Joanna Partridge

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joanna Partridge

Korean beauty products are moving from phone screens to UK high streets as social media drives sales of skincare with the help of eye-catching ingredients such as snail slime and salmon sperm. Retailers are looking to capitalise on the TikTok and Instagram trend for skincare and makeup ranges from South Korea – known as K-beauty – by opening physical stores and launching brands in a push to get consumers to pick up products that havegone viral online.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joanna Partridge

The online rail ticket retailer Trainline has warned of coming “headwinds”, including the expansion of London’s contactless travel zone and economic uncertainty denting foreign travel. Shares in the London-listed company tumbled by as much as 8% during early trading on Wednesday, despite reporting surging profits for the year to 28 February.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joanna Partridge

One of the UK’s largest planned offshore windfarms has been cancelled by its developer, the Danish wind power company Ørsted, as a result of higher costs and greater risk. The fourth phase of the huge Hornsea windfarm development, located off the Yorkshire coast, was expected to include 180 giant turbines, capable of generating the equivalent of enough green electricity to power 1m homes.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joanna Partridge |Michael Sainato

Markets on both sides of the Atlantic rose on Friday after hiring in the US slowed less than expected in April, offering a glimmer of hope that the world’s largest economy was in a better-than-feared position to withstand the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariffs. On Wall Street the S&P 500 was up 1.5% and the Dow Jones rose 1.3% by early afternoon on Friday, while European markets closed sharply higher after official figures showed the US workforce grew by 177,000 last month.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joanna Partridge

Evgeny Lebedev, the owner of the Standard, has pledged to provide funds to keep the newspaper company going after it lost nearly £20m in the year before it went weekly. The paper, formerly the Evening Standard, which had been published daily in London for almost 200 years, was rebranded last autumn in a move to make it a digital-first publication, supported by a weekly print edition, the London Standard.