Rachel Reeves vowed to make growth her number one mission. She unveiled a controversial plan to expand Heathrow airport as part of this.

They tend to do the weekly food shop so notice rising prices sooner, it showed. A lack of understanding of monetary policy and lower financial confidence also dented women's trust in the Bank.

In a Friday speech, Federal Reserve Board member Michelle Bowman said regulation and supervision should be aimed at expanding banking access, not limiting it.

ING is looking for three further cuts later this year, but a shaky jobs market and the prospect of lower services inflation risks pushing the BoE into more aggressive moves. Click to read.

Nick Leeson went from being a symbol of everything that is wrong with financial markets to investigating the kind of misconduct he became famous for.