Helia Ebrahimi is the Economics Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Channel 4 News' Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi reports on the big changes in the economy and the public finances - and how they'll influence the world you live in.
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The Treasury under the Conservatives may have broken the law by failing to disclose a multi-billion pound overspend at the time of the last budget, according to the head of the OBR, Richard Hughes.
With the cost of Government borrowing rising, our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi explains more.
What impact will the budget have on you and your income? Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has been going through all the details.
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.
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 government has announced more than £60 billion of investment creating 38,000 jobs at its investment summit.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may need to raise up to £25 billion a year from higher taxes – to avoid a return to austerity.
Does the government’s announcement of these extra billions suggest the upcoming budget is set to be less doom-laden than the Treasury has been suggested?
The answer to a lot of the big questions being asked here is “wait for the budget”, but there are signs that the Government is gearing up to increase investment in infrastructure, things like roads, equipment and buildings, which is sometimes called capital spending.
As expected, the Bank of England has held interest rates at five percent, after cutting them from 5 and a quarter percent last month. The Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey said the rate could come down “gradually over time” if inflation stays low.
Higher pay deals – like those we’ve just been hearing about – have been driven by the cost of living crisis of the last 2 years.
New figures show the economy flatlined in July, recording no growth at all for the second month in a row.