Both countries have expressed interest in negotiations, but it may be a painful journey to get there

Trump's tariff war has sent stock markets reeling, leaving investors looking to the US central bank for relief. But this is no quick fix.

Days after US president Donald Trump’s administration unveiled the sharpest ever escalation in American tariffs going back 200 years, Chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that tariffs…

The US president still has plenty of outs from his extreme tariffs

Stocks, the dollar, and crude oil are all down on fears of a trade war-induced slowdown

Double-digit tariffs on nearly every trading partner will likely spark reprisals

When the next crisis hits, global markets may not be able to count on America's financial backstop

Tariffs and countermeasures are fracturing the system of globalisation on which the post-Cold War world was built. Prosperity and interconnectedness may break with it. The world stands on the brink.

An economic giant, any combined North American state would be larger than Russia and richer than China, with a GDP of $31.2tn, producing almost twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia

A senior trade advisor who can seem fixated on China, this 75-year-old former university lecturer and Democrat is one of only a few from Trump's first term to serve in his second