballots outstanding, and Mary Peltola was around 600 ahead of Dan Sullivan in Alaska, as the last two Senate contests…
House prices fall 0.6% in October, steepest drop in three years
The average UK home cost £296,285 in October, down 0.6% on September and 1.2% on a year earlier, according to Lloyds, whose index recorded its fourth monthly fall in a row and the sharpest since August 2023. Economists had pencilled in a 0…
Burnham to force employers to put salaries on job adverts
Andy Burnham says his government will legislate “as soon as possible” to make pay details compulsory in job advertisements, and is telling firms to start now rather than wait. “Whether you’re a young person starting out or a parent trying…
Tube drivers to strike eight times from 26 November
RMT Tube drivers will stage eight 24-hour strikes beginning at noon on Thursday 26 November, with further stoppages on 17 and 19 December — the last Saturday before Christmas — and on 4 and 6 January and 17, 23 and 25 February, in a disput…
Met chief warns policing ‘heading for failure’ without regional forces
Sir Mark Rowley is using a speech on Friday to argue that policing in England and Wales is “heading for failure” unless the 43 forces are replaced by eight to ten regional ones, hundreds of local commands and a new National Police Service…
Seven arrested as Bonfire Night mobs burn police van in Glasgow
Seven people were arrested after a night of fireworks attacks on emergency crews across Scotland, in which a police van was set alight in Greenside Street, Provanmill, and a police officer and an ambulance worker were hurt as they answered…