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As the Lunar New Year approaches, luxury brands are returning to the Chinese zodiac despite uneven demand and subdued consumer sentiment in Asia.With the Year of…

A group of the world’s top economists – including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz – have called for Sri Lanka’s debt payments to be suspended…

The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has opened the door to bosses to influence Labour’s changes to workers’ rights, amid boardroom fears over jobs and growth.In a…

UK bond markets took fright on Friday after it emerged that Rachel Reeves had ditched plans for a manifesto-busting increase in income tax at this month’s…

Anthony Albanese has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Donald Trump to develop critical minerals projects in Australia that will never be commercially viable.When it’s laid out…

October 14, 20254 min readEconomics Nobel Honors Work Linking Scientific Research to ProsperityJoel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work…

Britain’s employment market has shown signs of stabilising after a sharp rise in job losses earlier this year blamed on tax rises introduced by Rachel Reeves.As…

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific…

Two American academics were among the three winners of this year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. They were given the…

Three experts in the power of technology to drive economic growth have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics.Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University secured half…