Threats to Middle East crude production ‘highest since Gulf war’

The bigger unknown remains what chairman Jay Powell will signal about the path of monetary policy

UK officials contact the £275bn LGPS asking for a switch into passive management

Permission to let the charity ship dock came only after other EU countries agreed to take in some of the asylum seekers

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Tehran and said the strikes were not launched from Yemen.

Kingdom considers whether to ask fellow Opec countries to help calm markets after attack

Regulators will question representatives of digital currency over threat to financial stability

This week has seen the biggest swing from momentum stocks to cheap value stocks since the 2008 bank bailouts. But it isn’t likely to last.

Three hundred years ago, after King James II had suspended Parliament and tried to rule alone, the pendulum of power swung in the British Isles. In the revolution that swept him aside, the monarchy, once supreme, ceded powers to lawmakers, gradually rendering itself an ornament in a system increasingly controlled by Parliament.

Attack on two Aramco facilities is the latest in a series targeting the kingdom’s oil assets