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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. The US dollar store — and its UK cousin the pound shop — is a place for cash-conscious shoppers to get cheap-as-chips basics. But sometimes it’s the store itself that comes at a knockdown price. … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from New York. Shale executives have warned that Donald Trump’s trade policies … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asian, European and North American countries have put Donald Trump on notice of possible retaliation against his 25 per cent car tariffs, threatening to ignite a full-blown global trade war. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British Steel has said it could close its two blast furnaces as early as June, in a move that puts more than 2,000 jobs at risk, after failing to reach an agreement with the government … 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. Yesterday afternoon US President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on imported cars, to go into effect … Read more
You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Government borrowing is the biggest issue in finance today. Governments around the world are addicted to debt. The sovereign debt levels globally have just grown exponentially. In the case of the developed countries, the average ratio of public debt to GDP is now back to where … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Brazilian entrepreneur nicknamed the “Egg King” is expanding into America through a billion-dollar acquisition, at a time when prices have surged as Avian flu ravages the country’s flocks of laying hens. Global Eggs, … 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’s state-backed pension scheme said its plans to invest 30 per cent of its portfolio in private markets by 2030 was “not a guarantee”, arguing it would not compromise on value to meet the target. … Read more
President Donald Trump has designs on potential rare earth resources in Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Greenland. But one company says it has developed a smarter way to access critical minerals needed for military drones, wind turbines and electric vehicles. At a plant on Belfast Harbour in Northern Ireland, Ionic Technologies, a unit … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A spate of unexplained blazes and explosions at oil and gas pipelines in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta is threatening the country’s oil production and has spiralled into a national political dispute. At least three fires … Read more