Despite its misgivings about China’s industrial policies and growing political assertiveness, the EU is also keen for rail ...

Bank analysts are busy raising their estimates of the likelihood of a global recession this year. JPMorgan Chase now puts the ...

I N ITS SCOPE and severity, the trade war took markets by surprise. On April 3rd, the day after President Donald Trump laid ...

A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN Russia and Ukraine remains a distant prospect, and Europe has made slow progress towards creating a ...

Two years ago the governor of Texas named his top policy priority: a sprawling school-voucher bill that would give parents $10,000 each year if they sent their children to private schools, opting out ...

Any bilateral trade deficit is treated as gross unfairness; the tariffs are set by taking the measure as a share of goods ...

Under Mr Trump the process has run even farther off the rails. The president has no authority to delay the ban unless a deal ...

Northern Ireland exists as a sort of economic hybrid, in which the internal markets of Britain and the European Union ( EU) ...

Apple was once considered so important to both America and China that some even hoped it would help avert great-power ...

China’s retaliation has only worsened the global stockmarket rout. American shares have so far fallen by another 5% after the ...

Or a solid French moniker that would not have marked him out. But no, Luisa and Olivier named their only son Jordan.

Yet it is the weakening of the dollar that has shocked the most. After all, reasoning from first principles you would expect ...