Payments provider Global Payments has struck a $24.2bn cash-and-stock deal to buy rival Worldpay from GTCR less than two years after the private equity group bought a majority stake in the company. As ...

UnitedHealth shares plunged 20 per cent in pre-market trading on Thursday after the US insurance company slashed its annual profit forecast. The company said it expected net earnings per share this ...

China could replace the US as the world’s dominant energy power as Donald Trump’s trade war rattles American oil producers and Beijing extends its cleantech lead, analysts have warned.

The renewable energy source is quietly gaining popularity even as Trump pursues his ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda ...

Blackstone president Jonathan Gray has warned that the US economy faces the risk of a recession unless Donald Trump can rapidly strike trade deals, becoming the latest Wall Street boss to ratchet up ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Two disputatious tribes are currently arguing about the outlook for UK tech: call them the Fullies and the Empties, depending on whether they view a glass as half-full or half-empty.

The late Peruvian Nobel laureate, who died this week, was a virtuoso storyteller and a visionary interpreter of his continent’s dreams. This pick of FT reviews, interviews and features looks back at h ...