Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina has raised $1bn from international investors in a vote of economic confidence for libertarian president Javier Milei seven years after the country last tapped global capital markets. The peso-denominated sovereign bond, issued under Argentine … 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 Federal Reserve officials have warned that the loss of the US’s safe-haven status triggered by President Donald Trump’s global trade war could have “long-lasting” effects on the country’s economy. Minutes from the Federal … 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 JD Vance has hailed the arrival of cryptocurrencies into the US economy’s “mainstream”, vowed to establish “pro-innovation” rules for digital assets, and praised the crypto billionaires who backed Donald Trump’s White House bid … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shein is considering swapping London for Hong Kong as the location for its long-planned stock market listing 18 months after it fired the starting gun on the flotation process. The fast-fashion group is turning its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Government bond markets should be seen, but not felt. These giant pools of capital are meant to move slowly. Japan, home to one of the biggest and usually most boring of all, is bucking that … 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 The US has opened the door to Americans purchasing crypto tokens in their retirement accounts, underscoring how Donald Trump is taking a far more tolerant approach to digital assets than his predecessor Joe … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A group of large pension funds has demanded that Elon Musk commit to work at least 40 hours a week at Tesla, calling for corporate governance reforms to address a “crisis” at the carmaker. The … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A stablecoin is a stablecoin, much like a cigar can be just a cigar. But which non-crypto thing does it most closely resemble? A bank deposit? A money-market fund? A cash ETF? Over on Unhedged, … 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 the co-founder of Ethereum and chief executive and founder of Consensys, a blockchain software company The modern financial system is undergoing a foundational stress test. Decades of globalisation combined with increasingly fragile … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence chatbots, cloud storage platforms and financial systems all depend on data centres that operate round the clock. These facilities underpin the digital economy where even brief interruptions can have far-reaching consequences. That means … Read more