Jay Alix, founder of the bankruptcy adviser AlixPartners, has ended a $5mn Washington lobbying campaign against McKinsey, bringing down the curtain on one of the consulting industry’s longest running ...

The president’s son-in-law has built a global business in part with relationships from his time in the first Trump White House ...

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

Trump welcomes Netanyahu to Washington, while Starmer meets EU heads in Brussels to discuss defence co-operation ...

The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...

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

US diplomats have requested an urgent exemption for Ukraine-related programmes from a 90-day freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders issued by secretary of state Marco Rubio, according to ...

From Anne Gordon, Vice President for International Tax Policy, National Foreign Trade Council, Washington, DC, US ...

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Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent ...

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 ...