Any bilateral trade deficit is treated as gross unfairness; the tariffs are set by taking the measure as a share of goods ...

Under Mr Trump the process has run even farther off the rails. The president has no authority to delay the ban unless a deal ...

Then there is the risk to sales in China, he adds. Apple’s revenues in the country fell by 8% last year, mostly because of ...

Northern Ireland exists as a sort of economic hybrid, in which the internal markets of Britain and the European Union ( EU) ...

China’s retaliation has only worsened the global stockmarket rout. American shares have so far fallen by another 5% after the ...

Yet it is the weakening of the dollar that has shocked the most. After all, reasoning from first principles you would expect ...

But the deal hailed by Donald Trump as a way to regain American control of the Panama Canal seems to get more complicated by ...

Or a solid French moniker that would not have marked him out. But no, Luisa and Olivier named their only son Jordan.

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Mr Yoon was impeached by the National Assembly after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law in early December. The ...

In response to Donald Trump’s first term as president, Xi Jinping, China’s leader, initiated a campaign to reduce China’s ...

Because they are paid based on their productivity rather than time worked, some, like Mr Pennington, earn mere cents each ...