Oil prices continued to fall on Friday, extending Thursday’s sharp drop. Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded at its lowest level in more than three years, below $65 a barrel, a fall of almost 8 percent. Fears that President Trump’s tariffs could slash global economic growth — and demand for oil as a result — […]
Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News The UK exported nearly £60bn worth of goods to the US last year, making it one of the most important markets for thousands of British businesses. After President Donald Trump announced a 10% tariff on nearly all UK products, we spoke to businesses from some of Britain’s biggest exporters […]
Find out who is missing through injury, who’s in a race against time to prove their fitness and who has been ruled out through suspension for the next round of LaLiga fixtures. And as you plan your fantasy team for the next gameweek, check out the predicted XIs for all 20 clubs. Positions: Goalkeeper (GK), […]
China has struck back at President Trump. In a rapid fire series of policy announcements from Beijing on Friday evening, including 34 percent across-the-board tariffs, three government agencies showed that China has no intention of backing down in the trade war that Mr. Trump began this week with his own steep tariffs on imports from […]
Newer and more expensive medications are more likely to be made in the United States or Europe. Ireland, in particular, has become a hub because it is a tax haven. Many of the industry’s biggest blockbusters are manufactured at least partly in Ireland. Among them are: Keytruda, Merck’s cancer drug; Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drug; […]
Shares slid again on Friday as markets continued to react to the uncertainty surrounding the economic impact of US tariffs. European markets saw further falls as trading got under way, with both the UK’s FTSE 100 index and France’s Cac 40 down more than 1%. Asian markets had also declined earlier. The sweeping new tariffs […]
President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on a scale unseen in nearly a century is more than a shot across the bow at U.S. trading partners. If kept in place, the import taxes will also launch an economic project of defiant nostalgia: an attempt to reclaim America’s place as a dominant manufacturing power. In the postwar […]
It’s time to check in with NFL executives for thoughts on the biggest and most interesting moves NFC teams made — or have not yet made — in free agency. The once-sleepy Chicago Bears might have won the offseason, drawing positive reviews. The Minnesota Vikings remain the most intriguing team as ownership tries to downplay […]
Lily Jamali BBC tech correspondent, San Francisco Getty Images President Donald Trump says he is “very close” to brokering a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if its Chinese owner does not sell the app by the weekend. A bipartisan law passed by Congress last year mandates TikTok’s Chinese […]
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada’s increasingly liberal laws. Warning: This article contains details and descriptions […]