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US president frustrated at Federal Reserve’s wait-and-see approach while European Central Bank has cut rates again

Beijing has attempted to improve relations with Brussels since Donald Trump returned to the White House

‘We’re really where we were before the meeting, which is nowhere,’ says one official at OECD annual meeting

From stars in the universe to interest rate cuts, digits both large and small now go unchallenged

The US president’s recent steel tariffs appeal to voters. But do they create jobs?

Head of the US central bank’s St Louis branch Alberto Musalem expects uncertainty ‘through the summer’

Renewed attack on Federal Reserve comes after official data shows weakening employment growth

Announcement follows phone call between American president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping

Democrats and Republicans alike have presided over an unsustainable growth in the debt and deficit

Frequent changes to levies make it difficult to predict how trade of the metals would be affected

Britain’s largest steel producer urges government to secure full deal with Trump as soon as possible

He was among the most influential macroeconomists of his generation

Move lowers borrowing costs to 20% and follows reduction in inflation

Republican senators are pushing for carbon tariffs as a way to boost US manufacturers

Also in today’s newsletter, Circle shares soar on first day of trading

Policymakers lower the benchmark repo rate by half a percentage point to 5.5 per cent as fears over inflation ease

For the first time in almost a generation, governments are starting to face regular resistance from investors when they try to sell long-term debt

How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

The old economic order is dead. What will replace it?

Chief operating officer John Waldron anticipates period of ‘slowflation’ with rising prices outpacing growth