It’s approaching 09:00 in Washington DC and US President Donald Trump has made his first comments since 10% levies on some countries have come into effect. China has been hit much harder than th...
The US is waking up to its first day under Donald Trump’s new trade rules. Yesterday, Wall Street closed one of its most volatile weeks in years, shaking investors and sending economic shockwave...
The US market may have dropped sharply last week, but for US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump’s tariff policies aren’t necessarily to blame. “For everyone who thinks these market ...
An American importer of Chinese wine has told Reuters that new US tariffs on China will be “catastrophic” for her business. Camden Hague was getting ready to launch her company, but says P...
Some Republican lawmakers in the US are backing a new bill that would force Congress to vote on any new tariffs before they can stay in place. Under the proposal, any new tariffs would automatically e...
The US and the Democratic Republic of Congo are in talks over a minerals deal in the resource-rich central African nation, according to a senior US official. You have heard about a minerals agreement....
The Trump administration has fired the head of both the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, a US partner CBS has reported. The removal of General Timothy Haugh comes amid what appears to be...
If you scan across Donald Trump’s tariff chart, you’ll see that the value in the first column equals roughly half of the number in the second column for most countries. There’s a reason ...
A week ago, Westminster was digesting the chancellor’s Spring Statement and all the talk was of a tightrope walk and precarious public finances. Next, let’s go back nearly two decades to t...
President Donald Trump says he is “very close” to brokering a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if its Chinese owner does not sell the app by the weekend. A bipartisan ...
