Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rush to get copper into the US ahead of possible tariffs has created shortages and price dislocations for the red metal in continental Europe. The region’s spot market has been hit by a lack … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Big private equity investors are taking advantage of a flood of capital from wealthy individuals to cash out their buyout fund holdings at higher prices despite the industry’s years-long downturn. Some of the largest evergreen … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chemical companies are putting European assets up for sale as they review their operations in the region to cope with high energy prices and competition from newer plants in Asia and the Middle East. Saudi … 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 Former US military leaders are lobbying Congress to reject a Republican push to repeal billions of dollars in tax credits for critical minerals, warning it would leave the country vulnerable to China. A … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves is preparing to launch a review of the Isa market within weeks in a push to encourage savers to channel more money from tax-free cash into British stocks, according to people familiar with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asian markets this week gave a lively taster of what a full-blown currency war might look like under Trump 2.0. But we are not at panic stations yet, and probably (touch wood) will not be … Read more
The dumping of US assets in favour of Europe’s resurgent markets signals the start of a much longer-term move by pension funds and other big institutional money managers to cut back their huge exposure to dollar investments, say investors. Wall Street banks say they are seeing signs that investors managing trillions of dollars of assets … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A top European Central Bank official has warned that global trade wars threaten to push up inflation in the Eurozone, limiting the room for further interest rate cuts in the currency area. ECB hawk Isabel … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK has imposed sanctions on key figures it says are involved in the trade of Russian oil as it seeks to increase economic pressure on Moscow amid ongoing negotiations for a peace deal … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How bad was the Treasury market turbulence last month? It was “real and significant” and “unnerving”, but it wasn’t chaotic or even “exceptional” — thanks largely to funding markets remaining remarkably durable. That’s the conclusion … Read more