Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, ...

The FTSE 100 has reached 9,000 points for the first time in its history, as UK stocks benefit from global investors diversifying away from the US and from London’s trade deal with Washington. The UK ...

Labour’s confusion on tax limits the government’s ability to explain to its MPs what it is going to do and why in the Autumn Budget. That increases the possibility that a) whatever the government does ...

Shares in Barratt Redrow fell more than 10 per cent on Tuesday morning after the UK housebuilder said it had sold fewer homes than forecast in the year to the end of June. The company, one of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has been plunged into crisis after a Jewish ultra-Orthodox political party quit the ruling coalition in protest against a controversial effort to ...

Thames Water has said it will take at least a decade to turn around the heavily indebted utility and expressed doubt about its ability to avoid temporary nationalisation.

India said it had reached its Paris Agreement target of 50 per cent of non-fossil fuel power capacity five years ahead of its 2030 pledge, even as the world’s most populous country and third-biggest ...

Sam Woods, the BoE’s deputy governor for prudential regulation, said the changes would “bring in a simpler regime for smaller banks, make it easier for mid-sized banks to scale up in the mortgage ...

Rio Tinto has named Simon Trott as chief executive following the surprise exit of Jakob Stausholm, tasking the company ...

And “physical risk”, where sectors and firms have to change their output plans because they are on fire or under water. Here’s the really scary thing — the “Disasters and Policy Stagnation” scenario ...

Good morning. A “disappointed” and “unhappy” President Donald Trump has threatened any countries that trades with Russia with secondary tariffs, if Moscow doesn’t end it’s war on Ukraine soon. If he ...

Yields on 10-year Japanese government debt have hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis as markets begin to price in the risk of populist campaign pledges and political uncertainty ...