Helia Ebrahimi , Economics Correspondent

For those who’ve taken a long career gap – to bring up their children or care for elderly relatives – could ‘returner schemes’ help women go back to senior positions?

The taxi app Uber is reportedly in talks to buy the food delivery app Deliveroo, according to the financial news service Bloomberg.

Theresa May has called for the end of what she said was the “stigma” of social housing. 

Leaving the European Union without a Brexit deal could have “dire consequences” for the British economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Theresa May might be “irritated” by all the speculation over her leadership, but she insisted today she wanted the political debate to focus on the country’s future – rather than her own.

They predicted the global financial meltdown a decade ago, now economists are warning another crash is on the way – putting the world’s economies at risk.

Cynical, repellent, despicable – just some of the words used today by a judge to sum up a share fraud that cost investors millions of pounds.

No deal but plenty of Brexit bonhomie. Europe’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and the Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab emerged from six hours of talks in Brussels suggesting it could be possible to “find an agreement for an orderly withdrawal” in time.

He promised an economic boom, so has President Trump got one? New figures show that US economic growth has just hit its best performance for almost four years. Mr Trump has promised 3% annual growth, along with a $1.2 trillion tax cut package. But according to experts, it might not be that easy, as borrowing levels shoot up and…

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told this programme he’s prepared to scrap Labour’s plan for a hike in corporation tax, if there’s another way to raise the money. Most business leaders assume life under a Corbyn-led government will be high taxation and spending, alongside punitive limits on profits and executive pay. So can Mr McDonnell’s…

The EU has urged all member states and stakeholders to prepare for the doomsday scenario that Britain crashes out of Europe without a Brexit deal. There are all sorts of warnings about what that could mean, from hundreds of thousands of job losses to plummeting investment and huge border delays. We look at what the…

The tech giant Google has been fined a record £3.9 billion by the European Commission for breaching anti-trust rules. It follows an investigation into claims that it made smartphone manufactures pre-install Google’s search engine and Chrome browser on Android devices, exploiting its already dominant market share at the expense of smaller developers. Google has denied…

Amid the on-going chaos of Brexit, the government received some grim projections today about the long-term health of the public finances. The Office for Budget Responsibility said the outlook for the national debt was “unsustainable” and a series of tax rises could be needed to bring it back under control.  Our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi…

They voted for Brexit, but are apparently going to be hardest hit when we leave the EU. New research by the think tank, the IPPR, claims that households in Brexit-voting areas will see the steepest fall in income and an increase in the cost of living. We report from the Shropshire town of Telford, identified…

Britain is set to miss its own targets to cut carbon emissions – according to the official body that monitors government progress on fighting climate change