The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the ...
The weak outlook underlines the challenge facing chancellor Rachel Reeves after she pledged that growth was the government’s number one mission. It raised fresh questions about the fiscal outlook, ...
The BoE’s forecasts suggest it will only cut rates two more times over the next three years on the back of higher inflation and weaker underlying growth capacity. The 7-to-2 vote to cut rates with a ...
While the neutral rate is almost certainly lower than 2.75 per cent, the ECB’s current benchmark deposit rate, there is also disagreement about what the exact figure is. It cannot be directly measured ...
Most sectors in the FTSE 100 were up, boosted by strong corporate earnings. AstraZeneca, the FTSE 100’s most valuable company, rose 4.8 per cent following better than expected results. Shares in ...
IRA has unintended consequences on investment landscape for small- and large-molecule drugs stifling the development of new ...
Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but swift market reversals are keeping them on edge ...
Donald Trump faced a backlash from business groups and some in his own Republican party after kicking off a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on the US’s three largest trading partners.
FT: In November, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde suggested an alternative approach: do not retaliate immediately but try to find a constructive solution fast. If this initial stage ...
Last week the Federal Reserve described the US labour market as “solid” and noted that the unemployment rate had stabilised. This week’s monthly jobs report on Friday will put that view to the test.
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei is promising to lift the country’s strict capital and currency controls this year, starting the clock on a high-risk mission that is essential to his ...
The US labour market is also in focus next week with an update on hires and fires over December on Tuesday. Payroll data for January also arrives on Friday with 170,000 non-farm jobs expected to have ...