Rachel Reeves will use her keynote Mansion House speech on Thursday to espouse the benefits of free and open trade in a direct plea to the protectionist US president-elect Donald Trump.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Struck by cancer in his early 30s, Cláudio found solace in a pastime that has hooked millions of his fellow ...

The Philippines intends to buy intermediate-range missile launchers from the US, a plan likely to trigger more Chinese protests over Manila’s efforts to boost its defences.

After scooping up hundreds of millions of pounds of Thames Water’s debt from panicked asset managers willing to sell at a discount, Paul Singer’s Elliott is now one of several hedge funds engaged in a ...

The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen to a six-year low, figures uncovered by the Financial Times have revealed. Known in tax circles as ...

Increasing numbers of UK interiors brands are “peddling their wares” with a village-fete style verve – both broadening their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This summer, Polish bakery group Putka started offering English classes to ease communication among its ...

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So-called break-evens on US sovereign debt — a proxy for investors’ inflation expectations — have risen steadily in recent ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum has limited leverage despite the country being the largest trading partner of the US ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...