Elon Musk has said US President Donald Trump backs his bid to distribute savings from a government cost-cutting drive directly to citizens, setting up a potential showdown with Republican deficit ...

To drive investment regulator Ofgem should rely on longer-term objectives, National Infrastructure Commission says ...

Group expects to produce fewer trucks and vans this year as demand cools and Donald Trump hits out at EV sector ...

When asked what future historians would say about the first world war, Georges Clemenceau, then prime minister of France, commented that the one thing no one could say was that Belgium invaded Germany ...

In your news story “Rubio to shun South African G20 meeting over drive for ‘equality’” (Report, February 7) South African opposition MP Songezo Zibi is quoted as saying, “The Trump administration is ...

The answer is not more availability of affordable insurance to permit more building, as Hielkema implies. If insurers are unwilling to insure properties in a certain location that is because it is too ...

By comparison, and for all our faults and perennial grumbling, we mid-table Europeans enjoy a relatively contented existence in what are free and civilised societies. This is the upside perhaps of ...

There is a very obvious way to make maths relevant to almost all students, and that is to place finance centrally within the maths curriculum. At GCSE this could be done by making it a separate topic, ...

For an ambitious plutocrat like Elon Musk, such things are hard to tolerate. His social network X is reportedly looking to ...

Tariffs, trade wars and plans for big tax cuts could all rattle investors in US Treasuries, but it’s a resilient market with ...

Moscow’s demand during Riyadh talks rejected but allies fear Donald Trump could yet allow restoration of former Soviet bloc ...

Shares of cruise line operators tumbled after US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick indicated the Trump administration was considering cracking down on the loopholes they use to pay low tax rates.