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Bank of England’s announcement triggers further uproar in financial markets as pound slips again

A number of MPs have called for the May 1 bank holiday to be pushed back until Monday May 8

Australian shares have ended the session flat after a volatile trade on Wednesday, with gains in financials outweighing losses in mining and energy stocks, while caution prevailed ahead of key US inflation data due later in the week.

Index-linked gilts join list of things Bank is prepared to buy as dreaded phrase ‘material risk to financial stability’ returns

For the third time in a fortnight, the Bank of England has bought government bonds to calm financial markets

New Bank of England emergency bond-buying intervention in mini-Budget fallout

Senior Tories warned the Chancellor of further turmoil if he does not get the support of MPs for his fiscal measures.

Scott Dixon details his first-time buy journey and how he turned the £6,000 deposit for his first home - a £60,000 one-bed split level house in the Isle of Man - into a profit of £129,000

Duncan Weldon’s excellent book, Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through, an economic history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution up to the pandemic, almost had a different title: “I wouldn’t start from here”, based on the old joke about the tourist asking for directions.