Despite the cuts, US President Donald Trump and Hegseth earlier this week promised the first-ever $1tn budget for the defence department. The contract cuts come amid increasingly acrimonious attacks ...

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘The real cost of a trade war’ ...

In today’s newsletter, we look at how the country’s smaller towns are becoming hot new markets for ecommerce companies. But first, Chinese electric-car manufacturer BYD does not get permission to ...

Lynas, which is backed by Japanese investors keen to find an alternative to Chinese supplies, specialises in lighter metals ...

China has built 600mn tonnes of annual excess steelmaking capacity. The Chinese steel industry is a geopolitical tool, which dumps that excess capacity on world markets at below cost prices. Unless ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have several consequences, many not yet clear. One that is already very evident, despite the ...

Mark Fitzgerald’s observations about disappearing FTs (Letters, April 5) are more apposite than he might realise. We live in a community adjacent to Richmond upon Thames bridge and have our beloved ...

There is no reason why the rest of the world should not continue to have their economies reap the benefits of free trade, along the lines of existing free trade agreements such as Ceta (the EU-Canada ...

Investment advisers are still giving the conventional and usually correct advice as markets tumble: build your portfolio for the long term, dollar average, don’t sell in a downturn because you will ...

As we peer into the morass of Trumpian economics, Patrick Jenkins shines a useful light into that corner of the market where it all went wrong last time — namely the US mortgage market (“America’s ...

Unpredictability of what’s to come is causing volatility. Volatility is now driving margin calls across the board, in equities, commodities, FX and more.

The newest Centre Court debentures for the Wimbledon Championships changed hands late last year at £109,000, slightly below the £116,000 issue price ...