Bloomberg Ten years since the Bank of England (BOE) last raised interest rates, policy makers are warning Britons to prepare for the next one. “Our foot is pretty much on the floor with the accelerator,” Michael Saunders, a member of the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, told The Guardian in an interview published late on Tuesday. “Households should prepare for interest …

Bloomberg Italians may be about to experience something they haven’t felt in some time: confidence in their country’s financial system. European Union officials capped years of turmoil in Italy’s banking industry by approving a plan to salvage Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, a onetime pillar of the financial establishment brought to the edge of ruin by bad loans …

Bloomberg / WAM Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, said measures barring laptops from the cabins of aircraft departing its Dubai base for the US have been lifted. The moratorium, imposed in March, was removed on Wednesday following work with local authorities and regulators on implementing the ‘heightened security measures and protocols’ required by the US Department of Homeland Security …