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3 February 2025

  • US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday after arriving on Marine One. Follow for live news updates.

    Business live
    Trump tariffs live: stock markets roiled by global trade war fears as Canada, Mexico and China retaliate

    European and US futures slump as Trump says EU tariffs will ‘definitely happen’; stocks and cryptocurrencies tumble in Asian trading hours
  • Empty shelves remain with signs ''Buy Canadian Instead'' after the top five US liquor brands were removed from sale at a British Columbia liquor store in Vancouver.

    Asian stock markets tumble in response to Trump tariffs

    European futures also down more than 3% after Trump indicates tariffs will ‘definitely happen’ in EU countries
  • bottles of Smirnoff vodka

    How fortunes turned flat at Johnnie Walker and Guinness owner Diageo

    With crucial results looming, investors fear 25 years of dividend growth may stall this week as drinks firm battles major headwinds

2 February 2025

  • Workers on a strike picket line in Wigan in 2013.

    Most zero-hours workers ‘with same employer for more than a year’

  • Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, sit and talk at Chequers on Sunday.

    Keir Starmer to discuss European defence with all 27 EU leaders

  • New York yellow cabs pass a large electronic Nasdaq sign

    Trump tariffs: markets brace for falls as Mexico and Canada hit back

  • Economic growth forecast in London, UK - 27 Jan 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Tramontan/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (15121833e) A general view of the Bank of England in the City of London. The brokerage firm Morgan Stanley has forecast a below 1% economic growth for the UK even though the Bank of England as forecast a 1.5% for the same period. Economic growth forecast in London, UK - 27 Jan 2025

    How Donald Trump’s trade tariffs could affect the UK

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on Trump’s tariffs – cartoon

  • Economics viewpoint
    Trump’s tariffs could have grim knock-on effects for UK’s economy

    Heather Stewart

  • Cap on-the-day British intercity rail fares, campaigners urge

  • Barclays says IT glitch that locked customers out of accounts is fixed

  • Observer business agenda
    Pressure rises on Bank of England and the Fed as the interest rate debate gets political

  • US egg prices expected to climb further as farmers strained by bird flu outbreak

  • Collectibles are taking over the toy box – but now the grown-ups are playing too

  • Heathrow expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Does Labour really think Trump is a better bet than the EU?

    William Keegan

  • Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

  • Can we build it? No – because Britain may not have enough workers

  • Avanti West Coast passengers face severe disruption as rail strikes resume

1 February 2025

  • Gas pump with prices beyond it

    US gas prices likely to go up with Trump tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil

    Tariffs on imports mean higher costs for finishing fuels, much of which is likely to be passed on to consumers
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