ECONOMY

Leaders from Germany, France, the UK and Italy are expected to take the US president to task over controversial tariffs at the upcoming G7 summit.

With less professionals looking to the UK for career opportunities and as the labour market tightens, recruiters and businesses need to keep innovate.

Fears are growing that Brexit will trigger a competitive race to the bottom which will leave the British worker worse off.

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich's latest visa woes highlight the need for a code of ethics to make investment migration more transparent.

Britain's chronic language skills gap will damage its ability to trade.

What Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding can teach us about the economics of partying

Royal wedding fever is gripping the nation and tens of thousands of tourists are heading to London to join the party.

Is the growing backlash against free trade a threat to international policies that protect the environment?

The financial press failed to play its watchdog role and was handicapped by entrenched views and group-think, argues a new book

Donald Trump is fragmenting the world trade order making the hoped-for favourable trade deals post-Brexit a far more difficult prospect.

Over half of the Commonwealth's 2.3bn citizens are Indians.

Has the the time come for growth-focused investors to hand on the baton to their counterparts in the value camp?

In the last decade, over 28,000 stores have closed, and footfall has been on a relentless downward trend.

The Nationwide UK house price index for February reveals a slowdown after January's data sparked hopes of a bounce in the property market.

Theresa May will set out details of the government's landmark review of higher education funding in England, and may announce reduced tuition fees.

A new report claims that the US is wasting billions of dollars upgrading nuclear bombs based in Europe that are no longer an effective deterrent and could be a security liability.

A new report has called on the government to give £10,000 to everyone under 55 years of age as part of a move towards a national universal basic income (UBI).

Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show young middle earners are struggling to get on the property ladder.

Boris Johnson said it would be "intolerable and undemocratic" for Brussels to impose its laws on Britain after Brexit.

Data from the EU statistics office shows that the economy of the 28-member EU grew by 2.5% in 2017, its best performance since it grew 2.7% in 2007.

The European Union is set to vote in favour of imposing a ban on palm oil imports from Malaysia, which could spark a tit-for-tat retort.

British farmers counting the cost of 4,300 unfilled vacancies and vegetables rotting in the fields as Brexit worries bite.

BoE Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent calms frayed nerves following a volatile week on the stock markets.

Prime minister will not commit to excluding lucrative NHS contracts from hands of US corporations. Vince Cable urges "absolute guarantee" of protection.

Multi-million-pound firms are, like Uber and Deliveroo, are offloading business risk onto some of the poorest people in Britain.

Cross-party committee warns government has failed to reprioritise its work and might not be ready by March next year.

Leaked Whitehall study shows the European Union could impose 37 directives on Britain for a two-year period.

US President Donald Trump has tweeted that any congressional immigration plan that does not include funding for his border wall is "a total waste of time".

Too many students plunging into debts of £50,000 just to receive "paltry" salaries, according to chairman of Education Select Committee.