Finance

‘Austerity’ Osborne bags fortune from £150m bank sale

The former chancellor, who presided over Treasury during the Great Recession, will profit handsomely from the sale of Robey Warshaw to a Wall Street investment bank

Tether’s record quarterly profit shows strength of stablecoins

Tether, the world’s largest issuer of dollar-backed stablecoins, registered a whopping net profit of $4.9bn (£3.7bn) last week

What do tweens really want?

If eight to 12-year-olds were left to their own devices, what would they buy? We gave £30 each to five of them to find out

Unfair trade: banker who took rap for Libor walks free

The case of Tom Hayes, who had his Libor conviction overturned last week, raises serious questions about the justice system

Markets vote for Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell

If Trump tries to fire the head of the Fed, it would add a new level of economic uncertainty for the global economy

My dysfunctional relationship with my financial advisor

Is it anxiety about the state of your finances… Or is it ‘money dysmorphia’?

Your problems: Delta wanted suitcase manufacturer to pay for luggage abuse

The Observer’s consumer champion solves your problems

Will Hutton: 'This unholy alliance between bond markets and forecasters will ruin us'

Does it make any sense to be in thrall to a forecast that will almost certainly be wrong?