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Economics

17 September 2024

  • Lorries queuing for the Port of Dover in Kent.

    Business live
    Brexit deal ‘stifling’ UK-EU trade; markets rally ahead of interest rate decisions – as it happened

  • Robert Peston with arms folded holding a pair of sunglasses in a sky blue suit in London on 3/9/24

    ‘It’s an astonishingly fragile time’: Robert Peston on inequality, identity politics and how to heal Britain

  • Female doctor checking blood pressure of male patient

    Tackling UK ill health is vital to economic growth, says IPPR

  • a woman looks at options at a food bank

    Women in UK ‘will be worse off than in 2010 unless public spending rises’

16 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer, left, and Giorgia Meloni behind lecterns and in front of the UK and Italian flags

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer ‘very interested’ in Italy’s plan to offshore asylum applications in Albania, says Meloni – as it happened

    UK to contribute £4m to Italian project on irregular migration, PM announces
  • Stacks of gold bars are arranged on storage shelvesin the Bank of England’s underground Gold Vaults in London.

    A golden solution to tackling poverty in Britain

    Letter: Alan Ereira suggests using the increase in value of Britain’s gold reserves to boost welfare payments to its poorest people
  • The Titanic building and Harland and Wolff cranes in Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Business live
    Government urged to help as shipmaker Harland & Wolff prepares to enter administration – as it happened

    Steps are now being taken to reduce headcount at Harland & Wolff, as board concludes the company is insolvent

15 September 2024

  • British Airways aircraft at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, London

    Jet fuel tax could raise £6bn a year in the UK, says thinktank

  • £20 niotes stuffed into a blue piggy bank

    Automatically enrol young staff into workplace pension schemes, says IFS

  • Keir Starmer delivers a speech in London.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s economics: relax those fiscal rules

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    One more item on Labour’s long to-do list: repair the UK aid budget

    Larry Elliott

  • Observer business agenda
    The Federal Reserve is about to cut rates … but by how much?

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Tory ‘economic competence’ led Britain to Black Wednesday. Never forget

    William Keegan

  • Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism

13 September 2024

  • International Aerospace Machinists union members marching toward the union's hall before voting to strike.

    Business live
    Boeing shares fall as factory workers begin strike; UK interest rates to fall to 3% next year, predicts Goldman – as it happened

    “We are ready to get back to the table to reach a new agreement,” Boeing pledges, as walkout over pay deal begins
  • Marina Hyde

    It’s another British multimillionaire’s solemn farewell tour – how ever will we cope?

    Marina Hyde
    Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins has had it up to here with the UK’s taxes, and he is determined to make sure every one of us knows it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • The Kremlin in Moscow

    IMF plan to visit Russia to assess economy prompts dismay across Europe

    Protest letter sent to fund’s head over move to send staff to Moscow for first review since invasion of Ukraine

12 September 2024

  • Christine Lagarde

    ECB cuts interest rate to 3.5% and warns of weak eurozone growth

    European Central Bank makes 0.25-point cut as expected after eurozone inflation fell to 2.2% in August
  • An Elizabeth Line train in London

    Business live
    Teenager arrested over Transport for London cyber attack; ECB cuts interest rates – as it happened

    A 17-year-old male was detained last week on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences in relation to the attack launched on TfL on 1 September.
  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves standing near St Paul's Cathedral

    Can UK avoid national debt almost tripling over next 50 years?

    OBR report is not all doom and gloom, but preventing debt rising to 274% of GDP would require tough action
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