Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said: “In the UK, fruit and vegetable prices increased due to the hot, dry weather, reducing harvest yields,” while prices of meat “have been impacted by ...

Keeping inflation in check will become harder as trade tensions and other “structural shifts” make the world more volatile, the European Central Bank has warned, as it vowed it would fight high price ...

Donald Trump’s “breathtaking fiscal policy excess” and attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence risk diminishing the ...

The US’s headline personal consumption expenditures inflation index for May rose at an annual rate of 2.3 per cent, in line with consensus expectations and slightly above April’s 2.2 per cent rise. On ...

Donald Trump resumed his criticism of the US Federal Reserve chair for not cutting interest rates faster by describing him as ...

Treasuries are just so darn attractive to hold and easy to use for a wide variety of purposes that the US government can actually borrow more cheaply than even the genuine risk-free rate. A few years ...

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Can anything stop the US economy?’ Robert Armstrong Inflation, high interest rates, an AI bubble, bad sentiment, tariffs, a lousy housing ...

Trump’s budget will have two dramatic impacts — one political, the other economic. The first is the damage to Trump’s blue-collar Maga brand. “BBB” — Republicans’ slavish adoption of Trump’s nickname ...

Economic data: Releases include the final estimate of US first-quarter growth, advanced goods trade balance and core personal ...

Knot: That depends on the relative weight of the factors. In the short run, trade tensions create significant uncertainty, which weighs on investment and consumption. It’s a negative demand shock that ...

The Bank of England is sticking to its policy of removing monetary policy restrictiveness in a “careful and gradual” series of rate reductions, which has amounted to one quarter point cut every three ...

The Iranian regime is facing its gravest threat in years. It’s been weakened by sanctions, bombed by both Israel and the US, ...