Increased geopolitical tensions could yet see Oslo rethink its attitude towards Brussels

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discussed the central bank’s decision Wednesday to cut the benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 4.25% and 4.5%, a two-year low, after the Fed cut rates at its two previous meetings.

Plus Brazil’s currency crisis

It’s not just Trump — elections around the world may produce a new crop of net zero critics in 2025

We tend to look at environmental problems in isolation. A holistic approach would be more effective, a new report says. Take tree planting ... people often choose fast-growing commercial species that can have negative effects on biodiversity and water. With native trees instead, the authors said, those negative effects can turn positive.

Trump’s tariff threat has helped to precipitate a leadership crisis

Having reduced rates by a full percentage point since September, officials penciled in just two cuts next year

The policy committee voted unanimously to maintain its policy rate at 2.25%

Central bank has burnt through billions of dollars and lifted rates in bid to prop up real

. . . and private-market bagholders only have themselves to blame