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Economics

28 July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves paves way for cuts and tax rises to fill shortfall left by Tories

  • Emma Beddington

    We were promised a 15-hour working week. What’s the hold-up?

    Emma Beddington
  • Shoppers with umbrellas walking along a street lined with stores

    Observer business agenda
    Bank of England set to rain on hopes of interest rate cut after economic bounce

  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    Fear of a Truss repeat should not deter Reeves from rewriting spending rules

    Richard Partington

  • Tories ‘deliberately covered up’ true state of public finances, says minister

  • The Observer view: sticking to fiscal rule will imperil Labour’s future

27 July 2024

  • the Treasury buildings in Whitehall.

    How bad are Britain’s finances? Key questions and answers on the state of the economy

    Several factors restrict the Labour government’s room for manoeuvre in its agenda for growth, writes Phillip Inman
  • Super yachts moored in Saint-Tropez, with helicopter

    Taxing the rich could solve many problems. Why is it so difficult in the UK?

    Phillip Inman
    Making billionaires pay their fair share into state coffers would allow Starmer’s government to effect real change, but soaking the rich is a hard sell for voters
  • Keir Starmer meets apprentices from Airbus at the Farnborough international airshow on Monday

    Buying British: can Labour’s defence policy really help UK industry?

    Questions over whether plan to spend billions on weapons will work as a tool to spur economic growth

26 July 2024

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves

    Millions of UK public sector workers set for above-inflation pay rise

  • She looks at him but he looks down at the ground

    Eight charts that lay bare Labour’s spending inheritance from Tories

25 July 2024

  • An employee stocks shelves with fresh peppers

    US economic growth ramps up, growing 2.8% in latest quarter

    Even as Joe Biden touts ‘strongest economy in the world’, nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe US is in recession
  • 24-carat gold bars at the US West Point Mint facility in West Point, New York

    Project Syndicate economists
    Why have US shares, gold and the dollar been soaring?

    Jeffrey Frankel
    The emergence of artificial intelligence has pushed the tech sector to all-time highs, but other assets have risen, too
  • Woman passes estate agent's window

    Lloyds predicts drop in defaults on loans and mortgages as UK economy improves

    Bank sets aside just £44m for bad debts and defaults in second quarter amid upbeat outlook

24 July 2024

  • A woman wearing a backpack looks at advertisements in an estate agent window

    Soaring UK mortgage rates have pushed 320,000 adults into poverty, thinktank says

    Institute for Fiscal Studies report says interests rate rises have inflicted differing levels of hardship
  • The electric arc furnace at the Celsa steelworks: sparks fly out as liquid steel is poured in a dramatically-lit image showing the molten steel and sparks and illuminated heavy machinery against a dark blue and black background

    UK business activity expands in ‘encouraging start to second half of year’

    S&P Global flash composite purchasing managers’ index shows July rise for manufacturing and services sectors
  • RUSSIA-POLITICS-ARMS<br>In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country's main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RAMIL SITDIKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Russia is lying about its economic strength: sanctions are working – and we need more

    Eight European finance ministers
    The signs are clear: everything is not as rosy in Putin’s Soviet-style war economy as Moscow would have us believe, write eight EU finance ministers

23 July 2024

  • US Home-Price Appreciation Accelerates For Fourth Month<br>A "For Sale" sign in Sacramento, California, US, on Monday, July 3, 2023. The Mortgage Bankers Association is scheduled to release mortgage applications figures on July 6. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    US home sales fell more than expected in June amid record-high prices

    Sales dropped 5.4% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.89m units, the lowest level since December
  • Spotify has reported strong second quarter results.

    Business live
    Spotify shares surge 15% after profitability hits record high – as it happened

    The Swedish streaming company said gross margins hit a record high of 29.2% in the second quarter, after cost cuts and growth in subscriptions
  • A nurse giving a patient a diabetes test.

    Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity

    With extended life expectancy Britain has wound up an increasingly sick nation – and experts say that this is as bad for GDP as it is for our health
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