Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, will “start the process” of stepping down as chair of its board of trustees, weeks after the organisation promised an overhaul after an ...

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This year the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access and Growth (VPAG) — negotiated by the previous Conservative government — will mean drugmakers pay back 22.9 per cent of their UK ...

Andrew Goodwin, chief economist at the consultancy Oxford Economics, now expects the UK economy to grow at just below 1 per ...

Amid the sea of red, there is one subset of merchants that actually stands to benefit from Trump’s sweeping trade war.

When Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company they called Micro-Soft 50 years ago this week, it was to sell a version of ...

Stellantis said that it would furlough 900 workers at five plants in the US and temporarily shut production in Canada and Mexico, marking the first major fallout on American automotive workers from ...

If it endures, Donald Trump’s decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history.

Islands’ exports to US — a category composed almost entirely of a succulent deep-sea fish — will face 42 per cent levy from next week ...

Banking regulator finds 60 out of 267 banks have insufficient US dollar funding to cover exposures in the currency ...

The government spent £2.8bn of its aid budget on asylum seekers in the UK in 2024, down from £4.3bn in 2023, meaning asylum costs fell from 28 per cent of the aid budget to a fifth last year.

But manufacturers and economists said new tariffs of between 32 and 49 per cent on many south-east Asian economies come as a much bigger shock, undermining the “China plus one” strategy of using them ...