Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including February’s UK GDP report

Some analysts expect a lame-duck president for rest of five-year term after opposition Democratic party forecast to take 170 seats in 300-seat legislature

President Javier Milei of Argentina has kicked off a visit to the United States, where he'll meet with tech billionaire Elon Musk, as the libertarian leader seeks an infusion of cash to overhaul Argentina’s embattled economy

 

President says the new debt relief programmes will be good for the US economy

The West’s enemies are working more closely as an “alliance of authoritarian powers” including Russia, Iran and China, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned. Mr Stoltenberg has described growing links between the three countries and North Kore ...

There are calls to break up the supermarkets, but divestiture powers could be more useful in other sectors of the economy

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Singapore reportedly paid the singer £2.4m a show to host her Eras tour, causing dismay in Thailand and the Philippines

Maria Bartiromo speculates as to whether employers are ‘pricing in ... the idea that maybe we’re gonna get a new president in November’ to explain booming employment growth

Biden calls report ‘a milestone in America’s comeback’

Two teenage boys star in Matteo Garrone’s passionate exposé of how greed, trauma and corruption drive the modern-day slave trade in would-be migrants

Despite India’s economy being one of the fastest growing in the world, rates of unemployment and the quality of the jobs on offer remain a huge concern for millions. Namita Singh reports

Sir Keir Starmer’s party accuses Conservatives of risking a crash in the childcare system ‘just like (they) crashed the economy’

Crew starts intricate removal work on Francis Scott Key Bridge as officials stress that health of US national economy depends on it

Greater fall per head and latest trade data illustrate longer term decline of economy

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as water company says it will not receive £500m injection from shareholders

The new figures follow a period of no growth between July and September 2023, according to the ONS

PM to face questions on strategic thinking in government, economy and public services, and global issues from Commons Liaison committee