China announced a Rmb10tn ($1.4tn) fiscal package on Friday to help shore up its faltering economy, as it braces for increased trade tensions with the US under Donald Trump.

Sixty-nine per cent of American adults saw the US presidential election as a significant stressor, not one in seven as wrongly suggested in an article on November 2 ...

As well as housing the city’s nearest and dearest, Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof cemetery offers insights into aspects of European history (“Death in Vienna”, Travel, Life & Arts, November 2). A few years ...

Yet despite those facts, Fed chair Jay Powell has said in recent times: “We are strongly committed to returning inflation to our 2 per cent goal in support of a strong economy that benefits everyone.” ...

Dismay because of the obvious ignorance and simmering hatred in the book under discussion, and disbelief that a quality newspaper like the FT should recommend it as one of its “best books of the week” ...

Lucy Fisher talks to the FT’s Ed Luce, Lauren Fedor and Jim Pickard, and Katy Balls, political editor of the Spectator ...

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin held his first call with his new Israeli counterpart, defence minister Israel Katz. Austin congratulated Katz on his appointment and conveyed his concern and ...

Rachel Reeves will next week set out plans to use the £354bn local government pension scheme to boost the UK economy, in a Mansion House speech intended to reassure the City of London that she has a ...

The S&P 500 topped 5,000 points for the first time on February 8 and has gained more than 25 per cent so far in 2024. The ...

Following the results, the company announced that Rosalind Morgan, wife of Morgan Sindall’s chief executive John Morgan, had sold 11,543 shares on October 24 for £1.1mn. Morgan Sindall said the sale ...

Elon Musk participated in the first phone call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, according to officials in Kyiv. A spokesperson for ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Robert Lighthizer, who was US trade representative ...