In a special six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the economic events reshaping the world in ...

Rachel Reeves has promised that the government will reinstate winter fuel payments to some pensioners later this year, performing its U-turn faster than had been expected.

Moscow has a small number of soldiers in Transnistria, which has been controlled by separatists in a frozen conflict for 33 ...

The principles underpinning what the Trump administration calls ‘western civilisation’ differ on either side of the Atlantic ...

According to the prospectus, the mooted fund would “invest” 80-95 per cent of its assets in Pengu, which, apparently, is the “official token of the Pudgy Penguin project”. A further 5-15 per cent will ...

Highway repairs mean traffic is diverted through a leafy Republican-supporting tract before arriving at the town in Monroe County, a Democratic speck on the map, roughly equidistant from Philadelphia ...

Toyota Industries’ shares fall 12% as minority investors feel ‘absolutely screwed’ by lower than expected offer price ...

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has hit back at a US proposal on Tehran’s nuclear programme, describing the Trump administration as “rude” and “thoughtless”.

Government needs clarity of vision amid research suggesting voters’ faith in the economic philosophy has declined ...

Donald Trump has described Xi Jinping as “extremely hard to make a deal with” as the two countries face off over claims from the US that China is reneging on a trade truce signed in Geneva last month.

The outlook for the Japanese real economy has also worsened significantly since the start of this year. In its latest projections, the OECD cut its forecasts for 2025 GDP growth to 0.7 per cent from 1 ...

Context: US President Donald Trump overnight doubled tariffs on steel and aluminium from 25 to 50 per cent to protect domestic producers. That is in addition to “reciprocal” US tariffs of 50 per cent ...