Good morning. Donald Trump signals he’ll hold off against Iran for now. Denmark says talks with the US over Greenland end with a \ Listen to the day’s top stories . Donald Trump signaled he may pause action against Iran for now after being told protest killings had stopped . Brent futures and silver slumped after his comments eased geopolitical risks . The UN Security Council will meet today to di...
Good morning. Donald Trump signals he’ll hold off against Iran for now. Denmark says talks with the US over Greenland end with a \ Listen to the day’s top stories . Donald Trump signaled he may pause action against Iran for now after being told protest killings had stopped . Brent futures and silver slumped after his comments eased geopolitical risks . The UN Security Council will meet today to discuss Iran, AFP reported. Meanwhile, Iran temporarily closed airspace around its capital Tehran. Denmark said talks with the US over Greenland ended with a “ fundamental disagreement ,” even as Europe moves to bolster security on the island. “We will, however, continue to talk,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said. Germany will send a 13-member military assessment team to Greenland this week to explore possible security contributions alongside other European nations. Denmark doesn’t have the capacity to develop Greenland , said Carla Sands, former US ambassador to Denmark. Trump said he has no plans to fire US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite an ongoing Justice Department probe, though he is weighing potential successors , according to Reuters. Fed officials including Neel Kashkari, Austan Goolsbee and John Williams defended central bank independence amid DOJ subpoenas. “The escalation over the course of the past year is really about monetary policy,” Kashkari said in an interview with the New York Times. UK estate agents turned more optimistic in December as easing borrowing costs and budget clarity lifted housing sentiment. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said its gauge of expected home sales surged to 22, up from minus 4 the month before and the highest since October 2024. Optimism for the year ahead also became more widespread. Read more on what might 2026 hold for UK house prices . Corporate update: US federal immigration officers targeted a construction site in rural Louisiana where Meta Platforms is building its largest data center, lea...
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Michael Brown, senior research strategist at Pepperstone , says: This morning, we receive the latest GDP figures from here in the UK, with the economy set to have grown just 0.1% MoM in November, largely resulting from the continued resumption of JLR production as the recovery from last year’s cyber attack continues. Such an anaemic pace o...
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Michael Brown, senior research strategist at Pepperstone , says: This morning, we receive the latest GDP figures from here in the UK, with the economy set to have grown just 0.1% MoM in November, largely resulting from the continued resumption of JLR production as the recovery from last year’s cyber attack continues. Such an anaemic pace of growth, though, is hardly a ringing endorsement of the UK’s economic prospects, not least considering that risks to the outlook remain tilted firmly to the downside, and that the fiscal ‘doom loop’ seems set to continue, with the government’s latest U-turns eroding as much as two-thirds of the headroom that Chancellor Reeves left herself at the November Budget. Continue reading...
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Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? It feels as if this really is the start of a new era for the Thursday news quiz. Not only was there last week’s announcement that Willow had retired from her role as the official dog of the Guardian Thursday news quiz, but this week we have a new visual tone, courtesy of a set of lovely, whim...
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? It feels as if this really is the start of a new era for the Thursday news quiz. Not only was there last week’s announcement that Willow had retired from her role as the official dog of the Guardian Thursday news quiz, but this week we have a new visual tone, courtesy of a set of lovely, whimsical illustrations by Anaïs Mims . Rest assured, not much else has changed. It is still 15 questions on topical news, pop culture and general knowledge, and it is still packed every week with the same hackneyed old in-jokes. There are no prizes, but tell us how you got on in the comments. Allons-y! The Thursday news quiz, No 230 Continue reading...