Economics
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CBI survey shows employers plan to keep hiring staff but will limit pay rises because of the new national living wage and apprenticeship levy
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Bank admits wrongdoing, an unusual move in such cases, for charges of failing to disclose conflicts of interest when promoting investments to wealthy clients
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Kiev’s rejection of payment proposal could hinder Ukrainian efforts to restructure country’s growing debt with international creditors
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Latest ONS survey covers 2012-14 and highlights gulf between country’s richest and poorest groups
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Analysis The Federal Reserve has raised rates too soon
David BlanchflowerThere is a 50/50 probability that this hike will have to be reversed and the worry is that this might mean rates going negative
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Historically low interest rates over the past seven years have fueled tech investments, but now investors may be spending their money more cautiously
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Number-crunching of UK product sales shows seasonal items including Christmas decorations, poultry and winter knits are losing appeal
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Markets rally in Asia and Europe, the dollar strengthens, and commodities fall, after the first US interest rate hike in almost a decade
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Christine Lagarde accused of negligence over €400m payout to businessman Bernard Tapie, who supported Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 presidential race
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Economics blog Retail sales surge poses interest rates dilemma for Bank of England
Phillip Inman Economics correspondent
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Businesses and consumers will pay heavy price if UK forced to trade by WTO rules and not free trade agreement, says Lord Rose
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All eyes on Janet Yellen as she announces during the first hike in American borrowing costs in almost a decade, at 2pm East Coast time (7pm GMT)
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Interested parties form queue after bank’s £1.5bn attempt to form separate entity and float on stock market stalls
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Editorial: In an uncertain post-crash economy, the Federal Reserve seeks comfort in old maps which led it to hike borrowing costs. But for the uncharted waters of 2015, it is steering the wrong way
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Analysis Why hasn't pay kept pace with rising employment?
Larry Elliott Economics editor
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Editorial: 2015 has been the year of the pay rise – in 2016 we may not be so lucky
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Topics
- US economy
- Federal Reserve
- Janet Yellen
- US Interest rates
- Interest rates
- Inflation
- Stock markets
- Global economy
- US economic growth and recession
- Pay
- Retail industry
- Banking
- Europe
- Family finances
- George Osborne
- Work & careers
- Consumer spending
- UK unemployment and employment statistics
- Banks and building societies
- Government borrowing
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