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

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: ...

President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis ...

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

Sonja Hutson The US disperses tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid each year. That money has been a key source of American diplomatic power for decades. But with the stroke of a pen, President ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico sparked panic and condemnation from the US’s top trading partners, who said the levies would devastate North America’s economy and overturn ...

Mexico’s government has been creating shelters fit for 2,500 people each to take back deportees from the US. Several ...

President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom will be thwarted by Wall Street’s reluctance to approve another drilling ...

Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday as the 47th president of the US. Markets were volatile. The dollar initially weakened ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has put more than $300bn of potential federal infrastructure funding at risk, US investors said, as they grappled with the scale of his move to unpick Joe ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...