Sterling’s flash crash is a warning against a hard Brexit
The government has started to reveal its Brexit plans and investors aren’t happy
The government has started to reveal its Brexit plans and investors aren’t happy
Smith must break with Labour’s past and hold big business to account
Uncertainty in the City as sterling looks set for its biggest daily drop since 2010
Something strange has been happening in stock markets since 2008: they have been going up. Not just up, but absolutely flying. Through the prolonged failed recovery, unemployment, an investment crisis, the Fukushima crisis and the EU debacle, Wall street, still the market all else look to, has doubled in value.
Alex Hern counters Guido Fawke’s spin that stopping Hester’s bonus cost the taxpayer £320 million.
The price of train travel is being pushed up by government trying to wean the industry off subsidies – an outdared policy from the boom times.
A new poll shows the general public are increasingly sceptical about the power of both markets and the state to deliver on their concerns, reports Will Straw.