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 Hello and welcome back to Energy Source, coming to you from New York and Sydney. Fatih Birol, the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold hit a record $3,500 a troy ounce for the first time and the dollar fell on Tuesday, as Donald Trump’s sustained attack on US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell added to fears over the … 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’s global trade war is threatening a corner of America that voted in droves for the Republican president last year: oil-producing North Dakota. It might also upend the president’s plans to boost … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japanese investors offloaded more than $20bn in international bonds as Donald Trump’s tariffs shook markets early this month, in a sign of how the Wall Street turbulence cascaded around the world. Private institutions, including banks … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The lessons of the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have not been fully learned, the International Energy Agency has said, as more than 60 global leaders are set to arrive in … Read more
Helge Lund, the outgoing chair of BP, sat impassively for an hour last Thursday at the company’s annual meeting, maintaining a stony expression as small shareholders took their opportunity to voice polite but firm discontent with the energy major’s performance. Only once, when asked if he was actually spending enough time thinking about BP (he … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Top pension funds are stepping back from competing head-on with private equity groups to buy up companies, instead opting to invest alongside them to secure access to the best deals. Caisse de dépôt et placement … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US Federal Trade Commission has sued ride-hailing app Uber, saying it made “false or misleading” claims about its subscription service, in the latest sign that Donald Trump’s administration is embracing an aggressive stance against … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago Steve Pitstick has been farming in the US Midwest for 51 years, about an hour outside Chicago, the city that grain built. Seven generations … Read more
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