Economics
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Protests thwart plans to hold around 25,000 auctions as banks struggle to sell properties to settle shortfalls
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Heather Stewart is joined by Larry Elliott, Jonathan Freedland, Rowena Mason and Torsten Bell to discuss Philip Hammond’s first budget. We hear from Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds and Tory Ed Vaizey. Plus: Henry McDonald in Belfast on the deadlock in Northern Ireland power-sharing talks
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Forget national insurance rates, the IFS and Resolution Foundation focus on the real story: 15 years without a pay rise, a decade of lost growth
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Editorial: There’s a new mood in the United States and a turbulent world will have to start focusing on monetary policy again
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Thinktank’s post-budget analysis says average wages will be no higher in 2022 than in 2007 with weak pay growth exacerbated by looming welfare cuts
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Demand from European fraud watchdog underlines challenges facing Theresa May as she heads to summit on Thursday
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Forecaster revises prediction for UK economy in 2017, but says growth will slow next year as inflation hits spending
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Guardian Money editor Patrick Collinson runs through some of the main items in Philip Hammond’s first budget
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Live coverage, reaction and analysis to the chancellor’s first, and final, spring budget
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Leading thinktank says UK will grow faster than thought in 2017 but calls on chancellor to help support jobs amid warning over inflation and house prices
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Sharp fall in pound since EU referendum feeds into big rise in food prices with butter up 15%, fish up 8% and tea up more than 6%
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Analysts suggest rising inflation is starting to rattle consumers as pre-Christmas boom comes to an abrupt halt and even once-buoyant car sales slip back
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As the chancellor prepares to slash the state he claims there’s no cash. Yet he’s preparing to give billions away to the rich
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Letter: Gordon Brown’s reckless decision in his last budget as chancellor was to reduce the income tax rate from 22% to 20%
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‘No spending spree’ warning from Philip Hammond, who is likely to guard against economic damage of UK leaving EU
US interest rate rise almost certain after bumper jobs growth