Advent International has beaten KKR in a private equity bidding war for Spectris after its increased £4.8bn offer for the UK ...

New duty level on Swiss goods one of highest in the world and exceeds 31% rate outlined by Donald Trump in April ...

UK investors have been buying gold coins in record numbers this year to mitigate against rises in capital gains tax and to cash in on the surging price of the precious metal.

Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the US ambassador to Israel travelled to Gaza on Friday to visit an aid site run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, defending the scheme as ...

Crucial exporters to the US such as Taiwan, the world’s most important semiconductor exporter, will incur steep new levies.

The July labour market data is an early indication that the Fed may face a difficult trade-off at the September meeting. The labour market is not weakening so much as to make a rate cut a necessity, ...

The boost in output, triggered by strong growth in the companies’ operations in the Permian, the largest US oilfield, helped the groups to beat Wall Street expectations even as lower oil prices sent ...

In almost 30 years of “Troubles”, Northern Ireland had 3,500 deaths. At almost 2mn, Northern Ireland’s population is comparable to Gaza’s. In 36 years of conflict, Jammu and Kashmir, which has a ...

The US labour market has slowed sharply over the past three months, according to new data released on Friday that will intensify pressure on the Federal Reserve to bow to Donald Trump’s calls to slash ...

A company linked to Russia’s high-profile Rotenberg family has been fined £300,000 for breaching UK sanctions.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the UN General Assembly. The decision comes after some Labour MPs and cabinet ministers accused him of being too slow ...

The IMF has long said the law, which was passed on Thursday night, was crucial for Lebanon to recover from the crisis, in which the currency lost over 90 per cent of its value and bank deposits were ...