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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. UK government officials are scrabbling to secure access to critical coal and iron ore supplies to keep Britain’s blast furnaces firing after emergency legislation was passed to keep British Steel afloat. A shipment of coal, … 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 author is vice-chair at Oliver Wyman and former global head of banks and diversified financials research at Morgan Stanley What will the longer-term financial consequences of Trump’s tariffs be? We may be … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has taken control of British Steel after passing emergency legislation on Saturday. Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told MPs that ministers had no choice but to act to ensure the two blast furnaces … Read more
The European Central Bank is widely expected to lower interest rates at its meeting next week, but investors will be more interested in any clues on what an escalating global trade war means for monetary policy later in the year. Markets have moved to price in a faster pace of rate cuts as Donald Trump’s … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. North Sea oil and gas companies have agreed a series of mergers that will allow them to offset billions of pounds of tax liabilities against future profits. In three deals in the past … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Mining myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A remote gold and copper mine beneath a volcano in south-west Pakistan could provide key leverage for trade talks with the US, according to its operator, as Islamabad tries to reduce “reciprocal” tariffs originally set at … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finnish utility Fortum is exploring buying part of its former subsidiary Uniper, three years after suffering multibillion-euro losses as the German gas importer was pushed to the brink of collapse. Fortum, majority owned by the … Read more
The US and China’s dizzying tariff tit-for-tat has spurred Brazil’s agricultural sector and pummelled American farmers, as Beijing looks to Latin America’s largest economy for a swath of goods from soyabeans to beef. Brazil was a major winner in President Donald Trump’s first trade war with China, dramatically expanding its then-narrow lead over the US … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold has enjoyed its best week in five years, surging to record highs as investors rushed to the safety of one of the few havens left in global markets in the wake of Donald Trump’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 Donald Trump’s administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of metal found on the Pacific Ocean seabed, in an effort to counter China’s dominance of battery minerals and rare earth … Read more