Helena Lindqvist
Helena reports on governments, budgets, tariffs and regulation across the US, UK, EU and Asia-Pacific as they touch economies and investors.
Articles by Helena Lindqvist
Healey's first Budget on 28 October faces a £23.6bn buffer eroded by gilt yields
Chancellor John Healey delivers the Burnham government's first Budget in under two weeks, with Bloomberg Economics estimating the gilt sell-off has cut roughly £12bn from the fiscal headroom he inherited.
Takaichi pledges to cut Japan's food consumption tax to 1% without deficit bonds
Opening a 69-day extraordinary session on 5 October, the prime minister pledged a two-year cut in the levy on food from 8% to 1% from April, paired with cash benefits and funded without new deficit-covering bonds.
Congressional fact sheet maps US tariff regime rebuilt on Sections 232, 301 and 338
A Congressional Research Service report dated 8 October catalogues the active duties that replaced the emergency-powers tariffs struck down in February, including 10% to 100% on patented pharmaceuticals and 50% on select Canadian goods.