The US government is in talks to set up a multibillion-dollar fund for overseas mining projects with investment firm Orion Resource Partners, as Washington seeks to counter Chinese dominance of ...

Nestlé chair Paul Bulcke has stepped down weeks after firing chief executive Laurent Freixe for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a subordinate. Bulcke, who was due to step down from ...

Indian billionaire Naveen Jindal has made a surprise bid to buy Thyssenkrupp’s struggling steel unit, opening the door for the German industrial conglomerate to offload the business.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves hopes greater regulatory alignment will allow better access to America’s deep capital markets ...

Yet Labour MPs should think hard. There is no obvious successor who could be relied on to reverse Labour’s fortunes. Even if it could be achieved, bringing in the soft-left Andy Burnham, who has been ...

The OBR at present assumes trend productivity growth will average 1.1 per cent over the medium term. Shaving 0.1 or 0.2 percentage points from that forecast would lead to a deterioration in the fiscal ...

The EU and Indonesia have concluded talks on a trade deal and plan to sign it next week as they accelerate efforts to reduce their dependence on China and the US. European trade c ...

We wrote about LSEG’s blockchain plans a couple of years ago, and now we see their culmination in the raising of money for a private fund run by MembersCap, a reinsurance asset manager. Take that, ...

The Bank of Japan meets on Friday to decide on interest rates. The BoJ’s Monetary Policy Committee has maintained that it will continue to raise rates, which currently stand at 0.5 per cent, given the ...

US President Donald Trump said his upcoming state visit to the UK was “primarily” to be with the King and Queen but he could also “refine the trade deal a little bit”. Tru ...

At the centre of the Qatari controversy is a presentation drawn up by Vladimir Bolelyy, a Russian who worked as an analyst at Havilland, outlining a plan to attack the Qatari riyal and break its peg ...

Jaguar Land Rover’s dealers and suppliers fear the British carmaker’s operations will take another few months to normalise after a cyber attack that experts estimate could wipe more than £3.5bn off ...