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In mid-February, some of Wall Street’s most powerful investors and business titans — controlling hundreds of billions in personal wealth and trillions in assets — lined up like teenagers before a rock concert. The headliner was Donald Trump. In a cramped Miami Beach auditorium, plutocrats and CEOs waited up to three hours for the president’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US government debt rose on Monday as investors scooped up Treasuries following a rout last week driven by concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The 10-year Treasury yield, which sets government borrowing costs and underpins … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp helped give it “monopoly power”, the US Federal Trade Commission told a court on Monday at the start of a blockbuster trial that could force the $1.5tn tech giant’s … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world America’s risky corporate borrowers have been shut out of the bond market since Donald Trump’s tariff blitz, in a freeze that is reverberating across Wall Street and which threatens a tentative rebound in … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Steven Kamin was previously head of international finance at the Federal Reserve and is now senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In the wake of President Trump’s initial salvo of broad-based tariffs, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Leda Braga’s Systematica Investments, one of the world’s best known computer-driven hedge funds, is suffering its worst ever losing streak in its flagship fund, as the market turmoil triggered by US President Donald … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A common complaint from Wall Street bosses is that investors don’t give proper credit for the vast amounts of money that rolls in from flipping shares and bonds. Goldman Sachs’ windfall from equities trading shows … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former fund manager Neil Woodford is planning to launch a service offering his stockpicking strategies to investors for a fee, just six years after his eponymous fund group collapsed. Woodford wrote in his financial blog … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sidara has made a £242mn offer to buy Wood Group less than a year after walking away from a £1.5bn bid for the crisis-hit UK oil services and engineering business. Wood said on Monday that … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Global equity markets rebounded on Monday despite US warnings that a tariff reprieve for some consumer electronics would be temporary, as investors hoped tech groups and American consumers might be spared the worst … Read more