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Who would pay for Rachel Reeves’s increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions? Well yes, in the first instance it is the companies...
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If young people are to save more for their future there is a powerful incentive: find a way of allowing them to stop renting and buy their own home....
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If you believe the stock market, it looks very much as though Kamala Harris will indeed be the next president of the United States. Market movements...
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Inflation is now down to the two per cent target for two months running. That is lower than the US or the eurozone. Yet the markets think there is, at...
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Will the Royal Mail still be “royal” if it is owned by a Czech billionaire? That’s not to attack Daniel Křetínský, whose company,...
The rumbling trade war between the US, China and the EU took a new twist this week. It emerged that if China were to invade Taiwan, which...
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Bank of England is going to cut interest rates in the coming weeks, but the timing and scale of these will depend as much on...
The UK faces two grave social and economic challenges, and the proposed reforms to the social welfare system aim to tackle both. One is the rise in...
Tesla’s woes have deepened. It is still the world’s most valuable car company, and the shares have recovered from their lows on Monday, but it has...
Inflation is coming down, with the Consumer Price Index at 3.2 per cent, and that’s good. It will come down further this summer, probably to the...
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It is hard to feel too sorry for Elon Musk. A few days ago he was ranked as No 2 in the global rich list published by Forbes magazine, just behind...
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The British Isa will not of itself move huge amounts more cash into UK equities. The numbers are too small, for the extra £5,000 a year savers can...
It is not going to be so tough being a millennial after all. In the latest annual wealth report from the estate agency Knight Frank to be published...
Keir Starmer has committed Labour to keeping the triple lock on the state pension. That’s the agreement, introduced by the coalition government in...
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Artificial intelligence is the hot subject in Davos this week. The companies that pay for the annual World Economic Forum shindig in the Swiss Alps...
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The euro is 25 years old. Although the notes and coins did not come for another three years, the currencies of the 12 European countries that switched...
This year has been a pretty miserable one for many people for obvious reasons, but it has been a quite humiliating one for the economists. It is not...
Food prices in the UK seem to be easing off at last, with the Office for National Statistics recording that bread and cakes were among the items that...
The world is past the peak of interest rates this cycle and the question now is how fast they will come down. The most important of all the central...
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