Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
They’re all well-known names in the high street. But firms, including the likes of Pizza Express, Wagamama and All Bar One, say they face a serious threat of having to cut jobs and close branches because of a radical revaluation of business rates.
A plumber has won a legal battle to claim employment rights for self-employed workers, in a case which could have implications across the so-called “gig economy”.
Never before has a US president challenged the integrity of a federal judge: yet this is Donald Trump, and the old rules no longer apply. The object of his fury? An appeals court in San Francisco.
This afternoon the U.S. State Department said it would allow people with valid visas into the United States in order to comply with a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle barring President Donald Trump’s executive action. That Trump executive order had temporarily halted the travellers entering the US from seven majority-Muslim countries in the…
It’s not just the President causing controversy. Today his top trade adviser accused Germany of using a “grossly undervalued” euro to gain economic advantage over the United States.
Two former bankers from the embattled bank HBOS have been found guilty in a £245 million fraud trial, alongside four other people.
Tesco says it will create the UK’s leading food business after buying the wholesaler Booker in a £3.7 billion deal.
Consumer spending kept UK growth higher than expected at the end of last year – so has the predicted Brexit slowdown been proved wrong, or just delayed?
The US Department of Justice is going after all the banks involved in mis-selling sub-prime and RBS is the last (and biggest offender) on its list. So today – in anticipation of that mega fine – RBS has set aside another £3.1 billion – bringing the total allocated for sub-prime to £6.7 billion.
Around £8bn has been wiped off the value of shares in British Telecom after the company revealed an accounting scandal in its Italian division was more serious than first thought.
Theresa May has launched the Government’s new industrial strategy, holding her first cabinet meeting outside Westminster.
For the second time in a week, the prime minister has thrown down the gauntlet – this time to business executives attending the world economic forum in Davos.
Theresa May’s Brexit speech saw a surge in the pound as the markets, which had been preparing for a hard Brexit, responded to the removal of uncertainties and the promise of a parliamentary vote.
Two more major carmakers are being investigated over diesel emissions tests, as the Department of Transport said it was urgently seeking more details.
Now some encouraging news for retailers at last: as new figures show there’s been a boost in Christmas sales for some of the biggest names on the high street.