UK consumer confidence fell sharply in January to the lowest level in more than a year as a spike in government borrowing costs and warnings of job cuts took a toll on economic sentiment.

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President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep ...

Quotient Therapeutics, a biotech company founded in 2022, hopes to take this transatlantic model and commercialise it. Its main research lab is in Great Chesterford, a village just outside Cambridge, ...

Britain also wants the EU to renew its approval of British data-protection standards, which will expire in June this year. And in 2027 an agreement not to impose 10% tariffs on electric vehicles ...

The overhaul, announced in July by the Financial Conduct Authority, Britain’s financial watchdog, brings the rules in line with New York’s, but will take time to bear fruit. Mr Fine would like to see ...

These changes make this an opportune moment for Sir Keir Starmer to re-engage with the EU. Next weekend the prime minister will attend his first informal summit with other European leaders in Brussels ...

Watch live as Donald Trump addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, 23 January, days after he was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States.

The boss of Saba Capital, an American hedge fund, was railing at fund managers in Britain’s venerable investment-trust ...

Airbnb has hit out at the new Spanish restrictions, claiming that they will have severe consequences for income and jobs.

That left Rachel Reeves, Britain’s chancellor, with an uphill task when she arrived at the Swiss alpine town to court ...

Britain is likely to face more frequent technical recessions after a slowdown in the economy’s speed limit made it vulnerable ...