Last week, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s administrative self-coup (or autogolpe) — his orders to the executive ...

Honeywell International is to split into three independent businesses, breaking up one of the US’s last big industrial conglomerates just months after activist investor Elliott Management took a stake ...

Donald Trump has said that Gaza would be turned over to the US by Israel at the conclusion of fighting and that no US troops would be needed to maintain stability.

Donald Trump might have shied away from steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but the reprieve was temporary. Whether you believe that tariffs would raise prices or not, why risk it? In Europe, real ...

While the neutral rate is almost certainly lower than 2.75 per cent, the ECB’s current benchmark deposit rate, there is also disagreement about what the exact figure is. It cannot be directly measured ...

Pernod Ricard has cut its sales guidance because of uncertainty over tariffs and a slowdown in China, where government anti-dumping measures have hit demand for its cognac brand Martell.

Trump is more respectful of his two fellow apex predators, China and Russia (a wolf with a high risk-appetite). He placed lower initial tariffs on China than on Mexico and Canada, perhaps because ...

Donald Trump’s weaponisation of uncertainty has been dialled up in his second term. The “will he, won’t he” prevarication over import duties, and other threats, has left companies and investors in a ...

Wall Street banks saddled with debt from Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter sold large chunks of the loan package to investors on Wednesday, allowing a number of lenders to exit one of the toughest ...

Axel Rudakubana’s referral to the UK counterterrorism scheme was closed prematurely, three years before he murdered three ...

FT: What’s your view on a potential trade war between Europe and the US? Rehn: In the current context where there is an ongoing brutal war in Europe, and weak growth, the last thing we need is a new ...

Most sectors in the FTSE 100 were up, boosted by strong corporate earnings. AstraZeneca, the FTSE 100’s most valuable company, rose 4.8 per cent following better than expected results. Shares in ...