Jay Alix, founder of the bankruptcy adviser AlixPartners, has ended a $5mn Washington lobbying campaign against McKinsey, bringing down the curtain on one of the consulting industry’s longest running ...

Trump welcomes Netanyahu to Washington, while Starmer meets EU heads in Brussels to discuss defence co-operation ...

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

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

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: ...

From Anne Gordon, Vice President for International Tax Policy, National Foreign Trade Council, Washington, DC, US ...

Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent ...

Key Fed decision: The central bank’s expected decision today is the first following Trump’s return to office, which has been marked by a flurry of executive orders as the US president seeks to impose ...

The vice president and transportation secretary claimed that diversity hiring efforts had affected staffing levels among air ...

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 ...

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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was among the few Republicans to voice opposition to the tariffs that would take effect on ...