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Up to £464m ‘moved through more than 3,000 UK high street shell companies’

Research shows firms are branded as beauty and convenience but apparently operate in money-laundering and terrorist financing sectors

Up to £464m has “moved through” more than 3,000 UK.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


Iran vows to retaliate against countries that cooperate with fresh US sanctions

Test of US rhetoric will rest on whether nations such as India, China and Russia view economic threats as credible

Iran has vowed to retaliate against any country that cooperates with the.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

The US is scooping up treasury bonds in an effort to raise their price and push yields down – but it’s not working

The bond market is driving the Trump administration crazy. Last week,.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


UK graduate job vacancies plunge to lowest in a decade

Just 8,383 jobs for people leaving university were advertised in July, says recruitment website Adzuna

Graduate job vacancies in the UK have sunk to their lowest level since they started.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


New Fed chair faces critical test at Jackson Hole as inflation fears mount

Investors will hope Kevin Warsh offers ‘comfort blanket’ at annual meeting of central banks amid bond market anxiety

The new US Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, faces a critical test.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


UK productivity growing faster than official figures suggest, thinktank finds

Resolution Foundation suggests economy may finally be emerging from shadow of 2008 financial crisis

Productivity in the UK – a vital measure of economic health – is growing more.. - source: The Guardian - 24.08.2026


The lesson from Canada’s collapsed trade talks with the US: negotiation may be futile

Breakdown shows Washington now prioritises its own interests over any semblance of shared economic ground

‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade.. - source: The Guardian - 23.08.2026


‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports

New quotas to protect UK firms and jobs appear to be having opposite effect in products such as galvanised steel

At Tata Steel’s factory in Llanwern, south Wales, production lines that.. - source: The Guardian - 23.08.2026


‘Starve the beast’? The $40tn cost of Republicans’ false promises to cut spending

The enormous US debt under Trump will hobble the next Democratic administration – just as the GOP planned

You could pin the US’s staggering $40tn in government debt to Donald Trump’s.. - source: The Guardian - 20.08.2026


Democrats and Republican outraged over $40tn national debt – US politics live

Deficit has doubled over the past decade with spending growing under Trump and Biden

US gross national debt tops $40tn for first time

Sign up for the US Breaking News.. - source: The Guardian - 20.08.2026


Sales of trainers dive as cost of living pressures hit JD Sports performance

Inflation deterring shoppers from spending, especially in the US, says sportswear fashion chain

Sports fashion retailer JD has slashed its profit forecasts as cost-of-living pressures,.. - source: The Guardian - 20.08.2026


Can Andy Burnham tame the power of the Treasury to boost growth?

PM wants to reduce department’s stranglehold on public purse and bring long-term thinking to economic policy

Andy Burnham is far from the first prime minister to dream of taming the power.. - source: The Guardian - 19.08.2026


US treasury doubles debt buyback to steady bond market amid inflation fears

Yields, at recent highs this week, dropped after treasury’s vow to ‘provide greater liquidity support’ to bond market

The US treasury is doubling its buyback of government debt in an.. - source: The Guardian - 19.08.2026


Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?

A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its.. - source: The Guardian - 19.08.2026


UK pay growth slows as Iran war prompts cost of living squeeze

Unemployment rate remained at 4.9% in the three months to the end of June, ONS figures show

Wage growth in the UK slowed in June as workers come under pressure from a renewed cost of living.. - source: The Guardian - 18.08.2026


Oil prices rise as US-Iran ceasefire ends; UK wage growth slows amid cost of living squeeze – business live

Brent crude climbs above $91 a barrel

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Oil prices have.. - source: The Guardian - 18.08.2026


Top economists urge Burnham to sign UK up to UN initiative on global inequality

Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

Forty prominent progressive academics are urging Andy Burnham’s.. - source: The Guardian - 18.08.2026


China’s economy showing signs that slowdown may be extending

Industrial output and retail sales slump in July after one of the country’s weakest quarterly growth rates ever

China’s economy is showing signs of extending a slowdown with a slump in.. - source: The Guardian - 17.08.2026


Leading economies’ borrowing costs hit highest since 2008 crisis

Concern over impact of Iran war pushes up government bond yields in US, UK, France, Germany and Japan

Government borrowing costs in several advanced economies hit their highest level since.. - source: The Guardian - 17.08.2026


Summer jobs bounce back in UK thanks to busy calendar of sport and music

Industry tracker finds ‘exceptionally warm weather’ has helped boost job listings in hospitality and tourism sector

The summer job has staged a comeback this year thanks to the hot.. - source: The Guardian - 17.08.2026


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