UK prime minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Belfast on Tuesday to sell his post-Brexit trade deal for Northern Ireland to business leaders after the region’s main unionist party welcomed progress…

Three decades ago, China’s annual economic output was about $433bn in current dollar terms, making its economy roughly the size of an Austria or South Africa today.It is now comfortably…

As Shanghai re-emerges from a Covid-19 outbreak and three years of restrictions that hampered travel and trade, the financial hub is doing so without much evidence of what made it…

The writer is an FT contributing editorOn Tuesday Lael Brainard started her new job as the top economic adviser to Joe Biden. This leaves open her old position as vice-chair…

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Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins — long-tenured moderates — are among the Senate Republicans most likely to support legislation that increases the debt ceiling. Nothing is certain in this…

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Jeremy Hunt has received an unexpected £30bn windfall in the public finances head of his March Budget, giving the chancellor scope to provide extra support for energy bills, keep fuel…

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European business groups and lawmakers have hit out at the White House after it announced fresh measures aimed at promoting investment in homegrown green technology. The support for American-made electric…