The White House hit Canada, a major trading partner that is the US’s biggest source of foreign oil, with a 35 per cent tariff rate as Washington and Ottawa were in talks. Carney could not get Trump on ...

Wave of US trade levies arrive, Bank of England sets interest rates, and Japan observes 80th anniversary of atomic bomb drops ...

Trend adds to pressure on Donald Trump over inequality as he threatens to undermine reliability of economic data ...