President Trump claims U.S.-China trade talks are underway, despite Beijing's denial and insistence that all U.S. tariffs must be removed before any negotiations can begin, deepening global ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Thursday he agreed with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to continue ...

Finance chiefs in Washington said they are still trying to figure out what Trump wants, as the global economy heads for a ...

Rachel Reeves will meet her US counterpart on Friday as she attempts to make progress on a trade deal during her visit to ...

The West “cannot be agnostic or naive” about where goods are made, the Chancellor has told a gathering of foreign finance ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hinted that the US and South Korea could reach a trade agreement as early as next week, ...

Musk and Bessent’s relationship has been tense at best. The Tesla CEO lobbied hard to land Howard Lutnick as the Treasury ...

Stocks rallied on Thursday, notching their third day of gains in a row. The S&P 500 rallied 2.03%, closing at 5,484.77. The ...

The Chancellor will tell the International Monetary Fund 's spring meeting in Washington that the 'new era of global trade' requires a new system that 'provides security for working people'.

Experts say Bessent didn’t violate any rules and that the customs and conventions around such private talks are murky.

Hegseth’s senior adviser Dan Caldwell, chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary Colin Carroll, and deputy chief of ...