Donald Trump said the US had agreed a “massive” trade deal with Japan that will impose 15 per cent tariffs on goods imported ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says he will ‘examine the details’ as US president announces 15% tariff ...

EU leaders are set for tough talks with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, as the two sides clash over trade and China’s alleged long-running support for Russia in the Ukraine war at a ...

From Afnan Wasif, MA in International Relations Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy ...

From Michael Sanfey, Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy ...

The British public normally raises the money to pay capital taxes by selling company securities. That tends to lower their market value, reducing the value for inheritance tax purposes.

Your report on Britain’s bid to join Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) convention misses the bigger risk: if the EU blocks closer ties now, they may end up having to negotiate with Nigel Farage, leader of ...

In his analysis of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s mis-steps as prime minister, Stephen Bush makes repeated references to the path ahead for the government to resurrection (“How Labour can resurrect ...

While Chinese government debt yields are certainly low, investors would be unwise to treat Chinese bank stocks as a higher yielding equivalent investment. That is because too much Chinese bank lending ...

Your letters correspondent from South Africa, Andrew Wigley, queries whether the super-rich pay enough tax in the UK (“Philanthropy has a role in how we tax the super-rich”, July 5 ).

This prejudice is a throwback to the era of early 19th-century classical liberalism, which saw the abolition in Britain of the Speenhamland system that had subsidised low-wage workers out of the rates ...

Passive investing is often praised for its simplicity, low cost and long-run outperformance (“Asset managers launch active ETFs at record pace”, Report, FT.com, July 22). Yet viewed through the lens ...