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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. China’s latest export controls on rare earth minerals could cause shutdowns in automotive production, with stockpiles of essential magnets set to run out within months if Beijing fully chokes off exports. Beijing expanded its export … Read more
Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei made a high-stakes strategy change this week, scrapping a currency policy that has underpinned his battle against inflation but unnerved investors. Milei has relied in part on Argentina’s long-standing strict currency controls to tame chronic price rises. The central bank has dramatically strengthened the peso in real terms, but burned … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The simultaneous surge in the euro and German government bonds this month suggests a “capital flight” to Eurozone’s benchmark debt as a haven from trade war turmoil, say investors. German bonds and the euro typically … 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 managing director at Frontline Analysts and the author of The Unaccountability Machine The bank supervisors of the world are, through speeches and “Dear CEO” letters, warning their charges of the need … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Neil Woodford picked an auspicious week to try a resurrection. The former UK fund manager, whose eponymous investment boutique collapsed in 2019, announced plans for a new “investment strategy platform” — dubbed “W4.0” — on … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Wall Street banks have slashed their targets for the main US share gauge over the past fortnight, as fears grow over the potential economic fallout from President Donald Trump’s trade war. At least … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The meteoric rise of Dubai chocolate has triggered a global pistachio supply crunch, exacerbating a worldwide shortage of the green nut and sending its prices soaring. The bars, a marriage of pistachio cream, shredded pastry … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The UK government is pushing for a domestic buyer to take over the deep-sea mining exploration licences it sponsors in the Pacific Ocean, as it seeks to get ahead in the global race … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Either the mighty US mom-and-pop investor base knows something we don’t, or it’s heading for a bruising. Right now, the amateurs are sitting pretty. Domestic retail investors were, by all accounts, conspicuously active buyers of … Read more
