The Swiss town of Davos will this week host what amounts to an exclusive watch party for the season premiere of Donald Trump’s second term. The annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in the alpine resort each January,

Despite struggles, the UK still has all the ingredients for growth. Davos 2025 is an opportunity to remember that, writes Chris Hayward.

We are closing our live coverage of the 2025 Word Economic Forum in Davos. Goodbye. Al Hassaina Mosque on December 3, 2021, and the mosque after its destruction in an Israeli strike during the war, in Gaza City, January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Mahmoud Al-Basos

Hi there, it’s Ed Stapley, a reporter in London on a stint with Pursuits, and one of the most exhilarating times of the year is here: the World Economic Forum’s 55th annual meeting in Davos. Global leaders are packing their bags for a busy week of meetings, interviews and discussions happening Jan. 20-24.

Welcome to CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news, views and action on day 3 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. The World Economic Forum officially began on Monday, but it's Tuesday when the event really kicks off.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to address global inequality.

Anil Agarwal, founder and chairman of Vedanta Group, acquired the historic Riverside Studio in London in 25. Post the acquisition, Riverside Studios has been named Anil Agarwal Riverside Studios Trust.

Trump had a clear message for business leaders in his address to the World Economic Forum.

In a major growth speech in Oxfordshire, Reeves said that a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport was "badly needed," adding it would boost investment, support economic expans

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”

The Government's revised tone about the UK's economic prospects - deployed in Davos and across the airwaves - has been music to the ears of my peers in the City.