Economy
Le Pen’s far-right National Rally election gains
World
Jordan Bardella, President of the National Rally (Rassemblement National), a French nationalist and right-wing populist party, speaks to over 5,000 supporters at ...
How the Bank of England could hand Starmer a £11bn windfall
Business
While this eased strain across financial markets and paved the way for lower borrowing costs, the programme’s consequences are now being felt ...
Morrisons announces plan to open 400 new stores by 2025
Business
Morrisons has announced plans to open 400 more convenience stores across the UK as part of its wider expansion goals. This comes ...
Big banks slammed for being ‘subsidised by taxpayer’ and failing to pass interest rate hikes
Business
Big banks are being slammed for being “subsidised by the taxpayer” and failing to pass on higher interest rates to savings and ...
How the City was strangled by red tape
Business
Ultimately someone will have to pay for all of the extra hours of work this leads to. “The reality is that the ...
UK inflation, May 2024
Business
Shoppers on the high street in the Kingston district of London, U.K. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.K. inflation fell to ...
the town on the front lines of left-behind Britain
U.K.
Grimsby’s experience offers lessons for how the next government can better help other towns with shrinking or stagnating populations. “As a local ...
How Gordon Brown could tempt Labour into a stealth ‘mortgage tax’
Business
Paul Tucker, a former deputy governor of the Bank, argued in an influential 2022 paper that the scale of the payments caused ...
European Central Bank heads for first rate cut since 2019: Live updates
Business
Sun, Jun 2 2024 7:29 PM EDT CNBC Pro: Profits of these 5 global banks will stay high despite an ECB rate ...
A fiscal storm is coming but nobody is battening down the hatches
Business
It’s one thing for the US, a dominant and dynamic economy, to max out the credit card, but quite another for almost ...