Lord Bamford and his wife Lady Carole Bamford are among the JCB directors who approved increasing their yearly award - David M. Benett/Getty Images for Positive Luxury The billionaire Bamford family have received an £866m payout from their manufacturing company JCB despite a slump in sales. The payout to Lord Bamford, the JCB chairman, and his family included £422m in cash and marks a 40pc increase on the previous year’s award. Directors including Lord Bamford, his wife and Graeme Macdonald, JCB’s chief ...

Australians are more worried about the Trump administration’s protectionist trade policies than China’s military buildup in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new opinion poll https://t.co/4Ll4spLFBw ...

Let's talk about the dollar for a second. Since April 2nd, basically since the start of the second quarter, we've seen the dollar fall about 6% historically. How big of a move is that.And do you see that as a potential warning sign for equity investors. Yeah, clearly the the decline in the dollar here reflects this loss of confidence in US trade uh security and and perhaps even fiscal policy because you also see a bit of a divergence between the dollar index and rate differential. I think that reflects this ...