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Economics

17 February 2025

  • A Eurofighter Typhoon at BAE Systems, Warton Aerodrome, in Lancashire.

    Business live
    European defence stocks rise by €18bn to record high ahead of Ukraine peace talks – as it happened

    Shares in BAE Systems, Rheinmetall and Saab soar, as Keir Starmer offers to put British ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
  • a person holds a sign that reads 'resist'

    ‘It comes from racism’: immigrant workers on Trump’s deportation push

    The president’s actions have sent a wave of terror through the community that underpins much of the US economy

    • UK marketplace sellers face ‘second Brexit’ hit from Trump’s US import rules

    • Reeves warned UK inflation will push public sector unions to seek higher pay rises

    • Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz

16 February 2025

  • A boarded-up pub on a London street corner

    UK firms mull biggest layoffs in a decade as business confidence slumps

  • Michele Bullock

    The RBA is expected to cut rates on Tuesday. Will Australia enter a new economic era, and what happens if it doesn’t?

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse

    Heather Stewart
  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    Trump has left a void that the EU and Britain must fill together

    William Keegan

15 February 2025

  • Rachel Reeves talks to two women, all three of them in high-viz vests and helmets

    Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis and all are unthinkable

  • Aerial view of a town covered in snow on a sunny day

    Observer business agenda
    Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter

  • President Trump Signs An Executive Order - DC, Washington - 10 Feb 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pool/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (15144822aq) US President Donald Trump displays an executive order as Howard Lutnick, chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald LP and US commerce secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, watches in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Trump plans to impose 25% tariffs on all US imports of steel and aluminum, broadening his trade restrictions to some of the countrys top trading partners and seeking to protect domestic industries that helped him win battleground states last year. via Getty Images President Trump Signs An Executive Order - DC, Washington - 10 Feb 2025

    Why is Trump behaving like a bully over tariffs? Because he can

    Gene Marks
  • Chocolate shavings being added to cups of coffee

    Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

14 February 2025

  • Melanie Brusseler

    Trump thinks antagonising China will help save the US economy. He couldn’t be more wrong

    Melanie Brusseler
  • blue cranes at the Port of Liverpool's Seaforth dock

    Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump’s global trade war

13 February 2025

  • Donald Trump signing a document in the White House's Oval Office

    UK government to ‘wait and see’ in the face of Trump tariffs announcement

    The US president announced what he called ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on all other countries on Thursday
  • Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, speaks about her plans for the economy.

    The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’

    Editorial: Despite growth in 2024, living standards fell. Inequality, weak public investment and government cuts threaten prosperity. Labour must offer voters something different

    • Business live
      UK returns to growth but living standards fall; oil price weakens on Ukraine peace talk hopes – as it happened

    • UK economy grows by 0.1% in unexpected boost for Rachel Reeves

    • Donald Trump sees his trade war as a show of strength. In fact, it’s the opposite

      Larry Elliott
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