UK Deputy PM Tax Probe, Zelenskiy Paris Talks, Billionaire's Mayfair Headache

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner admitted she underpaid taxes on a property purchase and said she was referring herself to the government’s standards watchdog, the latest blow for Keir Starmer’s Labour administration that calls her political future into question and may have long-standing consequences for the party’s leadership. (2) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says growth is the solution to Britain’s economic problems. At her budget on Nov. 26, she faces the prospect of having to kill it. (3) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with European leaders in Paris on Thursday as he seeks to discuss security guarantees for his country, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. (4) US economic activity saw “little or no change” across most of the country in recent weeks, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts. (5) China’s financial regulators are considering a number of cooling measures for the stock market as they grow concerned about the speed of a $1.2 trillion rally since the start of August, people familiar with the matter said. (6) Apple is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI. Podcast Conversation: Xi Muses on Living to 150 in Hot-Mic Moment With Putin, Kim See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.