Saturday, 7 November 2026
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After multiple warnings against the "speculative" and "one-sided" currency moves, Japan's Ministry of Finance appears to have put its money where its mouth is and intervened in the yen during the country's Golden Week h…
The US Federal Reserve is not done fighting high inflation, its chair, Kevin Warsh, said in his first major speech in the role on Friday, emphasizing that it was “the Fed’s job to deliver stable prices”.
It is a great pleasure to discuss Darrell Duffie’s paper “Tokenized finance and the perimeter of central banking” at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.[1]
The UK’s leading farming organisations and animal health experts have called for an urgent ban on imports of Brazilian meat, in light of concerns over the safety of imports.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amending Rule 3a12-8. The change would add European Union debt obligations to the list of foreign government securities exempted for futures marketing and trading.
The head of the US central bank said policymakers will "have work to do" to if they are not confident cost of living pressures are easing for Americans.
UK petrol prices have hit their highest level since 2022, piling more financial pressure on motorists before the bank holiday weekend.
Roadmap for increasing department’s share of GDP will be deferred until next year’s review
Chair Allan Leighton says lower prices and an improved online service are attracting more shoppers
As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C
Sales of beans, lentils and soya bean derivatives on rise while Britons buy less real and fake meat
Problems including derailments have hit network during one of the hottest and driest summers on record
From the first US and Israeli strikes six months ago to the battle for Hormuz, this timeline plots how Trump’s war on Iran quickly became a regional conflict with global economic consequences
Venezuela is closely examining plans to leave OPEC, according to people familiar with the matter, delivering a fresh blow to the oil cartel it helped create more than six decades ago.
Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands
Anthropic argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions of dollars in lost business and reputational harm
Congressman Jamie Raskin asks president’s son to detail firm’s recent success after he joined 1789 Capital as partner
Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - August 27, 2026) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 38 entities alleging that they made material misrepresentations in Forms ADV filed with the Commission between …
New rules are aimed at protecting people in debt in England and Wales and stopping homeowners being ripped off
The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement actions listed below:
The former Barclays boss Jes Staley has denied having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White, after being questioned about an infamous email exchange about Disney princesses with Jeffrey Epstein.
Boston Fed chief Susan Collins characterized the latest U.S. inflation figures as a mixed bag during an interview on Thursday at the central bank's annual Jackson Hole gathering in Wyoming. While the headline number exc…
Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports have been hit by a cyber-attack in which hackers accessed the data of about 8.7 million customers.
The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).