Bretton Woods once tied the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce. The so-called Nixon shock of 1971 when President Richard Nixon announced his “new economic policy”, a programme “to create a new prosperity ...

RBI burns through more than $20bn of foreign exchange reserves this month trying to defend currency, say bankers ...

Trade ultimately flows via the unencumbered paths of least resistance. Navigating diplomacy, preparedness, integration and deterrence will not make for smooth sailing for regional bystanders, but in a ...

China has moved to stop “low-quality” companies from listing in Hong Kong as it seeks to slow but not halt an IPO boom. The ...

How will the US central bank handle inflation and a slowing economy?

While the world has been transfixed by the Brent crude rollercoaster, the war’s effects on mineral and fertiliser markets have been consistently underestimated (Report, FT.com, March 11). The policy ...

Tim Hayward writes that “mackerel isn’t really that nice (How mackerel became Schrödinger’s fish”, Opinion, March 7). Really? He has patently never eaten these fine pelagic fish using the Cornish ...

The Danish military sent explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January as part of contingency planning for a US ...

The biggest US banks’ capital requirements will be cut by 4.8 per cent under proposals by regulators in one of the most ...

The philosopher and social theorist, Jürgen Habermas, who has died at the age of 96, towered over the intellectual life of ...

Reeves nonetheless pledged to “liberate our regions from stifling Whitehall orthodoxies” by giving mayors and other regional ...

The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75 per cent on Thursday, warning of higher inflation and opening the door to an ...