Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister, according to senior European officials.

Musk, far from repudiating the president, got so excited while celebrating Trump’s return that he gave a crowd two straight-armed gestures that looked to some observers like fascist salutes (Musk described this suggestion as “dirty tricks”).

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has put more than $300bn of potential federal infrastructure funding at risk, US investors said, as they grappled with the scale of his move to unpick Joe Biden’s climate agenda.

If the US president takes a more flexible approach, tariffs may end up being used as a bargaining tool rather than end goal

European bank dividends are at their highest levels since 2007, US President Donald Trump froze billions of dollars in federal funding to green infrastructure projects, and Trump said yesterday that the US would impose more sanctions on Moscow if its war in Ukraine doesn’t end soon.

Good morning. Donald Trump had a busy first full day back in the Oval Office, as the US president kicked off massive shifts in the country’s economic infrastructure. Here are the key changes.

Eighteen US states led by New Jersey as well as the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump’s order violated the constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which says that all “persons born or naturalised in the US . . . are citizens of the United States”.

Don Dempsey, head of policy and research at lobbying group Better Medicare Alliance — funded by insurance companies including UnitedHealth Group and Humana — was the leading candidate to be Trump’s top health official at the US Office of Management and Budget, said three people familiar with the matter.

US President Donald Trump said the US would take back the Panama Canal, decrying China’s influence over the important waterway and the high rates being charged to American ships. In his inauguration speech on Monday,

This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘Not everyone will win in Trump’s M&A revival’ Michela Tindera Since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, there has been a lot of talk on Wall Street about the return of animal spirits. People are excited for a deals and M&A comeback.

Donald Trump imposed no new trade tariffs on the first day of his second term, as feared by markets, but the US president did lay out the official blueprint for an “America First Trade Policy”.

Plus, Brookfield finalises a mammoth dividend recap and a British activist investor rattles corporate Singapore