Jaguar Land Rover restart helps UK factories return to growth
S&P Global purchasing managers’ index rises to one-year high amid pick-up in consumer spending
Tax rises and drop in investment predicted to limit UK growth
EY Item Club downgrades forecast for next year, with Office for Budget Responsibility expected to follow suit
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
The president who cried tariffs: will the US supreme court challenge Trump’s trade war?
The US high court will hear arguments on whether Trump’s erratic imposition of global tariffs is legally valid
The London consensus is a timely challenge to Trump’s isolationism
A debate on how to achieve fairer, greener growth could point the way to a successor for neoliberal capitalism
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit
Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free trade
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Talk of ‘small boats’ may dominate politics and the media, but the cost of living crisis is what most adults spend their time worrying about, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
ECB keeps interest rates on hold despite eurozone inflation fears
Key deposit rate kept at 2% even as recovery starts to drive up price growth across bloc
Halloween candy prices rising, spooked by Trump’s tariffs and climate change
Prices to spike by 10.8% this year, with some chocolatey treats seeing upticks of at least 20%, analysis shows
Five key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping
From tariffs to rare earths, Chinese and US presidents ‘make outstanding group of decisions’ at crunch trade talks
Pound sinks against euro and dollar as tax rises loom and growth slows
Prospect of a tough budget is thought to have brought forward the likely date for a cut in interest rates to 3.75%
Fed cuts interest rates for second time this year amid economic uncertainty
Central bank sets rates at range between 3.75% and 4% amid turbulence from government shutdown and Trump’s tariffs
The Guardian view on Argentina’s election: one step closer to becoming a Trumpian client state
Editorial: A $40bn rescue may have helped Javier Milei scrape through midterms, but it leaves Argentina’s democracy and economy more dependent than ever on Washington
The UK bond markets have become a political trap that strangles public spending. But there’s a way out
With living standards falling and the far right on the rise, the chancellor has the power to make decisions, not simply accept diktats from the markets, says lecturer in political economy Sahil Dutta