Forex

A wave of companies are petitioning for exemptions from the Trump administration’s high levies on foreign-made goods, saying they are hurting business and raising prices.

Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

Readers told us how insurers are raising premiums and, in some cases, cutting back coverage, as climate change shakes up the real estate market.

While growing evidence shows that carbon emissions are harming the economy, the journal Nature found that an outlier paper had deep flaws.

The scores aimed to predict a property’s risk from fires, floods and storms, but some in the real estate industry as well as homeowners have called them inaccurate.

Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries.

The plan presented by the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, called for spending increases and higher taxes on the wealthy and the middle class.

Some experts see a dangerous combination of factors reminiscent of practices that led to previous financial crises.

President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales.

Two people were rescued from a half-sunken boat off the island of Crete on Saturday evening, but 17 others died in the wreck.

Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.

Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.

Venezuelan officials say María Corina Machado will be considered a fugitive if she goes to Oslo, laying bare the risks for the opposition leader.

The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.”

The police said they were searching for three assailants who opened fire, shooting 25 people. A 3-year-old boy was among the dead, while 13 survivors were being treated in the hospital.