Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Legal and General is one of several shareholders planning to vote against the re-election of BP’s outgoing chair at its annual general meeting on Thursday, in a sign of growing discontent over the oil major’s … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world This week, we witnessed “the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history”, according to Stephen Miller, adviser to Donald Trump. The US president’s U-turn from most of his aggressive trade … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s largest asset manager BlackRock has reported a slowdown in inflows after two record quarters, as the sell-off in financial markets weighed on investor confidence. The New York-headquartered group said it attracted $84bn in … Read more
Two weeks on from the Spring Statement and Rachel Reeves’ declared ambition to “boost the culture of retail investment” in the UK looks spectacularly badly timed. The US president’s quixotic tariff announcements caused big losses for investors, with UK, US and global equity markets plunging, before whipsawing back after Trump announced a 90-day pause on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few weeks ago, an interesting paper was presented at a Brookings conference. We didn’t get around to writing about it then, but it turns out that it was both fascinating and SUPER timely. Here … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shein has secured preliminary approval from the UK’s financial watchdog to float in London, taking the ecommerce company a step closer to a stock market listing. The Financial Conduct Authority has approved Shein’s initial public … 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. This week has felt about three weeks long. Is it too much to ask that not much happens … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump dislikes trade deficits. His attempts to remedy them with tariffs caused stocks and bonds to plunge. On Wednesday, after he rowed back, markets soared again. This mayhem threatens to erode the … 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 a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace There has been justified concern this month that the chaos unleashed on financial markets around the world by the Trump administration’s “liberation … Read more
Surge in coffee prices is testing consumer patience, Lavazza warns