Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After years in the toilet, European stocks are back. Trump is threatening to withdraw US security guarantees, Europe’s defence spending is ramping up, and the continent’s once-beleaguered industrial champions are newly energised. Also, meme stocks … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Followers of markets may have noticed it is tin hat time. Many are reading the headlines and banking their substantial profits from the past few years. Who can blame them? The early weeks … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global companies have started to drop climate goals from executive pay plans, as the corporate world retreats from ESG initiatives in the face of fierce US opposition and mounting costs. Payouts linked to environmental, social … Read more
The illicit oil trade that is keeping Libya divided
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world European investors in US equities have been dealt a double blow as a slide in the dollar compounds losses on stocks, ending a “virtuous cycle” of share price and currency gains during Wall … 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 has invoked wartime powers as part of a sweeping effort to increase American minerals production and curb the country’s reliance on China for critical resources. The president signed an executive order … 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 directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution Remember the bizarrely menacing Russian video of ice-bound European cities set to a baleful song called “Winter Will Be Long”? It … 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 US has imposed sanctions on two Chinese petrochemicals groups for allegedly importing Iranian crude oil, in the latest salvo of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign on the Islamic republic. The state … Read more
Robert E. Ginna Jr., a founding editor of People magazine, a book editor and a film producer whose 1952 Life magazine article provoked a frenzy by validating the idea that flying saucers might exist and could have visited Earth from outer space, died on March 4 at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. His death … Read more
When interest rates are high people are supposed to think twice about borrowing. When they’re low, they’re supposed to be whipping out the metaphorical (or literal) credit card. This is the central idea underpinning central banks‘ monetary policy fiddling. Of course, central banks only set the short-term interest rate. Bond yields, while anchored by central … Read more