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Sir Keir Starmer may have to make concessions on Britain’s digital services tax and agriculture

Swedish fintech brought ‘pay in four’ to everything from food to fashion but sceptics point to model’s vulnerabilities

The government must embark on a much more radical programme of structural reforms

Visitors suffer hostile treatment since Donald Trump’s return to the White House

The real problem is one that hand-wringing over ‘toxic masculinity’ won’t solve

The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged — the globe will just end up poorer

Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports

Voter and business sentiment will pile pressure on the president’s agenda

Investors and companies can adjust to most things when they know the rules but under Trump, the rules keep changing

There is nothing accountable or legitimate about unelected officials setting taxation and spending policy

Newest financing comes as ChatGPT maker seeks to become conventional for-profit company

Economic incentives outweigh politics in the long run

HSBC’s sacking of bankers without a payout is part of a wider reset of incentives

There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president’s actions

Some Europeans are looking to the next geoeconomic contest

Warning from Texas senator comes as president’s trade war sends US markets into a tailspin

America’s tariff onslaught will drive upheaval well beyond trade

Figure comes as Trump administration makes sweeping cuts to the federal workforce

The new field of ‘geoeconomics’ offers a guide for the perplexed

Misplaced nostalgia is not a good enough reason for something that will only hurt voters

Everybody wants sovereignty. Everybody wants wealth. Yet a fund is not, sadly, a reliable route to their creation

UK prime minister tells MPs a trade war is ‘in nobody’s interests’

On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power

Generative images show us the risks of endowing the technology with magical powers

Econometric study models global fallout from tariff retaliation, including dramatic rise in US prices

BlackRock boss tells shareholders people are more anxious about the economy than at any time in recent memory

North Sea steering group calls on ministers to ‘act now to restore investor confidence’

Proxy adviser calls for shareholders to reject chief executive David Solomon and president John Waldron’s $80mn awards

Billionaire dubs Peter Navarro a ‘moron’ as feud over policy intensifies

Investors continue to assess tariff risks after heavy sell-off last week

Head of world’s biggest asset manager says market ructions are ‘impacting Main Street’

Islands’ exports to US — a category composed almost entirely of a succulent deep-sea fish — will face 42 per cent levy from next week

Starmer pledges to redouble efforts to strike trade deal with the US

Billionaire backs case brought by Coinbase client whose data was surrendered to authorities

Google’s AI arm led by Demis Hassabis makes it harder for its researchers to publish studies in major change in approach

Bruce Carnegie-Brown endorses Patrick Tiernan as insurance market prepares for three top jobs to change hands

Far-right leader vows to contest verdict that jeopardises her ambitions to run for French presidency in 2027

Private equity interest comes as UK’s largest water utility fights to avoid renationalisation

Trump’s defence secretary uses Tokyo trip to call for a strengthening of the deterrence against China

Swedish krona and Norwegian krone are best-performing of G10 group of developed market currencies