UK politics: Winter fuel allowance cuts could reduce pensioner poverty by raising benefit take-up, says minister – as it happened

Stephen Timms, DWP minister, says cut to winter fuel payments could encourage more pensioners to claim pension credit

Liverpool shows Labour how long-term sickness blights lives and the economy

This year’s party conference is taking place in a city where Covid and austerity have led to high levels of economic inactivity

‘Davos on the Mersey’: key conference takeaways as Labour tries to woo business

As the budget looms, where the party stands on investment in the UK economy, workers’ rights and more

Business leaders raise concerns over flagship Labour investment summit

Scheduling of event two weeks before budget in late October criticised at party conference as ‘wrong way round’

US consumer confidence drops; UK interest rates to fall ‘gradually’; stocks hit record high after China’s stimulus blitz – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Bank of England’s Bailey says he expects interest rates to fall ‘gradually’

Central bank’s governor warns consumers not to expect a return to near-zero rates

EU plant exporters turning backs on UK over post-Brexit border checks, says trade group

Trading relationships at ‘breaking point’ because of delays and costs, garden centres and nurseries warn

China unleashes boldest stimulus in years to boost ailing economy

People’s Bank of China announces support measures including a cut in interest rates but some experts fear they may not be enough

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’ speech: when troubling evidence can’t be wished away

Editorial: The chancellor suggested that she might need to rewrite her fiscal rules. That would be a good thing

Labour conference: Cutting winter fuel payments ‘right decision’, says Reeves, as No 10 says no change to council tax discount for single people – as it happened

Chancellor says £22bn gap in current spending budget and state pension rise meant she had to make decision on means-testing fuel payments

Rachel Reeves sticks to script and saves big changes for next month’s budget

Conference speech was light on detail and not the pivot away from doom and gloom that critics wanted

UK business growth slows as budget uncertainty hits investment plans; German recession ‘baked in’ – as it happened

Fiscal policy uncertainty ahead of the Autumn Budget is biggest fear for companies, survey finds, while Germany’s malaise continues

Budget uncertainty is weighing on UK economy, say businesses

Private sector activity growth slows for second consecutive month, hitting services and manufacturing

Did Trump fail to deliver on this landmark project? The answer could decide the election

Trump predicted ‘the Eighth Wonder of the World’ for Wisconsin but the promised jobs bonanza never came about and Democrats say they are the ones who deliver

Peter Jay, journalist and diplomat, dies aged 87

Tributes paid to one of the UK’s foremost economics commentators who was also ambassador to Washington