The bank increased its risk-management probability of an intensified global trade war from 10 to 15 per cent — a scenario it ...

Shell has announced $3.5bn of share buybacks, maintaining its strategy of returning large amounts of cash to shareholders despite a 28 per cent fall in first-quarter profits.

Nigel Farage’s party has secured its fifth MP after it clinched the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes. Thursday’s elections have also delivered the rightwing party’s first mayor, after ...