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Economics

8 October 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Reeves to press ahead with plans to borrow billions for investment

  • Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.<br>MN29Y4 Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.

    The Guardian view on Israel and Iran: there will be no winners from an all-out war

  • Composite of Tory leadership contenders (L-R): James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Cleverly, Badenoch and Jenrick stay in Tory leadership race as Tugendhat knocked out – as it happened

  • Shein’s logo and their web shop.

    Business live
    Shein’s UK profits double; Water companies penalised for poor performance; China targets EU brandy – as it happened

7 October 2024

  • woman wearing glasses and blue top speaks into microphone

    Warren and Dean demand Coke, Pepsi and General Mills stop ‘shrinkflation’

    Democratic lawmakers accuse companies of shrinking product sizes while charging consumers the same price
  • A BP petrol station.

    Business live
    Anger over ‘BP abandoning goal to cut oil output’; 2,000 jobs saved, 1,000 lost, after TGI Fridays sale – as it happened

    BP CEO Murray Auchincloss has dropped a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030, reports Reuters
  • Rachel Reeves

    More than 70 retailers urge Reeves to make 20% cut to business rates

    In letter to chancellor, Tesco and M&S are among firms warning tax could result in widespread store closures

6 October 2024

  • Eric Schmidt

    Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt to attend UK international investment summit

    Labour hopes the gathering will encourage a fresh injection of private money to drive its growth agenda
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Labour must ensure benefits of future growth are shared equally across Britain

    Larry Elliott
    Regeneration efforts in former coalmining communities have not led to enough job creation
  • Victorian properties in Eaton Square, Belgravia, London.

    Increase wealth taxes to stop rise of Reform UK, says ex-Labour minister

    Liam Byrne has warned the chancellor that extra levies on the rich are needed to halt the rise of the populist right

5 October 2024

  • An aerial view of construction on the high-speed railway in Birmingham

    Less haste more speed will win Labour the race to fix 21st-century Britain

    Phillip Inman
  • Torsten Bell

    Labour MP defends chancellor’s refusal to bring in wealth tax

4 October 2024

  • The intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in the Financial District in New York.

    Business live
    Dollar strengthens after US beats forecasts with 254,000 new jobs in September – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
  • The Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in the City of London

    Bank of England chief economist urges caution over interest rate cuts

    Huw Pill’s comments come a day after governor Andrew Bailey raised prospect of ‘more aggressive’ cuts
  • Monthly change in US jobs

    US adds over 250,000 jobs in September, defying fears of slowdown

    Job creation unexpectedly accelerated in September as unemployment rate slipped to 4.1%

3 October 2024

  • Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England.

    Business live
    Pound heads for biggest fall in 18 months after Bank of England governor hints at ‘more activist’ rate cuts; Oil hits $77 per barrel – as it happened

  • Andrew Bailey

    Sterling drops after Bank of England boss hints at ‘aggressive’ rate cuts

2 October 2024

  • A ship's hull piled high with containers in the foreground, with the Manhattan skyline in the background

    Global supply chains are under pressure again. Will inflation start rising?

    Conflict in the Middle East, a strike at US ports, problems at the Panama Canal … a rush of problems could create a crisis for exporters

1 October 2024

  • Black smoke billows from a large oil tanker which is being towed for salvage

    Financial markets could still avoid panic amid oil price risk in Middle East crisis

  • An anodising process at Birmingham factory Firmin &amp; Son.

    Business live
    Biggest drop in UK manufacturing confidence since March 2020; eurozone inflation hits three-year low – as it happened

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