“Given the still-elevated unemployment rate and the cooler wage readings, the latest labour market data still leaves the Bank of Canada in a position to cut rates,” Mendes said. He expects the Bank of ...

Mr Miller, for example, has said that mass removals would create jobs for Americans and increase wages. Whether that proves ...

There is almost a risk of a paradox: that any acts of spending restraint visible and significant enough to calm the markets ...

One economist says December’s employment figures were positive, breaking the trend of job gains lagging population growth.

Rachel Reeves downplayed the prospect of further tax rises after last year’s record-breaking £40bn Budget, calling it a “once ...

Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in the ...

History will not be as kind to Donald Trump if he gets Greenland from Denmark under duress. On January 7th the ...

The UK will return to growth this year but the upturn will not be strong enough to spare the Labour government from raising ...

Labour will be forced to launch further tax raids before the next election due to weak growth during its government, leading ...

Bond yields are more settled this morning, having come down a touch last night after peaking early on Thursday, with the ...

Oxford Economics is predicting that interest rates will fall to 2.5% by late 2027, a much bigger drop than the 3.75% market ...

BRITAIN was having a grim 1970s flashback last night with a debt crisis, the threat of strikes and an under-siege Labour ...