Mehreen Khan

It sounds like political suicide but raising income taxes would send a better signal than the frozen thresholds that have hit close to a million workers

The would-be PM will try to sell the city’s success story of tight state control with private sector collaboration to the whole country

Despite the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire, the market is still focused on long-term recovery of supply through the Strait of Hormuz

Trump’s Middle East war has not, yet, been a catastrophe for the world. The relatively contained oil price has been down to China’s reduction of imports

Sarah Breeden, deputy governor, warns that autonomous trading tools may require ‘kill switches’ to prevent market shocks

Analysis by the lobby group Invest in Britain suggests support for schools, housing and green energy will deliver the best return

The price of brent crude has fallen 40 per cent from peaks in April as traders back purported progress on a US–Iran peace deal

The addition of 57,000 jobs was barely half of Wall Street expectations in the weakest set of figures since the war on Iran began

Kevin Warsh, boss of the US Federal Reserve, has declared the death of ‘forward guidance’ and the ability of financial elites to shape economic outcomes

Fiscal watchdog says the policy will add billions to public spending, forcing state pension costs to almost double as a share of the economy by the 2070s