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.

Former ambassador to France Lu Shaye, who enraged many in Europe in 2023 when he questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet states and whether Crimea was part of Ukraine, had been appointed China’s ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

A notable example is Hubei Yangtze Memory Labs in Wuhan, where many engineers from leading Chinese chipmaker YMTC, which was added to the US Entity List in 2022, conduct trials and test samples.

Tariffs should not have a “massive impact” on trade this year as consumer sentiment remains strong, the chief executive of Danish container shipping giant AP Møller-Maersk has said.