Financial Times

Sterling has hit its highest level since November, pushing above $1.30 against the dollar, as the opposition Labour party signalled it could support legislation to delay Britain’s departure…

Capital raising by US oil exploration and production companies has fallen sharply following the decline in crude prices that began last October, pointing to cutbacks in capital spending…

“It’s pretty fresh this morning,” Wayne Widdecombe calls out of the cab of his 40-tonne truck sitting in a frosty industrial estate on the outskirts of Bourg-en-Bresse, more than 400km…

The US Senate will vote on two proposals on Thursday to end the longest US government shutdown, but hopes for a long-term solution to the impasse remained dim, with both sides refusing to…

This week, Emmerson Mnangagwa, president and ostensible new face of Zimbabwe, cut short a foreign trip, skipping Davos to attend to things at home “in light of the economic situation”. In…

Atiku Abubakar, the leading opposition challenger to Nigeria’s president, has said he would seek to overhaul oil production deals with international companies and push for energy reforms if…

While the new Democratic-controlled House of Representatives makes legislative reforms in financial regulation very unlikely, we predict the financial regulators will continue to effect…

UK retail sales in December were the weakest in a decade, barely rising from a year before. So said the industry’s lobby group, the British Retail Consortium.

When Huawei released its latest chip set in Shenzhen this month, the state-run Global Times newspaper hailed the “groundbreaking” development as a “boost” for China’s domestic chipmaking…

Global regulators are starting to home in on an academic theory on the drawbacks of overlapping corporate ownership by investors, a trend that could pose a threat to the $80tn asset…