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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 author is chief executive of GTS, a market making and proprietary trading firm The past few years have shown investors that they should expect the unexpected in geopolitics. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Trafigura, Mercuria, Glencore and IXM could reap bumper profits of more than $300mn after shipping record amounts of copper into the US ahead of tariffs on the metal. The commodity traders are at … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India is on track for a record year in initial public offerings after the value of primary listings reached their highest year-to-date level on the back of interest rate cuts and strong domestic demand for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities has bought Morgan Stanley’s electronic options market making business, underscoring how high-frequency trading firms now dominate an industry once ruled by Wall Street banks. Citadel purchased both the underlying business from … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Pentagon is making a $400mn direct investment in a US rare earths producer, in an unusual arrangement highlighting the Trump administration’s determination to break Chinese dominance of critical minerals and bolster domestic supply chains. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Virtu Financial has come out against rival Citadel Securities’ attempts to block the opening of a new US options exchange, as the high-speed trading giant wades into a dispute over market structure that has sucked … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon warned European leaders they have a competitiveness problem and that they are currently “losing” the battle to rival the US and China. “Europe has gone from 90 … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once upon a time, Robinhood merely offered trading in companies with outlandish valuations. Now, the online broker has become one itself. Founder Vlad Tenev is building a fast-expanding empire whose affinity with cryptocurrencies fits the … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Market volatility has dropped to near its lowest levels of the year and stocks are trading at record highs as anxiety over Donald Trump’s tariffs melts away despite the latest escalation of his … 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. Donald Trump has continued to wage his trade … Read more