Business

Donald Trump’s victory made the Dollar, Wall Street and the crypto markets – along with his crypto-bro backers – yelp with joy, sending Bitcoin to a record high.

From deregulation to soaring trade tariffs – what impact is Trump’s win likely to have on global financial stability

Latest figures show that rents have been above affordable levels in every one of the last nine years.

Just a few blocks from the White House – some of the leading names in global finance have been gathering at the International Monetary Fund’s Annual Meetings.

We asked the chancellor why changing the fiscal rules mattered.

With barely more than a week to go to the Budget, speculation is reaching fever pitch about what taxes the Chancellor may be planning to increase.

Attention is increasingly focusing on what will be in the Chancellor’s budget in less than two weeks time. And the mood music is negative.

The UK has been struggling through the worst cost of living crisis in 4 decades, so many people will be hoping that today’s figure is the strongest evidence so far that the big squeeze is finally over.

A carbon offset pioneer who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits has been charged with fraud by US authorities following an investigation by Channel 4 News. 

It’s the end of an era for two major industries in the UK today. The country’s last coal-fired power station will shut down tonight, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. 

It’s the end of an era in Port Talbot, South Wales. From Monday, the last blast furnace will shut down at one of the biggest steelworks in the world, leaving it unable to make its own steel.

The long goodbye to blast furnace no. 4 is nearly over, as Port Talbot stands on the precipice of becoming a ‘steel town’ stripped of its ability to make its own ‘virgin’ steel. It is a huge moment.

That means pylons – across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. And the battle lines are  forming. To bury or not to bury, that is the question. Nobody wants to look out on pylons.

Rachel Reeves has been warned that she needs to “substantially increase” government investment to avoid “a vicious circle of stagnation and decline”.

The EU’s highest court has ordered Apple to pay back €13 billion to Ireland in one of the world’s biggest ever corporate tax rulings. It’s an expensive knock in the teeth for the technology giant, at a time when competitors are nipping at its heels. And it raises questions once again about Ireland’s low-tax business economy.