Campaigners are pleading with Chancellor Rachel Reeves to axe a policy which will force millions more pensioners to pay ...

Will the Bank of England save the day? It’s an odd question, recent history considered. Threadneedle Street has been playing a long game of catch-up: hiking rates far too late to curb the inflation ...

The Bank of England's chief economist Huw Pill has cautioned against expecting rapid interest rate cuts this year, saying ...

Huw Pill, the Bank's chief economist, said the battle against inflation was not yet 'job done' and that a slowdown in the ...

Half of people aged over the age of 55 are worried that their retirement savings won't last their lifetime, according to a ...

US stocks fell on Friday as investors reacted to the threat of more possible tariffs from the Trump administration while ...

At the end of a week which saw the Bank of England halve its growth forecasts for 2025 and the populist Reform UK party ...

A hundred days on from the Budget, the Bank slashed its prediction for UK growth this year by half, to just 0.75 per cent, ...

The more President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on the US’s trading partners, the more the worry of another inflation wave troubles global economists. Stubborn consumer-price growth was bothering ...

Rachel Reeves has suffered another blow in her bid to boost tepid economic growth after the Bank of England played down the idea of a big interest rate cut later this year. At such a critical moment ...

Slightly weaker US economic data and the potential for political uncertainty to weaken economic growth mean interest rates ...