Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ‘Liberation day’ proved suboptimal for the stock market. The S&P 500’s 4.84 per cent decline was the 23rd biggest since at least 2000, and a larger drop than the one that followed Lehman’s bankruptcy in … Read more
On April 2, in the Rose Garden of the White House, President Donald Trump announced taxes on almost every kind of imported finished goods. Markets plunged as traders fled equities, and even the dollar weakened. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter go over the tariffs and discuss how they will make it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BP chair Helge Lund has announced plans to step down after a bruising tenure in which the oil major abandoned an aggressive shift away from fossil fuels. The company said on Friday that Lund had … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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 … 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 co-founder and chief investment strategist at Absolute Strategy Research Donald Trump has weaponised trade with his “liberation day” tariffs. Up until the announcement, investors had fixated on how the tariff details will … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nineteen ninety five. Me and another asset management grad are in Balls Brothers wine bar after work. We’re discussing the industry with an old sales hand that we’ll call Peter, because that was his name. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. American households are about to take a wild ride through the basics of global economic policy, thanks to their country’s Big Beautiful Leap Forward. Or the Great Leap Onshoreward, if you’d prefer. This … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Activist hedge fund Elliott Management is increasing the pressure on oil refiner Phillips 66, kick-starting a proxy battle calling for “sweeping changes” at the US energy conglomerate. In a draft letter to investors seen by … 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 tariff regime pummelled Wall Street’s most powerful investment groups, many of which had expected just months ago that the president’s policies would fuel a golden age of economic growth and dealmaking. … 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 tariff offensive convulsed global markets on Thursday, with sectors from banking to tech left reeling from the US president’s bid to remake the global economic order. Wall Street stocks sustained heavy … Read more