Economy

Confidence in the UK is at an all-time low so is now the time to snap up cheap UK stocks?

House prices jumped 13.6% in the last year, according to official data.

UK inflation creeps back to its 40-year high from the summer, driven by rising food costs

After dismantling most of the mini-Budget in a series of U-turns, Jeremy Hunt will reveal the rest of his “medium-term fiscal plan” on Halloween. We l…

The new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has torn up Liz Truss’s flagship mini-Budget policies. Here’s everything you need to know.

Jeremy Hunt has reversed the cut to dividend tax announced in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget – we explain what it means for investors.

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US inflation fell by 0.1% but remains higher than expected due to the rising cost of food, shelter and medical care.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN index has slid by 30% this year – but there is plenty of potential in Vietnamese stocks.

Kwasi Kwarteng, who studied 17th-century currency policy for his doctoral thesis, has always had a keen interest in economic crises. Now he is in one …

The Tories’ “plan for growth” has got off to a bad start, but their reforms can still transform Britain

The Halifax House Price Index shows house prices fell in September. Is the dip a sign of things to come?

The government’s £400 energy grant is a discount applied to domestic energy bills in England, Scotland and Wales, with similar support for those in No…

The new chancellor has scrapped plans to reform the IR35 tax rule for contractors and freelancers.

LDI – an investment strategy used by defined-benefit pension funds – was at the centre of last week’s panic in gilts. What exactly happened, and how w…

With a slowing property market, Covid lockdowns sapping growth and the CSI 300 stock index down by 22% this year, China’s economy is in trouble.

Outdoor-equipment retailer Yvon Chouinard is the latest in a line of rich benefactors to shun personal aggrandisement in favour of worthy causes.

The pound has recovered after Kwasi Kwarteng U-turned on abolishing the top rate of income tax. Saloni Sardana explains what's going on..

In a special bonus mini-podcast, Merryn talks to John Mills, founder of consumer goods distributor JML, chair of Vote Leave and one of the Labour Part…

Kwasi Kwarteng has U-turned on his top tax rate reduction announced in his mini-Budget at the end of September.

A sudden crisis for pension funds exposed to rapidly rising bond yields meant the Bank of England had to act. Cris Sholto Heaton looks at the lessons …

The government has launched the biggest dash for growth in 50 years, relaunching an approach known as supply-side economics. What is the plan – and wi…

The age of cheap money, overpriced equities and negative interest rates is over. The great bond bull market is over. All this means you will be losin…

Most analyses of the chancellor’s mini-Budget speech have failed to grasp its purpose and significance, says Max King