For decades, trade and trade policy has been an economic and political backwater - decidedly boring, seemingly uncontroversial. 

Donald Trump has announced a 10% trade tariff on all imports from the UK - as he unleashed sweeping tariffs across the globe.

Elon Musk has called reports that he will leave his government role in the coming months "fake news".

The owners of New Look, the high street fashion chain, are ploughing £30m of fresh equity into the business as they seek to accelerate its digital transformation.

A pack of private equity firms are battling to win control of MyDentist, the UK's biggest provider of NHS dental services.

An online travel content platform backed by a fund which counts the England Test cricket captain Ben Stokes among its investors will this week unveil a $7m (£5.4m) funding injection.

Heathrow bosses were warned its power supply was vulnerable less than a week before the major outage in March, a committee of MPs has heard.

There are more billionaires than ever before - and Elon Musk is the richest of them all, according to Forbes' latest billionaires list.

"Liberation Day" was due to be on 1 April. But Donald Trump decided to shift it by a day because he didn't want anyone to think it was an April fool.

Major developers will only deal with one regulator under planning reforms which ministers say will "rewire the system" to get Britain building - all while protecting the environment. 

If China is known as the world's factory, then the province of Guangdong is the engine room.

Major car manufacturers and two trade bodies are to pay a total of £461m for "colluding to restrict competition" over vehicle recycling, UK and European regulators have announced.

A household energy supplier has failed, weeks after it attracted attention from regulators.

Harrods is urging lawyers acting for the largest group of survivors of abuse perpetrated by its former owner to reconsider plans to swallow a significant chunk of claimants' compensation payouts in fees.

The first of April marks the turn of the financial year as well as Fool's Day, but the cost of living increases arriving this month are no joke. 

The first chair of the parliamentary watchdog established after the MPs expenses scandal is in the frame to become the inaugural head of English football's new regulator.

Sir Keir Starmer has said US-UK trade talks are "well advanced" ahead of tariffs expected to be imposed by Donald Trump on the UK this week - but rejected a "knee-jerk" response.

Many household bills are rising from today - ranging from energy prices and council tax to mobile phone contracts and broadband.

For those who're on modest means, the cost of the licence fee going up by £5 on 1 April of all days is a bit of a bad joke.

Here is a number to lodge in your brain in the coming weeks and months: 48%.