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Economics

March 2026

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    Trump’s Iran strikes accelerate the world’s drift from dollar dominance

    Heather Stewart
    Aggression feeds a sense that the US is operating outside global norms and helps to fuel a more complex currency outlook
  • Pensive woman looking out of a cafe window

    Dissatisfaction with life in UK unchanged since Covid, official data shows

    Average life satisfaction still below pre-pandemic peak despite improving economic outlook, reports ONS
  • row of houses

    Average long-term mortgage rate falls below 6% in time for spring home-buying season

    Benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, the lowest level since September 2022
  • Børge Brende

    Boss of World Economic Forum quits after links to Epstein revealed

    Børge Brende admitted dining with the convicted sex offender on three occasions between 2018 and 2019
    • Business live
      World Economic Forum CEO quits after Epstein links examined; Ineos Quattro earnings fall – as it happened

    • Tell us: how are your finances looking ahead of the spring forecast?

    • Reworked
      Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs

  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing held at the White House February 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled against Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement international trade tariffs, a central portion of the administration’s core economic policy. Also pictured on stage (L-R) Solicitor General John Sauer and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Is the tide turning against Trump on tariffs?

    In today’s newsletter: With the latest supreme court ruling exposing the president’s tariff plans as unlawful, US politicians and the American people have found them to be unworkable. Where does Trump go from here?
    Newsletter
  • President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

    The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a nostalgia that misreads a changed world

  • Young people face a bleak jobs market.

    Young bearing the brunt of UK tax and wage changes, says BoE economist

  • A U.S. flag files at the Port of Long Beach, California

    Donald Trump’s new 10% global tariff comes into effect

  • The Manhattan skyline silhouetted

    ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

  • Donald Trump gesturing while speaking

    Trump’s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion

  • Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

    Business live
    Trump threatens ‘more powerful and obnoxious’ tariffs, amid confusion in UK and EU; Wall Street drops – as it happened

  • Drones at the production facility of Quantum Frontline Industries, a joint venture between Germany’s Quantum Systems and Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics

    ‘Progressive membership’: Ukraine’s economic resilience shows future for EU business tie-ups

  • illustration of fruit still life with some replaced by computer code

    If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?

  • A staff wanted sign in Cumbria

    UK job vacancies ‘fall to lowest level since pandemic’

  • Keir Starmer visiting a railway depot in Cardiff last week.

    Labour must take drastic action to regain its standing

  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump shaking hands

    US will not back out of its tariff deals with UK and others, says Trump trade representative

  • Graeme Wearden

    Economics viewpoint
    Trump’s trade war risks undermining his hopes of hefty US interest rate cuts

    Graeme Wearden
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