Last week, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s administrative self-coup (or autogolpe) — his orders to the executive branch to arrogate the power of the purse that the Constitution grants to the ...

Top US diplomat echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk in condemning promotion of ‘solidarity’ and ‘sustainability’ ...

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 ...

But for Palestinians, the outlandish vision underscored the very real danger that Trump will embolden a government widely seen as the most rightwing in Israeli history, and give a green light to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to resume Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, in his most explicit pledge yet to reject a lasting ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma star in a London production that uses dance brilliantly but lacks emotional connection ...