US secretary of state Marco Rubio claimed to a US radio station this week that China could potentially “shut down the Panama Canal” in any conflict. Ahead of a trip to Panama this weekend, he added: ...

President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis ...

Key Fed decision: The central bank’s expected decision today is the first following Trump’s return to office, which has been marked by a flurry of executive orders as the US president seeks to impose ...

Trump indicated he was unmoved by economists’ warnings that new tariffs would hurt the US economy or risk a leap in inflation ...

Claire Jones Exactly. So Trump said after the meeting on the Truth Social platform that the Fed had done very little to fight inflation, that it was something that he would solve and then criticised ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico sparked panic and condemnation from the US’s top trading partners, who said the levies would devastate North America’s economy and overturn ...

Mexico’s government has been creating shelters fit for 2,500 people each to take back deportees from the US. Several ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets ...

But investors in the country’s economy have their concerns – and now there’s a new threat on the horizon: US President Donald Trump. The FT’s Mexico and Central America correspondent Christine Murray ...

This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Tech in 2025 — The view from Silicon Valley’ ...

Christine Murray Basically, the economic legacy that he left after initially being very careful with government spending, his final year, he blew a deficit of almost 6 per cent of GDP, the highest ...