Economy

Betfred brothers top list of UK’s biggest taxpayers with £400m bill

Harry Styles is highest-contributing celebrity and Erling Haaland the youngest entry in Sunday Times tax list

Here are the 7 big things we're focused on in the stock market this week

By week's end, more than half of the S&P 500's companies will have reported earnings.

Political risk: How Trump 2.0 is affecting investment in U.S. assets

Political risk: How Trump 2.0 is affecting investment in U.S. assets

Earnings playbook: Amazon and Alphabet headline the busiest week of the reporting period

Investors need to get ready for a deluge of corporate results this week.

OPEC+ agrees to keep oil output unchanged as Iran tensions boost prices

The meeting of eight OPEC+ members comes as Brent crude closed near $70 a barrel on Friday, close to the six-month high of $71.89 reached on Thursday.

How the EV pullback is affecting factories and jobs in the South

Automakers, suppliers and battery makers were funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into EV-related manufacturing in the U.S. Now it's all in question.

A data center moratorium would undermine America’s future

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) recent call for a nationwide moratorium on data center construction may be framed as a pause for democracy’s sake, but in practice it would lead to very different consequences as a federally mandated halt on infrastructure and economic progress would weaken American innovation, undercut local decision-making, kill construction jobs and hand a strategic advantage to our global competitors.

Europe seeks to reduce reliance on US for energy

The European Union is growing concerned with its increased reliance on the United States for energy resources such as natural gas, as the Trump administration seeks to expand its influence in the Western Hemisphere and acquire Greenland.

India's finance minister projects modest fiscal consolidation in budget

Nirmala Sitharaman sees small improvements in fiscal deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio

‘Scotland is an exciting place to do business’

Two lifelong friends and whisky fanatics have brought innovation to Scotland’s thriving food and drink scene with the UK’s first vertical distillery

Bitcoin dips below $78,000 as market digests silver sell-off, Trump's Fed chair pick

Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged following wide swings in the commodities market.

Here is what caused the wild swings in our 34-stock portfolio last week

The S&P 500 closed lower Friday after briefly topping 7,000 for the first time ever Wednesday.