Redemption requests from the $82bn Blackstone private credit fund, known as Bcred, rose to 7.9 per cent of its assets in the first quarter, eclipsing a 5 per cent threshold that allows the private ...

Strikes have been concentrated in western Iran and at military and strategic sites in and around Tehran. Israel hit a missile base in northwestern Iran on Saturday, and satellite imagery showed ...

We begin with the Middle East conflict, as Donald Trump said the US will do “whatever it takes” in its operations to topple ...

British premier, after carefully nurturing relations with the US president, makes clear they are at odds over the Iran war ...

Administration to terminate appeals in four cases involving law firms that sued to block measures from taking effect ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was confirmed dead by Iranian officials after US-Israeli air strikes on ...

Oil and gas prices surged and global stocks fell on Monday as the widening conflict in the Middle East disrupted energy ...

The private equity group that bought WHSmith’s high street business is considering shutting about 80 stores and cutting ...

Still, Macron has recognised France’s deterrent is indispensable for Europe’s defence. The alternatives of an EU deterrent or national races for the bomb would be worse. Regrettably, Europeans can no ...

Since this is a leveraged buyout without leverage, AES can probably keep its credit rating intact, happily for the private equity masters of the universe. While investors might have expected more, ...

Lebanon has been plunged back into war with Israel after Hizbollah intervened in the US-Iran conflict on the side of Tehran. Israeli strikes have pounded the country and sent thousands fleeing from ...

Nearly 50 years ago, I began my journalistic career covering cocoa farming in Ghana for the FT. A fortnight ago, I returned ...