Heather Stewart

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  Could an independent Scotland keep the pound?

  29 Jan 2014: Q&A: Mark Carney is visiting Scotland to discuss the implications of Scottish independence for monetary policy. How would it work?

• Global economy: hopes and fears for 2014

  29 Dec 2013:

  Will the coming year be one of tax cuts, pay rises and good cheer, or will the legacy of the financial crisis still haunt us? And what of China, Japan, the eurozone … Observer writers try to predict the economic shape of the next 12 months

• Ten things I hated about business in 2013

  22 Dec 2013: Heather Stewart: clapped-out metaphors, management mumbo-jumbo, benefits misinformation and other things that should be consigned to the dustbin of history

• Interest rate rise with no wage increase 'will push heavily-indebted to edge'

  20 Dec 2013: Bank of England warns of homeowners hit hard by rate rise, as housing market picks up with 30% rise in mortgage approvals

• China's central bank acts to avert short-term credit crunch

  19 Dec 2013: People's Bank of China announces emergency injection of liquidity after interbank lending rates shoot up

• City issues interest rates warning as unemployment falls to 7.4%

  19 Dec 2013:

  David Cameron claims drop in jobless rate to four-and-a-half-year low shows that coalition's economic plan is working

• Bank of England switches to plastic pound notes with Churchill fiver

  18 Dec 2013: Introduction of polymer £5 note in 2016 and Jane Austen £10 note in 2017 will end 320 years of paper money

• Network Rail to be 'government body', adding £30bn to UK national debt

  17 Dec 2013: ONS says state's role overseeing company through rail regulator means Network Rail should be considered a public body

• London accounts for more than 25% of all mortgage loans

  17 Dec 2013: Wandsworth leads the table as new figures break down loans to postcode level

• Bailout exit does not mark end of Ireland's financial crisis, says Noonan

  13 Dec 2013: As Ireland prepares to become the first country to exit eurozone bailout, there are still several reasons why its finance minister Michael Noonan thinks the crisis is not over just yet

• Eurozone bailouts: which countries remain?

  13 Dec 2013: Ireland will exit its bailout on Sunday – but Greece, Portugal and Cyprus remain in their programmes and Spain's banks are still being propped up

• Strong construction performance could see UK GDP growth revised upwards

  13 Dec 2013: Revised ONS construction data could see third-quarter economic growth estimate raised to 0.9% next week

• Bank of England committee member attacks Carney's flagship policy

  12 Dec 2013: Martin Weale says impact of forward guidance may be 'negligible' despite recent signs of economic recovery

• Youth unemployment could prolong eurozone crisis, Christine Lagarde says

  10 Dec 2013: IMF chief warns against prematurely declaring an end to the economic crisis, saying joblessness puts future growth at stake

• What good's a job-rich recovery if the workers stay poor?

  8 Dec 2013:

  Heather Stewart: George Osborne's answer to the weakness of British wages is to deny that the problem exists

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