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  • A Skechers store in Hong Kong

    Skechers to be taken private by 3G Capital in biggest footwear buyout to date

    California-based shoe brand agrees to $9.42bn deal with investment firm as it grapples with impact of US tariffs
  • Warren Buffett attends the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders' meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

    Business figures pay tribute to Warren Buffett after retirement announcement

    JP Morgan boss says Buffett represents ‘everything good about American capitalism and America itself’
    • Shell and BP logos

      Shell reportedly weighing up merits of making move to buy BP

    • Protestors demonstrate during a May Day Workers Unite! march in Los Angeles, California.

      US jobs market better than expected even as hiring slowed in April

    • Xi Jinping

      China ‘evaluating’ US offer to engage in trade negotiations

    • An oil pump as the sun. rises... or sets

      Revealed: Forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels soar in Trump’s first 100 days

In depth

  • Shipping containers stacked up at port

    LA’s bustling ports hit by Trump tariffs: ‘Everyone in the US will feel this’

  • Illustration of Trump with a volatile stock graph coming out of his mouth

    Trump’s promised ‘golden age’ for the US economy is off to a chaotic start

    Growth in the first three months was challenged by Trump’s overhaul plans, and execution of his tariffs created widespread confusion and uncertainty
  • A businessman working on laptop

    Why you shouldn’t trust everything you read about the US’s ‘fed up’ workforce

    Gene Marks
    Despite rumors of ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘coffee badging’, people know work is work and the perfect job doesn’t exist

    Around the world

    • a woman speaking at podium with hands gestured

      Gold mining suspended in Peru’s north after 13 miners killed

    • Containers are loaded and unloaded from cargo ships in New Jersey

      Trump tariffs deal hammer blow to some Australian businesses but others seize ‘enormous’ chance

    • The TikTok logo surrounded by other app icons on a smartphone screen

      TikTok fined €530m by Irish regulator for failing to guarantee China would not access user data

    • A screenshot of the Australian Institute for Progress's 'Can You Afford the Greens?' election advertisement

      Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland election

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