Category: Global

Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ set to touch down in Davos

From Venezuela to Iran and now Greenland, the volatile US president is tearing up global norms

Bessent says Deutsche chief distanced bank from researc...

Bank strategist published note suggesting European investors could sell US assets in response to trade threats

Bessent mocks EU tariff response from ‘dreaded European...

US Treasury secretary derides the ‘dreaded European working group’

Saudi banks borrow abroad at fastest ever pace

Lenders rebalance books as tight liquidity from kingdom’s megaprojects forces them to look overseas for funding

The reality of trying to make US manufacturing great ag...

The fortunes of furniture makers in North Carolina and Foshan in China show the impact of Trump’s tariff regime

Greenland is ground zero for Arctic ‘Great Game’

‘It may sound like American chauvinism . . . and it is. We’re done apologising about that,’ says Trump official

EU states spurn €74bn in unused Covid recovery loans

Eight countries cut planned borrowing under scheme as deadline to spend the cash looms

How the Greenland deployment of a few European troops e...

Military exercise was ostensibly to show support for Arctic security, but US president saw it as a provocation

Russia knocks out power, heating and water to Ukraine’s...

Missile and drone barrage unleashed on Kyiv comes hours after Donald Trump invited Vladimir Putin to join his ‘Board of Peace’

Dollar falls sharply and Wall Street stocks set for hea...

US president insists ‘there can be no going back’ on demand for island

Japan’s 40-year bonds surpass 4% for first time

Traders sell sovereign debt ahead of snap election that could give PM Sanae Takaichi fiscal spending mandate

America’s barbarian turn

No ideological code can fully capture Trump’s actions