A former UK tax adviser at broker dealer BGC Group accused of taking part in a £24mn scheme to defraud the US company is facing a prison sentence after he admitted breaching a freezing order on his ...

Scottish first minister John Swinney will bring forward his legislative programme by four months to May 6 to deal with the increased likelihood of recession following US President Donald Trump’s ...

Russia has admitted to carrying out a ballistic missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy that killed at least 34 civilians and injured a further 119, but blamed Kyiv for the ...

Talking about the moron premium, my colleague Katie Martin wrote a great column in which she opted for politeness in her headline: “Donald Trump has added a political risk premium to US assets”. Do ...

Which were . . .  The 10-year US Treasury yield in 1994, the infamous “bond massacre” that led James Carville to quip about wanting to come back as the bond market so that he could “intimidate ...

Working with fellow Europeans and other middle power democracies is both a strategic opportunity and a route away from over-dependence on America. The UK is well equipped to play a leading part in ...

The city-state’s ministry of trade dropped its growth forecast for the year from a 1-3 per cent rise in GDP to 0-2 per cent, which it attributed to a global demand outlook that had “significantly ...

Nato has acquired an AI-powered military system from Palantir, the US software company chaired by Donald Trump-backer Peter Thiel and with strong Pentagon connections.

Woodford said in his blog on Monday that he could “share more strategies, more ideas and more updates than would ever be possible in a traditional fund structure” through W4.0, as it was “not bound by ...

Pfizer will halt its development of a weight-loss drug that was being closely watched by investors, in a significant blow to the US pharmaceutical group. The company said on Monday that it would stop ...

European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices ...

Nostalgia for canned ‘Italian’ fare of my childhood makes me wonder how many Americans will notice higher prices on gourmet imports ...