Global trade at risk as insurers suspend cover following Iran conflict Insurance More than half of the world’s largest maritime insurance firms are set to cease covering war risks for ships entering the Persian Gulf after conflict broke out in the Gulf region, following the US and Israel’s launch of strikes on Iran on Saturday. As of Thursday, seven members of the City-based International Group of Protection [...]
Protectionism is economic cowardice. Britain must not fall into Trump’s trap Opinion Brexit is our new reality, but we must harness it to expand global trade, not retreat inwards like Trump, says Geoffrey de Mowbray.
Sadiq Khan to host first-ever mayoral London-Africa business summit Politics Sadiq Khan has unveiled plans to host the first-ever mayoral London-Africa business summit next year in a bid to deepen trading ties with the continent. According to the mayor, the summit will bring together entrepreneurs and investors, state officials, trade groups and stock exchanges from across the continent, with the aim of promoting London as [...]
Sadiq Khan: Why I’m leading the first trade mission to Africa by a London Mayor July 15, 2025 Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanising region. Forging closer ties could be a boon for London businesses, writes Sadiq Khan.
Trump tariff policy in tatters after being ‘declared invalid’ by US court May 29, 2025 Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff plans have been thrown into doubt after a court said the US President’s executive orders under which they were introduced were “declared to be invalid as contrary to law.” The US Court of International Trade found that the president lacked the authority to use emergency economic powers legislation when he [...]
Trump’s Gilded Age American dream shows he is no historian April 28, 2025 You can’t recreate the past in a global economy, yet Trump's Gilded Age fantasy will not abate, writes Eliot Wilson.
Why the Trump tariffs have left the UK scrambling… April 2, 2025 Nature abhors a vacuum, or so they, or potentially Aristotle, once said. During weeks like this, it feels more accurate to say it’s the news which is doing the abhorring. Speculation has been, understandably, rampant as to the nature, variety, and impact of the tariffs the US President Donald Trump is expected to introduce on [...]