Canada has pledged to spend $1bn on border security, and has recently deployed newly leased Black Hawk patrol helicopters, extra dogs and 60 drones at the border partly in response to Trump’s demands ...

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets ...

Key Fed decision: The central bank’s expected decision today is the first following Trump’s return to office, which has been marked by a flurry of executive orders as the US president seeks to impose ...

Donald Trump has said he is considering excluding oil imports from the 25 per cent tariffs he has threatened to impose on Mexico and Canada, in a sign the US president might offer exemptions for ...

Trump criticised EU legislation as “very cumbersome” in a video address to the World Economic Forum last week, which also attacked the bloc over its tax and trade regime and touted his own ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

But they warn that, if that fails, Iran is on a collision course with the west. European powers that opposed Trump’s maximum ...

“Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities.” It also ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...

President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis ...

Christine Murray Basically, the economic legacy that he left after initially being very careful with government spending, his final year, he blew a deficit of almost 6 per cent of GDP, the highest ...

But investors in the country’s economy have their concerns – and now there’s a new threat on the horizon: US President Donald Trump. The FT’s Mexico and Central America correspondent Christine Murray ...