Dissatisfaction with life in UK unchanged since Covid, official data shows
Average life satisfaction still below pre-pandemic peak despite improving economic outlook, reports ONS
Boss of World Economic Forum quits after links to Epstein revealed
Børge Brende admitted dining with the convicted sex offender on three occasions between 2018 and 2019
World Economic Forum CEO quits after Epstein links examined; Ineos Quattro earnings fall – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Tell us: how are your finances looking ahead of the spring forecast?
We want to hear how people across the UK are managing their money as Rachel Reeves prepares to set out the latest economic outlook
Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs
Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely
Wednesday briefing: Is the tide turning against Trump on tariffs?
In today’s newsletter: With the latest supreme court ruling exposing the president’s tariff plans as unlawful, US politicians and the American people have found them to be unworkable. Where does Trump go from here?
The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a nostalgia that misreads a changed world
Editorial: The US president fights 1970s battles in a financialised age. America faces not a payments crisis but a slow erosion of industrial and technological power
Young bearing the brunt of UK tax and wage changes, says BoE economist
Huw Pill warns combined effect of national insurance and minimum wage rises have ‘acute’ effect on youth employment
Donald Trump’s new 10% global tariff comes into effect
US president had said he would raise levy to 15% after last week’s supreme court ruling
‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets
Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack
Trump’s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion
Economies such as the UK, India, Japan and the EU raced to hammer out agreements, but the blanket rate has left them wondering where they stand
Trump threatens ‘more powerful and obnoxious’ tariffs, amid confusion in UK and EU; Wall Street drops – as it happened
Markets slide after EU halts ratification of US trade deal, as businesses prepare for new 15% global tariff to start tomorrow
‘Progressive membership’: Ukraine’s economic resilience shows future for EU business tie-ups
Joint ventures on defence, green energy and telecoms suggest how country could join bloc in stages rather than wait for full status
If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?
Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?
UK job vacancies ‘fall to lowest level since pandemic’
Advertised roles dropped 3% last month to 695,000 – first dip below 700,000 since January 2021, job site Adzuna says