“Given the still-elevated unemployment rate and the cooler wage readings, the latest labour market data still leaves the Bank of Canada in a position to cut rates,” Mendes said. He expects the Bank of ...

Mr Miller, for example, has said that mass removals would create jobs for Americans and increase wages. Whether that proves ...

There is almost a risk of a paradox: that any acts of spending restraint visible and significant enough to calm the markets ...

One economist says December’s employment figures were positive, breaking the trend of job gains lagging population growth.

History will not be as kind to Donald Trump if he gets Greenland from Denmark under duress. On January 7th the ...

Rachel Reeves downplayed the prospect of further tax rises after last year’s record-breaking £40bn Budget, calling it a “once ...

Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in the ...

Labour will be forced to launch further tax raids before the next election due to weak growth during its government, leading ...

Labour’s mass sale of gold at the turn of the millennium could have covered the entirety of the £22billion “black hole” in ...

Oxford Economics is predicting that interest rates will fall to 2.5% by late 2027, a much bigger drop than the 3.75% market ...

Canada added 91,000 jobs in December, shattering economist expectations. The unemployment rate also dropped 0.1 percentage ...

BRITAIN was having a grim 1970s flashback last night with a debt crisis, the threat of strikes and an under-siege Labour ...