Levies cut on 89 products to support domestic companies against Trump’s trade war

Company owners say the president’s measures will result in more manufacturing in the US

Comments follow emergency measures to bring British Steel under government control

Five years of export controls have helped it get very good at making things without American technology

Donald Trump’s vision to onshore factory jobs reverses decades of progress

The government now has the tricky task of running a costly and complex industrial operation

Cuts to PhD funding have caused UK student intake to shrink, data shows

Leading British tech groups explore moving headquarters in effort to tap deep-pocketed American investors

Lib Dem’s ejection ‘appears linked to her criticism of Beijing’, says international human rights alliance

Buckling to a volatile administration has costs that are only starting to become apparent

The US will pay a market penalty for Trump’s turmoil

Rethink comes as tariffs and talk of territorial expansion stoke market instability and geopolitical tension

Latin America’s largest economy is poised to extend its lead as China’s top food supplier

Irish company Workhuman says new technology can help workers feel more valued

Donald Trump’s tariffs will hit millions of video game consoles, electric fans and toys shipped to the US from China

Dispensation is first sign of softening of levies against China and provides a big boost for Apple

Even US Treasuries take a hit as Donald Trump’s tariff blitz shakes confidence in American assets

After years of robust spending there are signs that Americans’ wellspring of financial firepower is fading

MPs vote in favour of bill giving the government powers to seize control of British Steel

Erratic policymaking and rising trade barriers are jeopardising confidence in the currency

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

Why the middle years are better than youth and old age

A big question hanging over Britain’s prospects is whether the prime minister can grow on the job

Donald Trump’s tariff war adds pressure to Russian economy

Stoic defiance in ‘trinket town’ echoes Beijing’s insistence that nation can prevail against Donald Trump’s tariff blitz

Senior Fed official helps ease market jitters by signalling readiness to act if market strains grow

But only now are asset managers beginning to reconsider the story of America as an inexhaustible well of safe bets

International visitors stay away as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border rise

Officials around the world are dashing to diversify their economies. But the fight between the US and China casts a long shadow

US central bank prepared to act with ‘various tools’, Susan Collins says

The former hedge fund manager is being asked to lead negotiations with foreign governments amid America’s self-inflicted hit

Chancellor welcomes striking official data as allies set out ‘four-pronged response’ to Trump tariffs

Public ownership could be the saviour of the UK’s remaining steel industry

10-year US government bond yield rose most this week since 2001

President’s trade war likely to raise unemployment and slow economic growth ‘considerably’, says John Williams

Prime minister announces recall of parliament as government races to prevent closure of UK’s last two blast furnaces

Parking money in America is no longer the routine, fuss-free, neutral option

Investors rush away from junk bonds and leveraged loans on rising recession fears

Trump tariffs ‘beyond anything I could have imagined in my 49 years in finance’, says chief of world’s largest asset manager

US lender reports 26 per cent rise in first-quarter profits, powered by its equities trading business