Pressure rises on Bank of England and the Fed as the interest rate debate gets political

The UK is likely to make a cut this week; Trump has made it very clear he wants his central bank to follow suit

Does Labour really think Trump is a better bet than the EU?

Rachel Reeves is all for growth; her party and the country needs it. But still we hear nothing about the most obvious solution…

Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

The chancellor’s apparent volte-face in backing a third runway has left many in her party disillusioned and led them to label it as an act of desperation

Can we build it? No – because Britain may not have enough workers

Rachel Reeves’ bold infrastructure plans for Heathrow, transport, housing and more rely on training a new generation of construction professionals before the shovels go in the ground

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China: will they spark a trade war?

As the US president imposes import taxes on three key trading partners, we examine potential repercussions

‘People wanted change’: Scranton felt the pinch – but are Trump tariffs the answer?

Voters in Biden’s home town turned to Trump to lower prices, but some are wary of the president’s economic plans

The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay

Editorial: Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen

Give Rachel Reeves’s plan for UK growth a chance

The chancellor’s growth speech was not perfect – but it is a start after decades of underinvestment in Britain

AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – as it happened

Pharmaceutical company says that it will not go ahead with investment at Speke, near Liverpool

Stats chief to face MPs amid concerns UK economic data is ‘virtually unusable’

Head of ONS Prof Sir Ian Diamond summoned days after review of statistics widened

Why Trump tariffs will be ‘very bad for America and for the world’

If enacted tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, and result in US consumers footing the bill

Labour warned tough laws against people smugglers in new bill could penalise asylum seekers – UK politics live

Refugee Council says ‘many refugees themselves could also be prosecuted’ under proposals

European Central Bank cuts interest rates to support growth as eurozone economy stagnates – as it happened

Live coverage of business, economics and financial news as ECB cuts main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points in effort to support European economies

European Central Bank cuts interest rates after eurozone growth stalls

Reduction by quarter of a point to 2.75% aims to stimulate economy, which stagnated in last quarter of 2024

Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind

We used to call this ‘trickle-down economics’, and we learned a long time ago that it is a myth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty