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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a crowded field for the many Nigerian fintech start-ups competing for a slice of the market in Africa’s most populous nation, making it difficult to stand out. But that is not the case … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a professor emeritus at the Stern School of Business at New York University and senior economic strategist at Hudson Bay Capital The rise in long-term rates around the world is worrying finance … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investment in fossil fuels will fall this year for the first time since the Covid pandemic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), led by a contraction in the oil sector where a sharp drop … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US President Donald Trump’s trade war presents an even tougher challenge for emerging market policymakers than the Covid-19 crisis five years ago, a top official at the IMF has warned. Gita Gopinath, the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Mining myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Cobalt Holdings has scrapped its move to list in London, just weeks after announcing a planned $230mn share offering backed by leading investors including Glencore. The metal investment company said on Wednesday that it would “not … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Following a bit of a wobble around tariff shenanigans, corporate bond spreads are tight once more. The average single-B US corporate bond yields around 3.4 per cent more than US Treasuries — around 1.8 per … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Steel again. It’s always steel. The proximate cause of Donald Trump’s decision to double steel and aluminium tariffs on Wednesday morning to 50 per cent — one of the few recent duty increases … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Until recently, companies have been loath to go public at a price below their last private valuations. But the stigma is easing. With the market for public listing in the US still shaky, companies looking … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU is pressing China to loosen restrictions on exports of rare earths because of an “alarming situation” for the bloc’s car industry, with production lines in danger of grinding to a halt. European trade … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BlueCrest Capital Management, the hedge fund turned family office founded by billionaire Michael Platt, has gained more than 28 per cent so far this year after betting on a weakening US dollar. Platt is bearish … Read more