With UK retail price inflation over 7%, there is clear justification for the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee to deliver a second consecutive interest rate hike to 0.50% at its upcoming meeting on February 3. Sadly for the average person, it is more likely to be felt in higher borrowing costs than actually securing anything much above zero ...

  For more than a year, an egalitarian narrative dominated the discussion about US wages. Lower income workers were seeing the biggest pay increases while gains for better-paid employees lagged behind. But the quarterly results posted by banks last week may upend the dialogue. The five biggest American banks boosted compensation by 15% last year, more than twice as much ...

  Bloomberg Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. said it’s investigating Executive Chairman Warren Lichtenstein and accused him of launching a proxy fight in an effort to maintain his board position. An internal probe involving Lichtenstein is being conducted under the oversight of a committee of independent directors, the company said in a statement. The investigation is not related to Aerojet’s operations ...