The UK economy is showing signs of strain as it enters 2026, with momentum fading instead of building. Rather than a post-budget rebound, recent signals suggest households and businesses are becoming more defensive, raising doubts about how quickly growth can re-accelerate in the months ahead.

President Donald Trump has stepped up his public calls for interest rate cuts, using the latest U.S. inflation data as ammunition.

In Iran, the rial is increasingly treated less like a currency and more like a temporary placeholder. People use it to transact, but not to save, plan, or measure value. That behavioral shift explains more about the current crisis than the exchange rate itself.

One of the most closely watched inflation reports in the world is now out. The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key measure of how fast prices are rising across the economy, was released today and is likely to influence Federal Reserve policy decisions and market sentiment in the weeks ahead.

The foreign exchange market may appear calm on the surface, but beneath that quiet start lies a week packed with data capable of reshaping rate expectations on both sides of the Atlantic.

The standoff between Washington and Tehran is intensifying as mass protests inside Iran enter their third week, pushing the country into its most serious political and economic crisis in years.

The U.S. economy is heading into a very different kind of expansion phase, and economists at Goldman Sachs Group believe it may be stronger - and stranger - than many expect.

Beijing is recalibrating its economic playbook for the year ahead, placing security and resilience on equal footing with growth as global trade becomes more fragmented and politically charged.

The U.S. Treasury is preparing for multiple legal outcomes as the Supreme Court weighs a challenge to President Donald Trump’s emergency trade tariffs, with officials stressing that the government has enough financial flexibility to manage refunds if required.

The White House is laying the legal groundwork to control how Venezuelan oil money is handled long before it reaches global markets, signaling that energy revenues will be treated as a strategic instrument rather than ordinary state income.

The United States is seeing one of the fastest improvements in its trade balance in more than a decade, driven by a rare combination of falling imports and surging exports.