For a start, firms usually pass on tariffs by raising prices. During Mr Trump’s last sortie against Chinese manufacturing in ...

In a second stiffening of the rules in as many years, rich Norwegians will now pay levies on dividends if they plan to remain ...

The boss of Saba Capital, an American hedge fund, was railing at fund managers in Britain’s venerable investment-trust ...

If the Bank of Japan had behaved in a similar manner to its G 10 peers, notes Tim Baker of Deutsche Bank, the country’s ...

That left Rachel Reeves, Britain’s chancellor, with an uphill task when she arrived at the Swiss alpine town to court ...

Bankers are likely to thrive in America’s MAGA era. The expectation of broad financial deregulation, provided by a president ...

With few other safe assets to turn to, banks that are under pressure, as well as insurers and fund managers, have piled into ...

F or bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times ...

The consensus that America should be a benign superpower, born out of the ashes after 1945, has gone, too. And Mr Trump wants ...

Across the political spectrum, India’s parties are embracing cash transfers as a political and policy tool. Alongside Delhi, ...

Traffic jams are a scourge. Lost time hurts productivity. There is a human toll on health, both mentally and in terms of air pollution and road safety. Asian cities are world-class for traffic. Of the ...

Meanwhile on the ground in Gaza the ceasefire, which came into effect on January 19th, is holding. The first hostages have ...