US gold futures hit a record high on Friday after Donald Trump’s administration blindsided the global bullion market with a plan to impose tariffs on imports of one-kilo and 100-ounce bars.

The tariff ruling dealt “another blow” to the Swiss gold trade with the US, said Christoph Wild, president of the Swiss Association of Manufacturers and Traders of Precious Metals. Wild added that the ...

Lender signs 15-year lease for an office minutes from the bank’s Docklands base that it plans to vacate in 2027 ...

The UK government’s taskforce is preparing to publish its next-generation proposals. Could the markets, maisons and master planning of Europe’s still thriving 13th-century towns provide the answers?

An extraordinary power struggle has been playing out in Texas in the past few days. Republican governor Greg Abbott has called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who’ve left the state in an effort ...

Akazawa said that the US officials agreed to issue an amended executive order clarifying the Japanese exemption to stacked tariffs, and to simultaneously formalise the reduction in auto tariffs to 15 ...

Look, you should probably ask Jay Rayner. Some might say he has a touch more expertise, and he is known to go into this issue from time to time. But if you are looking for something less erudite, less ...

Good — G; Republican = R; the regular letters of riles are I and E and the US vice-president is VANCE. And all those together gives you a synonym for complaint — 100 = C; left = L; a synonym for total ...

Chapman’s Peak Drive, just south of the city, is one of the most beautiful drives in the world. On one side you have verdant ...

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, and Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor — are the frontrunners. But ...

Israel’s security cabinet has approved an expanded new military offensive that will start the full reoccupation of Gaza, beginning with taking over the ruins of Gaza City and leading up to the ...

The US government has doubled a reward to $50mn for information leading to the arrest or conviction of President Nicolás ...