The president’s son-in-law has built a global business in part with relationships from his time in the first Trump White House ...

Trump indicated he was unmoved by economists’ warnings that new tariffs would hurt the US economy or risk a leap in inflation ...

Jay Alix, founder of the bankruptcy adviser AlixPartners, has ended a $5mn Washington lobbying campaign against McKinsey, bringing down the curtain on one of the consulting industry’s longest running ...

Trump welcomes Netanyahu to Washington, while Starmer meets EU heads in Brussels to discuss defence co-operation ...

The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio claimed to a US radio station this week that China could potentially “shut down the Panama Canal” in any conflict. Ahead of a trip to Panama this weekend, he added: ...

US diplomats have requested an urgent exemption for Ukraine-related programmes from a 90-day freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders issued by secretary of state Marco Rubio, according to ...

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets ...

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From Anne Gordon, Vice President for International Tax Policy, National Foreign Trade Council, Washington, DC, US ...

Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent ...