Welcome to the Money blog. Mortgage deals for people with small deposits have hit a five-year high - read more in this week's ...

Why the British army is so unprepared to send troops to Ukraine. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Britain is “ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our ...

A flurry of often contradictory UK economic data and surveys this week has left the Bank of England none the wiser about ...

British retail sales rose in January for the first time since August and by much more than expected, according to official ...

We expect the February PMIs to show roughly unchanged manufacturing PMI at 46.8 while activity is expected to have continued ...

U.K. consumers were slightly less gloomy this month about expectations for their personal finances, although the outlook for ...

Africa’s digital trade and trade in services landscape has witnessed significant growth in recent years. Indeed, digital ...

Our global growth forecasts for 2025–26 have been lifted slightly in the February update, although this masks some ...

DONALD Trump sparked uproar yesterday after branding Ukraine’s hero wartime leader “a dictator without elections”. The US ...

With rising global tensions, pressure on UK defence spending, and manufacturers ramping up production, the question isn’t ...

The rate of UK inflation rose by more than expected in January to 3%, up from 2.5% in December. Analysts had been expecting a ...

Inflation has risen further above the Bank of England’s two per cent target in a blow to Rachel Reeves, official figures have shown. In the 12 months to January 2025, the consumer prices index (CPI) ...