With plans for a series of new towns and homebuilding on certain areas of the green belt, Labour is gunning on taking more political ground from Conservatives by focusing on policies aimed at tackling the UK’s housing shortage.
After investment losses tore through the US financial system this year, a fresh slump in bank stocks shows some investors fear the problem — which at its most extreme claimed a handful of lenders — hasn’t gone away.
Russia’s current-account surplus unexpectedly rebounded in the third quarter to $16.6 billion as the central bank reported improving foreign trade including in energy sales.
Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said he hasn’t ruled out running for president in 2024, noting that the vast majority of Americans want an alternative to President Joe Biden or GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expects a grain corridor to Romania via Moldova to become operational soon, as he called for action to prevent Russia from turning the Black Sea and Danube region into a “dead zone” for navigation.
US consumers expect slightly higher inflation over the next few years and their views on current and future credit conditions deteriorated in September, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey.
Boeing Co. said it delivered 27 commercial jets in September, marking the third consecutive month that shipments have declined as manufacturing glitches put its annual target in jeopardy.
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones called the current geopolitical environment the “most threatening and challenging” he’s ever seen in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel over the weekend and predicted the US will enter into a recession early next year.
Keir Starmer promised a decade of national renewal after 13 years of Conservative government, urging his Labour Party to be “disciplined” and “ready to fight back” against Rishi Sunak’s Tories ahead of a general election expected next year.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen showed little willingness to embrace reforms at the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other developing countries significantly more say in how the world’s go-to emergency lender is run.
