Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn its record-breaking $50bn proposal to acquire Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, ...

The US dollar fell sharply on Wednesday after Donald Trump asked lawmakers whether he should fire Federal Reserve chief Jay ...

Four months since Trump fired the opening salvo of his trade war, only China and Canada have dared to hit back at Washington ...

Donald Trump said Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in the production of the company’s signature beverage, in what would ...

United Airlines said “acceleration” in demand amid declining geopolitical and economic uncertainty should help it avoid the ...

Also in today’s newsletter, US set to ban Chinese tech in submarine cables, and Nvidia chief vows to ‘accelerate recovery’ of ...

Current growth in government debt — a source of much market concern — is inflationary in the long term, but nothing is new ...

Britain and Germany will on Thursday vow to work more closely to sell jointly made weapons, including Typhoon jets, in a deal ...

Patrick Schroeder ( Letter, July 14) calls for a new international organisation to oversee scarce minerals. Such a body needs a motto, to encapsulate its values, as “Health for All” does for WHO and ...

Centralised and chaotic process has compromised launch of commission president’s spending plan, colleagues say ...

In February, Diageo appointed Sir John Manzoni, former permanent secretary for the UK’s cabinet office, as chair, just as the ...

The strain on households is real. Japan’s Engel coefficient, which measures food as a proportion of household spending, is at a 43-year high and inflation-adjusted wages fell for a fifth straight ...