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Economics

11 September 2024

  • Shoppers in the produce section at a Walmart Superstore in Secaucus, New Jersey.

    Business live
    US inflation cools to 2.5%, its lowest since February 2021 – as it happened

    UK government’s £500m taxpayer-backed deal for steelworks secures long-term future of Port Talbot but unable to secure guarantees to save 2,500 jobs
  • Commuters in silhouette cross London Bridge with umbrellas up, near the City of London's skyscrapers

    UK economy unexpectedly flatlines for second month in row

    Pre-election slowdown continues in July despite economists predicting growth of 0.2%

    • US inflation softens to lowest level since February 2021 as Fed prepares to cut interest rates

    • Sunak ‘should apologise for £22bn black hole’, says Starmer during PMQs – video

    • Why did Starmer cut the winter fuel allowance? It’s called Treasury brain – and that spells trouble

      Rafael Behr

10 September 2024

  • a Job Centre Plus

    ‘People’s futures on the line’ amid surge in youth unemployment, unions warn

    Statistics show 16 to 24-year-olds out of work at highest level since pandemic, a rise of almost 50% in two years
  • An oil well in Santa Cruz del Norte, Havana.

    Business live
    Brent crude tumbles below $70 per barrel as oversupply fears hit oil price – as it happened

    Brent crude has hit its lowest level since December 2021

    • What is the state pension triple-lock rise and what does it mean?

    • UK wages figures will affect state pension, interest rates – and Rachel Reeves

    • UK state pension could rise by about £460 a year from April, wage growth figures suggest

9 September 2024

  • People with umbrellas walk in the rain on the Millennium Bridge in London

    UK debt must be steered off unsustainable course, warns Lords committee

  • Trades Union Congress leaflets are displayed on the first day of the annual conference in Brighton on 8 September 2024.

    The Guardian view on Keynesian naivety: workers must be able to bargain for a fair share

  • Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presenting his report on EU competitiveness today

    Business live
    Mario Draghi warns EU at risk without €800bn a year investment boost; Germany ‘facing three-quarters-long recession’– as it happened

  • Mario Draghi and Ursula von der Leyen standing alongside each other and smiling at a press call in Brussels; she is holding a copy of the report

    EU ‘needs €800bn-a-year spending boost to avert agonising decline’

8 September 2024

  • A cyclist rides past a ‘Now Hiring’ sign

    The confidence question
    Can US economic statistics really affect the presidential election?

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Oasis fans are angry but dynamic pricing benefits consumers too

    Larry Elliott

7 September 2024

  • Paul Nowak

    More than a million British workers not having a single day of paid time off, says TUC

  • Hospital operating theatre

    Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise. But will Rachel Reeves fund a transformation?

  • Torsten Bell

    Blame modern decisions, not just ancient history, for economic inequality

    Torsten Bell
  • Rachel Reeves stands with Mark Carney and another man in a wood-panelled room

    Labour’s first job shouldn’t be to spend, but to fix the state’s financial plumbing

    Phillip Inman
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