Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey called for the world's financial powers, led by the United States and China, to avoid economic nationalism in a speech released three days before Donald Trump is due to be sworn in as U.

So Donald Trump takes office buoyed up by the hugely confident business sector. Its leaders have been quick not only to voice support but also to trim their policies to fit the new political wind in Washington. Several gave donations, and he has hired one, Elon Musk, to try to streamline the federal bureaucracy.

Amid concerns that Trump could pull the US out of Nato unless other member states start to pull their weight, the defence secretary John Healey insisted that the incoming president was “rightly pushed European nations to do more to fund” the alliance.

Bloomberg Economics projects its aggregate measure of advanced-world interest rates to drop just 72 basis points in 2025, less than it did in 2024

Mark Carney, the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694 and the former head of Canada’s central bank, says he is entering the race to be Canada’s next prime minister fo

Chrystia Freeland has called for economic retaliation if President-elect Trump follows through with his threat to impose tariffs.

If successful, the former Bank of England governor would become Canada's interim prime minister ahead of the next general election

America’s biggest bank has quit Mark Carney’s net zero group amid a backlash against environmentalist capitalism.

The money paid by the the UK government for its own borrowing is getting more expensive as Donald Trump's return to the White House looms.

Trump Treasury Secretary Pick Scott Bessent once worked with George Soros, placing trades that bet against the pound, profiting more than $1 billion when the pound fell in value.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party finds itself in search of a new leader while dealing with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods a