Economics
China’s disappointing growth slowdown weighs on markets; oil hits new highs – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Graeme Wearden
18, Oct, 2021 @8:33 AM
Bank of England will have to act to curb inflation, says Bailey
Governor signals central bank is preparing to raise interest rates amid surge in energy prices
Guardian staff and agency
18, Oct, 2021 @6:33 AM
Wales launches drive to keep young people in their homeland
Economy minister tells of ‘significant challenge’ of retaining and attracting talent to support country’s economy
Steven Morris
18, Oct, 2021 @5:00 AM
Austerity deaths were foreseeable and foreseen | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to a report revealing the highly predicable consequences of savage public service cuts over many years, and the effects of widening inequality
Letters
17, Oct, 2021 @4:49 PM
The next global economic emergency? Deepening debt in the developing world
Poorer nations were more fragile before Covid-19, had less scope to stimulate economies, and are on the wrong side of the vaccine divide
Larry Elliott
17, Oct, 2021 @9:49 AM
Suez taught us our future lay in Europe. So will Brexit
Britain’s two great self-inflicted crises of the postwar era point to a conclusion that voters may soon rediscover for themselves
William Keegan
17, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
Bill for family days out at some UK attractions ‘almost doubles’
From Carlisle Castle to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, study highlights hefty rises since 2016
Miles Brignall
16, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
How Covid spread fear of globalisation and threatens a new world order
From China backtracking on coal to Britain’s ‘chicken king’ calling for a rethink of food production, the virus has accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarky
Martin Farrer
15, Oct, 2021 @11:39 PM
FTSE 100 hits pandemic high; FCA chair leaving early; insolvencies rise – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Graeme Wearden
15, Oct, 2021 @4:16 PM
Tory austerity caused misery – and now they want to make it worse | Polly Toynbee
Even though the human cost of a cruel policy has been confirmed, expect another turn of the screw next week, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
15, Oct, 2021 @2:16 PM
Sunak expected to confirm end to public sector pay freeze
Exclusive: Unions say if departments are not given funding to raise pay then in effect freeze will remain
Heather Stewart Political editor
15, Oct, 2021 @12:13 PM
Wait and see before hiking interest rates, Bank of England rate-setters say
Catherine Mann and Silvana Tenreyro speak out against early rate rise amid surging gas prices and materials shortage
Phillip Inman
14, Oct, 2021 @4:57 PM
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