Donald Trump has withdrawn EJ Antoni as his nominee to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, just weeks after he picked the Heritage Foundation’s chief economist to run one of the government’s ...

BlackRock acquired GIP last year for $12.5bn and now manages nearly $200bn in assets worldwide, making it one of the largest specialised infrastructure investment groups globally. GIP has a history ...

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President Donald Trump has said his administration “may” fire “a lot” of federal workers if the US government shuts down this ...

The recent move by Mexico to impose tariffs on countries with which it has no free trade agreement, and especially its targeting of China, confirms that the world is moving from multilateralism ...

As the hapless male chipmunk discovered in James Thurber’s short story “The Shrike and the Chipmunks” (published in The New Yorker in 1939) “early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and ...

I was pleased to read the article by Anjli Raval on employees owning shares in businesses (“Free shares aim to get staff invested in success”, Work & Careers, September 29).

Offshore Energies UK’s projections for oil and gas demand, which she refers to, are not optimistic hypotheticals but grounded in realism. The UK needs 10bn-15bn barrels of oil and gas up to 2050, and ...

I noted the headline “Households should hoard emergency cash, ECB study finds” ( Report, September 25). Considering some digital coins exceed €100,000, I wonder how many I should hoard so I can buy a ...

Over the course of July, Japan recorded a small month-on-month fall in one of the country’s most sensitive — and too often ...

Trump’s critique of Japan was in vogue at the time. In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan’s industry, subsidised by the Japanese ...

The number of babies born to Japanese parents fell below 700,000 in 2024 for the first time since records began at the end of ...