• November 2 2025
  Global Economy

  Maverick outsider on track to be mayor of New York City

  UK sets interest rates, London gets its first Lady Mayor’s Show and earnings reports include Ryanair and IAG

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• October 26 2025
  Global Economy

  Trump and Xi meet for key trade talks

  Plus, US president visits Japan on Asia tour, Dutch elections, and US, Japanese and European central banks set rates

  
• October 19 2025
  Global Economy

  A run of significant political elections

  Japan’s Diet could elect a new PM, UK’s Labour will pick a deputy leader and Ireland set to get a new president

  
• October 12 2025
  Chinese politics & policy

  Hostage releases and upbeat US bank earnings herald a better few days

  Plus, bromance brews at the White House, Bolivia holds elections and the IMF and World Bank hold annual meetings

  
• October 5 2025
  Global Economy

  A significant week for hope in the Middle East

  Gaza ceasefire beckons as the anniversary of October 7 attacks is marked and the Nobel peace prize announced

  
• September 28 2025
  Global Economy

  A significant moment for leadership of Japan and UK

  Keir Starmer will deliver a critical speech to his party, while Japan’s election is set to make political history

  
• September 21 2025
  Global Economy

  Starmer, Macron and Trump prepare for high drama at the UN

  UK and France to recognise Palestine, a run of retailer earning reports and a railway date to remember

  
• September 14 2025
  Global Economy

  Trump’s UK state visit poses difficult balancing act for Starmer

  Demonstrations against US president expected in London; Federal Reserve under pressure to cut rates

  
• September 7 2025
  Global Economy

  D-Day looms for French PM Bayrou

  A vote of confidence in France and a tight general election in Norway, while Apple seeks to build momentum at launch event

  
• August 31 2025
  Global Economy

  Crunch time for US economic institutions

  Plus, China’s show of military might, Kim Jong Un returns, UK and US elected officials go back to work

  
• August 24 2025
  Global Economy

  Great power clashes loom over Nvidia and Ukraine

  Plus, second-quarter earnings season wraps up, Germany’s Merz meets Canada’s Carney, US PCE index runs hot

  
• August 17 2025
  Global Economy

  Fed chair Powell to fight his corner at Jackson Hole

  Bankers gather in Wyoming, European heads fly to Washington for vital Ukraine war peace talks, big box retailers report

  
• August 10 2025
  Global Economy

  US-China tariff truce deadline arrives

  Plus, Trump to meet Putin in Alaska to discuss Ukraine deal, a first take on second-quarter GDP figures, and US inflation updated

  
• August 3 2025
  Global Economy

  Further uncertainty expected over Trump’s tariff rollout

  Wave of US trade levies arrive, Bank of England sets interest rates, and Japan observes 80th anniversary of atomic bomb drops

  
• July 27 2025
  Global Economy

  Eleventh-hour US-EU trade talks aim to beat Trump’s tariff deadline

  Plus, tensions over Fed interest rate move, Starmer to talk steel with Trump, and earnings season hits a peak

  
• July 20 2025
  Global Economy

  Trump faces frosty reception on Aberdeen golf trip

  Plus, British PM gets an end-of-term grilling, EU-China summit and the ECB meets to set rates

  
• July 13 2025
  Global Economy

  Wall Street expects glittering earnings despite trade war

  UK chancellor delivers Mansion House speech, Fed issues Beige Book and China releases second-quarter GDP data

  
• July 6 2025
  Global Economy

  Donald Trump’s tariff deadline looms

  Trade talks ahead of July 9 cut-off, Netanyahu meets US president and UK Post Office IT scandal inquiry publishes its first report

  
• June 29 2025
  World

  A week of anniversaries

  US celebrates 250 years of independence, UK prepares for welfare vote and big summer sporting events begin

  
• June 22 2025
  Global Economy

  A key week for Nato and defence deals

  Military alliance members gather in The Hague, EU leaders meet in Brussels and the Korean war passes a milestone

  
• June 15 2025
  Global Economy

  Israel-Iran conflict heightens importance of G7 gathering

  Start of the week dominated by events in Kananaskis, while EU expected to unveil laws limiting Russian fossil fuel imports

  
• June 8 2025
  Global Economy

  G7 reaches its half century in Canada with a focus on Ukraine and tariffs

  A week of anniversaries, a key Westminster spending decision and a knife-edge vote of confidence in Poland’s Donald Tusk

  
• June 1 2025
  Global Economy

  South Korea elects a president as EU rules on Bulgarian euro entry

  Also, a week of decisions on European interest rates, British defence spending and Canadian growth legislation

  
• May 25 2025
  Global Economy

  King Charles to walk diplomatic high wire with Ottawa speech

  Monarch addresses Canadian parliament, Poland’s knife-edge presidential election concludes and US updates on GDP

  
• May 18 2025
  Global Economy

  Brexit set for a reset but with thorny issues kicked into the long grass

  Plus, trade wars set the tone for G7 finance ministers’ gathering in Banff and M&S reports earnings