ECONOMY

Food producers are taking up record volumes of warehouse space in the UK, as the industry looks to prevent shortages such as those of fruit and vegetables that left supermarket shelves bare earlier this year. Although their…

Britain’s oil and gas companies are next week expected to be offered the prospect of windfall tax relief, as prime minister Rishi Sunak looks to boost investment and improve the country’s energy security.Ministers have been…

Federal Reserve officials on Friday defended their decision to press ahead with their monetary tightening campaign this week despite ongoing stress across the US banking sector, citing continued concerns about elevated…

UK consumer confidence improved in March on the back of better economic forecasts, but people’s outlook on their own finances worsened, according to data published on Friday. Research group GfK said its index of consumer…

UK parliament bans TikTok from devices Source link

Spy balloons over the American Midwest, warnings from Beijing of a clash if Washington “doesn’t hit the brakes” and intense congressional scrutiny of investment in China — there could hardly be a less auspicious time for US business to…

The US Federal Reserve is on Wednesday set to make a pivotal decision on whether to press ahead with its monetary tightening campaign or pause interest rate rises in the face of the worst banking turmoil since the 2008 financial…

Sri Lanka’s president has called on China and its other creditors to quickly reach a compromise on its debt restructuring or risk creating more economic peril.In his first interview since the IMF approved a $3bn, four-year lending…

The threat of a credit crisis that creates damaging shockwaves across the global financial system has overtaken inflation as investors’ biggest worry in the wake of a spate of US bank collapses.Almost a third of fund managers…

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