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Hopes for consecutive interest rate cuts by the Bank of England over the next two months have been dampened by the UK government’s recent...

There’s fear in some quarters of another Donald Trump presidency but will the economics be that bad? Not a single vote has been counted...

Navantia, the Spanish shipbuilder, is racing to finalise a takeover of the stricken shipyard-owner that built the Titanic amid urgent talks to reshape a...

The joint owner of Chelsea Football Club has joined forces with one of his fellow board members to bid for the most valuable team...

One of the world’s largest investment firms has waded into the fight over the future of Thames Water, the water utility which is racing...

The business secretary will next week hold talks with dozens of private sector bosses as the government contends with a significant corporate backlash to...

The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing...

First things first: don’t panic. What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s...

The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a...

The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has said. Household...

A decision on whether to proceed with the controversial sale of The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, will be made by Christmas, its...

The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest level since comparable records...

The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic...

Are you richer or poorer? Use our budget calculator to see how you have been affected by Labour’s first budget in more than 14...

More tax, more borrowing, more spending. This was a big budget by every measure, but will loom largest for businesses that will bear the...

The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: Follow live budget updates • The budget will raise...

Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the...

The Labour manifesto never did add up. On the one hand, Keir Starmer vowed there would be “no return to austerity” under his government,...