In the high-tech world of financial markets, the continued use of paper receipts in trade finance looks arcane.

Retailers are bearing the brunt of the U.K.’s economic uncertainty as households pulled back from making big purchases, recent surveys indicated.

The U.S. push to challenge China’s dominance in the production and sale of electric vehicles has at least one weak link: Most of the raw materials needed to make the batteries are dug elsewhere.

Coal is piling up at ports across Europe, depressing both the cost of the fuel and price of electricity.

The tariff cross-fire has been seized as an opportunity by President Tsai Ing-wen, whose government last year started an “Invest Taiwan” campaign to lure companies away from China.

An independent government report on President Trump’s new North American trade deal estimates it will lead to higher car prices for U.S. consumers and a decline in auto sales.

The latest Brexit delay means more uncertainty, frozen investment and lost customers for U.K. manufacturers.

The rising stockpiles of cars, furniture and other goods that helped the U.S. economy boom in 2018 are now poised to cause a hangover this year.

A sharp decline in dry cargo ship freight rates in the first quarter sent more giant ships to scrapyards in Southeast Asia.