Britain’s reality check threatens to be nasty, brutish and far from short
Instead, both Conservatives and Labour hug a suffocating consensus on tax and spend that substantially ignores the deep structural reforms...
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Why weaning Britain off foreign workers could come at a high price
Weaning Britain off immigrant workers will come at a price, bosses warn.Rose Carey, a partner at high-end law firm Charles...
US pushes for Ukraine aid, united front against China’s trade practices at G7 finance meeting
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The U.S. sought to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian...
Neither party has a plan to escape stagnation, and neither has my vote
Economic growth smashed consensus by coming in at 0.6pc in the first quarter. The early evidence is that April and...
Economic growth slows as Britain heads towards election
Adding to the positive sentiment, S&P Global’s flash UK PMI also showed the manufacturing sector enjoyed its fastest growth in...
Abrupt shutdown of financial middleman Synapse has frozen thousands of Americans’ deposits
The bank accounts of tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the...
Why a summer interest rate cut is still in play despite inflation ‘shocker’
The reaction is a blow for Sunak – but, given Bank of England officials have repeatedly hinted at summer cuts,...
Bank of England will cut interest rates in August, says Goldman Sachs
Thanks for joining me. We begin the day with the economic news that has been keenly anticipated by mortgage holders...
UK Fines US Bank Citigroup Over European ‘Flash Crash’
British financial regulators Wednesday fined US bank Citigroup for failures in its trading controls after a "flash crash" incident in...
Citi fined £62m after ‘fat finger’ trade triggered £1.1bn share sale
Citi has been fined £62m by UK regulators after a “fat finger” trade triggered a flash crash on the European...
