The strain on households is real. Japan’s Engel coefficient, which measures food as a proportion of household spending, is at ...

Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn its record-breaking $50bn proposal to acquire Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, ...

Donald Trump said Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in the production of the company’s signature beverage, in what would ...

The US dollar fell sharply on Wednesday after Donald Trump asked lawmakers whether he should fire Federal Reserve chief Jay ...

Centralised and chaotic process has compromised launch of commission president’s spending plan, colleagues say ...

Current growth in government debt — a source of much market concern — is inflationary in the long term, but nothing is new ...

Four months since Trump fired the opening salvo of his trade war, only China and Canada have dared to hit back at Washington ...

United Airlines said “acceleration” in demand amid declining geopolitical and economic uncertainty should help it avoid the ...

All these tiffs will pass. But each one exposes an important truth: Trump and Maga are no longer the same thing. His movement ...

Britain and Germany will on Thursday vow to work more closely to sell jointly made weapons, including Typhoon jets, in a deal ...

Also in today’s newsletter, US set to ban Chinese tech in submarine cables, and Nvidia chief vows to ‘accelerate recovery’ of ...

I read with interest Pete Stavros’s recent op-ed (“Private equity can defy the gloomy narrative”, Opinion, July 5). As a former senior executive at KKR myself, I agree with much of his argument.