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Cabinet ministers have been told they will not be able to use the Treasury reserve to fund public sector pay rises and cannot access it unless…

Keir Starmer has attempted to wrest back control of economic policy from the Treasury by bolstering his No 10 team, bringing in the chancellor’s deputy and…

Rachel Reeves should levy a new bank tax and urge the Bank of England to halt bond sales to reduce the government’s £22bn-a-year losses from quantitative…

Donald Trump said he would “shortly” announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors and possibly his nominee for Fed…

Elon Musk should focus on running his companies and keep himself out of politics, Donald Trump’s treasury secretary said on Sunday, a day after the world’s…

It’s been a rough few days for Elon Musk, who appeared at his Oval Office send-off with a black eye he said his son gave him,…

Covid inquiryBoris Johnson’s government blocked a request to fund another 10,000 hospital beds at the height of the Covid pandemic, the chief executive of NHS England…

BBCThe Treasury has announced the sale of its final shares in the NatWest Group. It means the bank will be under full private ownership, almost two…

The US retail giant Walmart will “eat some of the tariffs” in line with Donald Trump’s demands, the president’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent insisted on Sunday,…