The EU will offer to cut tariffs on US car imports as part of a deal to avoid a trade war with Donald Trump, according to a senior lawmaker. Bernd Lange, who heads the European parliament’s trade ...

Swedish fintech Klarna is targeting an IPO in the US in April with a valuation of up to $15bn, in what would be one of the biggest listings this year.

The hearing comes at an existential moment for Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company that is struggling under its £19bn debt mountain. If the court does not approve the emergency loan, the ...

The rationale for the bank’s doves may be to frontload cuts — the UK still has some of the highest rates globally — before the rise in inflation makes it prohibitive. This was the market’s ...

There is science and art in putting these little-more-than seedlings in the ground. And now’s the time to act, before they — and their prices — grow ...

In the first in a new series about independent makers creating pieces for the home, London-based Vezzini & Chen’s poetic ...

Is socialising the only way to fill in the information gaps left by a tenancy agreement? Currently in England the balance of ...

Honeywell remained a conglomerate long after it was cool. General Electric, Danaher, Alcoa, 3M and United Technologies have all split into smaller chunks to be nimbler and more valuable. Now, the ...

For Japan, the aim is to underscore the rock-solid nature of the relationship and receive clear assurances of the countries’ ...

My studio is only a 10-minute walk from the castle in which the Pendle witch trials happened in 1612 when men and women were ...

It’s sometimes hard to tell in advance how tough a given FT Alphaville Pub Quiz will be. Plus, last night’s quizzery in the heart of Washington DC had an added twist — rather than the smörgåsbord of ...

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