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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
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
Interest rate dilemma for central banks as inflation rises but growth slows
The Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England appear unclear on how to tackle inflation amid the Iran war
New UK cost of living crisis looms as rising energy bills lift.. - source: The Guardian - 16.08.2026
From tourism to power generation and productivity, Europe feels economic cost of heatwaves
Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of nuclear plants in France
Across Europe this scorching summer, workers have struggled in the heat as wildfires.. - source: The Guardian - 16.08.2026
New UK cost of living crisis looms with soaring energy bills forecast to lift inflation
Latest reading on Wednesday likely to frame scale of challenge for new PM to ease pressures on households amid Iran war fallout
British households are facing a renewed cost of living.. - source: The Guardian - 16.08.2026