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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Foreign exchange myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. With the rest of FT Alphaville off today, this is now officially going to be a Taiwanese dollar blog. Fortunately for content reasons — and as we expected last week — our favourite Asian currency … Read more
Welcome to FT Asset Management, our weekly newsletter on the movers and shakers behind a multitrillion-dollar global industry. This article is an on-site version of the newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get it delivered every Monday. Explore all of our newsletters here. Does the format, content and tone work for you? Let me … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Warren Buffett announced over the weekend that he will step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the … Read more
The world’s most famous investor says he plans to step down after six decades leading Berkshire Hathaway, and Chinese exporters are turning to third countries to get around 145 per cent US tariffs. Plus, local Nigerian oil companies are starting to replace foreign majors, and Israel calls up reservists to support its expanded operations in … Read more
The US dollar has been in slow decline for around a decade – so says Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard professor, and former chief economist of the IMF. Donald Trump’s trade policies have raised a lot of questions about the future of the dollar – and how its decline could affect the rest of the world’s currencies. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is fair to assume that, had any of the last few chief executives of Barclays bank been asked to sign a letter urging the government to rescind punitive regulations, they’d have jumped at the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s banks are debating whether regulatory ringfences that were set up after the financial crisis should be bulldozed. Demolitionists — led by HSBC — say the rules trap capital that could help the wider economy. … 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 founder and chief investment officer at Gramercy Funds Management Tariff disputes, geopolitical tensions and now a potential US recession. It hardly seems the time to seek out investments in emerging markets given … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The private equity industry is past its peak and faces a massive challenge in selling off trillions of dollars in assets, according to Egyptian industrialist and billionaire investor Nassef Sawiris. Sawiris, who has invested parts … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It has long been an EU aspiration that the euro would rival the US dollar for global dominance, or at least for monetary sovereignty at home. Now, the self-sabotage of Donald Trump’s Washington is a … Read more