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Graeme Wearden

Graeme Wearden tracks the latest world business, economic and financial news in our daily liveblog. Previously he worked as a technology journalist at CNET Networks

January 2025

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Minister defends Rachel Reeves’ China trip amid market turmoil – as it happened

  • The Lib Dems said the chancellor should ‘cancel her counterproductive jobs tax’ .

    Business live
    Bond market turmoil eases as Treasury minister says ‘no need’ for government intervention – as it happened

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a video camera

    Pound dips to 14-month low as bond sell-off piles pressure on Rachel Reeves

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves says she has ‘iron grip’ on finances as borrowing costs surge

  • Business live
    UK 10-year borrowing costs hit highest level since 2008, as Rachel Reeves’s fiscal headroom evaporates – as it happened

  • A year of two halves: how global financial markets fared in 2024

December 2024

  • The lobby of the London Stock Exchange.

    Business live
    FTSE 100 rallies by 5.7% in 2024 in ‘a year of resilience’ for the stock market – as it happened

  • A laptop keyboard and MicroStrategy logo displayed on a smartphone.

    ‘Preying on investors’: how software firm MicroStrategy’s big bet on bitcoin went stratospheric

  • A BA jet flies with the London Financial centre in the background

    FTSE records strongest annual gain since 2021 as aviation stocks take off

  • A stock market indicator board in Tokyo, Japan, on the final trading day of 2024

    Business live
    Japan’s Nikkei and Germany’s DAX share indices both post 19% gains in 2024 – as it happened

  • Global markets tipped to keep rising in 2025 despite trade war fears

  • Business live
    More UK retailers in critical financial distress; fashion brand Quiz needs more funding soon – as it happened

  • Business live
    American Airlines flight grounding cancelled; UK’s FTSE 100 rises 0.4% as ‘Santa rally’ begins – as it happened

  • Business live
    UK growth revised down to zero; firms warn economy is heading for ‘worst of all worlds’ – as it happened

  • Business live
    FTSE 100 share index records biggest weekly loss in a year, as US shutdown fears hit markets – as it happened

  • Reeves may have to U-turn over no more tax rises, warn economists

  • Business live
    Bank of England leaves UK interest rates on hold in 6-3 split, knocking pound – as it happened

  • Business live
    Company insolvencies rise across England and Wales; interest rate cuts less likely after UK pay growth accelerates – as it happened

  • Business live
    UK firms slash jobs after budget, but US economy booms; Royal Mail takeover gets government clearance – business live

  • Business live
    Stock market Santa rally underway; South Korean won hits two-year low as martial law declared – as it happened

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