On Monday, Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US president, making his vows over his mother’s Bible and another used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The ceremony at the US Capitol will feature country music singers Carrie Underwood and Lee Greenwood, who sells a $59.99 Bible endorsed by the president-elect.

Scott Bessent also tells US senators in heated confirmation hearing that he backs tougher sanctions on Russian oil

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the US on Monday. Last week, senior Republicans revealed that he wants to issue a large number of executive orders in the first few days of his administration.

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

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.

US president-elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out military force to take Greenland. But America’s military presence there has long dwarfed the handful of ships, dog sled patrols and single surveillance plane operated by the Arctic island’s ...

Donald Trump’s presidency might have some more surprising negative consequences for Europe: His announcement of mass deportations could lead to a surge of migration to the EU, writes Laura Dubois.

Outlook: Investors are still not pricing in enough risks in emerging markets from the fallout of a new US-China trade war, writes Manik Narain of UBS. We have a busy day ahead with data releases and Wall Street earnings:

They discuss Donald Trump’s threat to raise punitive tariffs on Canadian imports and how to respond to his suggestion that Canada should become the US’s 51st state. Clip: Global News Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen,

Pro-crypto investors spent millions to re-elect Donald Trump to the US presidency, after he told voters he wanted to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”. As the second Trump administration begins, what does the crypto sector want most? And, what are the risks if they get it?

There’s a lot of concern about guns, but it’s Canada who has a concern that unregulated gun traffic is coming in from the States to Canada. So we’ve got our quarrels about the border that in some sense are more serious than Trump’s. So it all looks like pretext to me, either as a prelude to a negotiation or there’s something else going on.

The president-elect and his family have a direct and potentially lucrative stake in the sale of a cryptocurrency product that surged in value in the hours after going on sale, days before his inauguration.