Interest rates are one of the things Wall Street cares most about because lower rates can lead to higher prices for stocks ...

The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the ...

The rationale for the bank’s doves may be to frontload cuts — the UK still has some of the highest rates globally — before the rise in inflation makes it prohibitive. This was the market’s ...

The BoE’s forecasts suggest it will only cut rates two more times over the next three years on the back of higher inflation and weaker underlying growth capacity. The 7-to-2 vote to cut rates with a ...

Donald Trump faced a backlash from business groups and some in his own Republican party after kicking off a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on the US’s three largest trading partners.

The left “tail” is the unusually bad one. The global financial crisis was a left-tail event. So was the oil-price collapse in 2016. Put simply: Not good! From GS: ...

The Federal Reserve last week described the US labour market as “solid” and noted that the unemployment rate had stabilised. This week’s monthly jobs report on Friday will put that view to the test.

Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but swift market reversals are keeping them on edge ...

ECB cuts the deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent as expected and offers little shift in tone from December as it continues to move policy away from restrictive territory ...

Party struggles to convince on growth and improving services but risks mimicking the right to communicate ‘change’ ...

Bond markets in the UK may be more sensitive to fiscal credibility following the turbulence after the 2022 Liz Truss budget. But fiscal sustainability in the UK does not significantly differ from some ...