Jasper Jolly

6 days ago | msn.com | Jasper Jolly

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1 week ago | msn.com | Jasper Jolly

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1 week ago | msn.com | Jasper Jolly

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jasper Jolly

The government has taken control of British Steel, so averting the closure within days of the UK’s last two blast furnaces. However, the takeover leaves a big question: what next? Steep losses at British Steel prompted its Chinese owner, Jingye, to decide last month to close its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, thus ending the production of “virgin” steel in the UK. The government stepped in with emergency legislation, passed in a single day last Saturday, to prevent that from happening.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jasper Jolly |Tom Ambrose |Joanna Walters

Donald Trump early on Thursday the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, for not lowering US interest rates and expressed a wish for him to be gone from his role. The US president lambasted Powell as “always too late and wrong” in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump noted that the European Central Bank (ECB) was poised on Thursday to lower interest rates again, without mentioning that the body has been responding to the chaos caused by Trump’s initiatives on tariffs.