The European Central Bank has urged Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party to “reconsider” a plan to declare that gold reserves held by the country’s central bank belong to the Italian people.

Bond investors have told the US Treasury they are concerned about Kevin Hassett’s potential appointment as Federal Reserve chair, worrying he will cut interest rates aggressively to please President ...

Brussels has proposed a legally contentious workaround to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine backed by immobilised Russian state assets, including emergency powers that in effect strip Hungary and other ...

Pete Hegseth has invoked the “fog of war” as the US defence secretary defended the legality of a deadly double strike on an ...

UK policymakers are focused on funding, pouring energy into reforming capital markets, corralling pension funds to invest in ...

The future of the Russia-Ukraine war increasingly looks like it will be negotiated not by diplomats and accountable ...

In theory, taking a view on what we will all be wearing is exactly the job of a fashion company. The very best create a new ...

They grow up so fast. Anthropic, a maker of artificial intelligence models and rival to OpenAI, has hired lawyers ahead of an ...

UK ministers are exploring tougher regulation of AI chatbots over concerns they could encourage teenagers to commit acts of ...

Derek Halpenny, head of research in global markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at MUFG, attributed the move to the ...

The wuxiu habit is regarded as traditional but its popularity has grown with rising incomes and longer working hours ...

Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s books editors Frederick Studemann and Maria Crawford on Friday, December ...