Japan's Japan 30km/h speed limit for residential streets came into force on 1 September 2026, halving the previous 60km/h default on roughly 870,000km of narrow urban roads and covering around
Japan bond market pressure is no longer a distant signal from a faraway economy: it is a working model of the trap that Andy Burnham's government is walking into, and
30-year gilt yields hit their highest level since early 1998 on Tuesday, raising the prospect that Chancellor John Healey's fiscal headroom could be nearly halved before he has delivered a
The London Stock Exchange exodus has passed $110bn in deal value this year, as three further companies agreed to leave public markets on Tuesday in transactions spanning industrial heat treatment,
The UK gilt yield highest since June 2008 is not a statistic that arrives in isolation: it lands on the same morning that Brent crude pushes past $91 a barrel,
UK shop price inflation hit its highest level in two years in August, with in-store prices rising 1.5% year on year, up from 0.9% in July, according to the British
The Bailey AI market correction warning, delivered to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors ahead of their meeting on 15–16 October 2025, is blunter than the diplomatic language of
The BT copper recycling windfall has grown from a useful sideline into something that looks very much like a strategic asset: the telecoms group is now on track to extract
The Canada tariff talks collapse has done something that months of trade brinkmanship could not: forced a public reckoning with who, precisely, is running America's trade policy. The answer, it
The effort to stop Turkmenistan methane mega-leaks has reached its first concrete milestone, with eight confirmed repairs to corroded pipes, faulty wells and failing flares across some of the country's
The US-Canada trade war has moved well beyond a diplomatic spat and is now reshaping the economies of both countries, with Ontario bearing the sharpest domestic pain and swing states
Rare earth supply chains have moved from a chronic geopolitical irritant to an acute strategic emergency, and Europe's response still looks dangerously slow. China controls roughly 70% of global rare-earth
A public-record API spares a product team from gathering data separately across hundreds of government sites. Still, reaching an endpoint does not mean the data behind it suits the intended
A phoenix firm liquidation that has put creditors back at square one is drawing fresh scrutiny to the practice of deferred-consideration buybacks, after PGGBR Ltd, the company formed to absorb
The reported Allianz AA takeover bid, pitched at around £5 billion, would hand Germany's largest insurer control of a business that has quietly rebuilt its finances since a leveraged buyout