Good morning. Last week provided a perfect snapshot of the bind the Labour government finds itself in. The UK has been hit by Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs which threaten to drive up the price of ...

Vance predicted that Washington would negotiate “a lot of positive trade relationships with Europe” and insisted he viewed Europe as an “ally” of America. “We just want it to be an alliance where ...

Growth in oil demand is expected to slow sharply this year because of the negative impact of US tariffs on trade, the International Energy Agency has warned in its first forecast since Donald Trump’s ...

De La Rue, the UK banknote maker, has agreed to a takeover by investment group Atlas Holdings in a deal that values the group at £263mn, marking the exit of another established British company from ...

Advertisers have cut back on large capital expenditure projects since the start of the year, according to the boss of Publicis, who warned that the US tariff war would heighten caution among the ...

Japan’s TDK is claiming a breakthrough in optical technology that would process data 10 times faster than current electronics and solve a key bottleneck holding back the growth of generative ...

Flat to declining wage growth and falling payrolled employees will enable BoE to ease despite still-strong wage pressures ...

China’s President Xi Jinping has urged Vietnam to work with Beijing to oppose “unilateral bullying”, in a thinly veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s imposition of high tariffs on trading partners. Xi ...

Instead, Wolfspeed got caught up in the politics and bureaucracy of the Chips Act and a change of administration, and is now left (to switch from land to sea) swimming with the sharks. Ironically or ...

Context: Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts a “Victory Parade” each year to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in the second world war. Foreign leaders are guests of honour to watch the column ...

If faster economic indicators are a reliable guide, Donald Trump has pushed the US economy off a cliff within 100 days of his second term as president. We should always be careful about alternative ...

Argentina is getting an enormous lifeline. Last week, the International Monetary Fund agreed to loan the country $20bn. It is the 23rd deal between the IMF and the country, but this money comes with ...