Largest US egg seller reports soaring profits amid price-fixing inquiry

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The largest US egg seller reported surging profits amid a bird flu epidemic that has pushed prices to record highs, and acknowledged it had been contacted by US authorities investigating price fixing. Cal-Maine Foods reported … Read more

Trump’s justice department to scale back enforcement of crypto cases

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US Department of Justice is scaling back cryptocurrency enforcement, the Trump administration’s latest move that is set to benefit an industry the president has championed. In a memo to justice department employees, … Read more

Quant hedge fund Renaissance suffers steep losses in tariff tumult

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Computer-driven hedge fund Renaissance Technologies was wrongfooted after Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement last week sent shockwaves across global financial markets. The Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund, one of the group’s flagship strategies … Read more

UK considers nationalising British Steel

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government is considering nationalising British Steel, as Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed to do “everything we can to ensure there’s a bright future” for the Chinese-owned steelmaker’s main site. The heavily lossmaking … Read more

Bills and bonds and Treasury basis trades, oh my!

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Yesterday our MainFT colleagues published an important story about some of the US government bond market’s weird behaviour lately, which, unfortunately, quickly got buried by the unending avalanche of other news. US government debt sold … Read more

Investors lose $25bn in leveraged ETFs in sector’s biggest meltdown

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Exchange traded funds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors lost $25.7bn in leveraged exchange traded funds late last week, in the biggest ever meltdown for risky funds that have drawn huge inflows in recent years from retail traders seeking quick returns. The … Read more

Revolut fined €3.5mn over money laundering control failures

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lithuanian regulators have hit Revolut with a €3.5mn fine over failings in its money laundering processes, marking the UK fintech’s largest financial penalty. The Bank of Lithuania — which regulates Revolut’s operations in Europe along … Read more

The S&P 500’s latest ‘Black Monday’ in one chart

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. You’ve consumed financial media (social, antisocial or otherwise) over the past day and a half, and you’ve encountered the phrase “Black Monday”. Yesterday was, admittedly, a pretty wild time. But the S&P 500 closed pretty … Read more