UK businesses urge PM to seal post-Brexit EU free trade deal

Government sets out plan to cut tariffs, with farming and car industry to be protected

Investing in firms with better record on social issues pays, study finds

BlackRock analysis shows investments more resilient during Covid-19 market crash

Germany in recession as coronavirus blights eurozone economies

France and Italy also slide into recession as lockdown measures cut consumer spending and investment

Global trade to fall by record 27% due to Covid-19, says UN

Data reveals pandemic has caused severe decline in supply and demand for products

Global stock markets rise as China-US trade tensions ease

Oil price rises and shares end week on a high despite growing economic damage from coronavirus pandemic

Once again a battle-scarred Britain must find a new role in the world

We celebrate VE Day with the need to forge new trading relationships and with the grotesque economic burden of the coronavirus

UK unemployment to double and economy to shrink by 14%, warns Bank of England

Bank outlines scale of Covid-19 shock in 2020 with forecast for deepest recession in 300 years

‘There is a glimmer of hope’: economists on coronavirus and capitalism

Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal

Inflation collapses around the world amid coronavirus pandemic

Global economy heads for deepest recession since Great Depression as business comes to near standstill

UK government begins transatlantic trade talks with Washington

Increasing links with US will aid recovery after coronavirus crisis, says Liz Truss

After Covid-19, it’s in everyone’s interest to help the world’s poorest countries

Without $90bn in aid we will see soaring conflict, poverty, hunger and global instability. But a relief package is viable, says UN emergency relief coordinator Mark Lowcock

China and Australia: how a war of words over coronavirus turned to threats of a trade war

Canberra’s call for an inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 sparked talk of boycotts from Beijing – but any such move could be harmful to both countries

Global markets recoil as Trump threatens US-China trade war

US president escalates attack on Beijing’s handling of coronavirus pandemic

As eurozone records 3.8% slump ECB chief warns of worse to come

Christine Lagarde says there could be a 15% collapse after record first quarter output fall

World’s stock markets soar on coronavirus treatment hopes

Investors shrug off US growth gloom after promising data from remdesivir drug trial