Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. You might have missed it, but April is “Financial Literacy Month” in the US. On April 1 (yes, really!) the White House released the following statement from Donald Trump: During this National Financial Literacy Month, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Last week, said the head of trading at one brokerage in Tokyo, markets were unsure what they were seeing. Was Donald Trump serious about tariffs or was it brinkmanship? Would there be a sudden … Read more
The UK plans to introduce a lighter regulatory regime for private equity and hedge funds, and Italy may block an EU plan to respond to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Plus, popular ‘private browsing’ apps hosted by Apple and Google may violate American sanctions, and the trade war has triggered the biggest sell-off in the … Read more
Christopher Mahon is head of Dynamic Real Return in Multi-Asset Investing at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In February, the Bank of England updated its estimates for the lifetime losses of the asset purchase facility, the vehicle through which it conducts quantitative easing. Its prediction for APF losses had crept up: from £95bn in September, to £115bn … Read more
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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. We could all really use a calm day in markets today. As of this writing, futures markets suggest … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tether, the world’s most traded cryptocurrency, is considering offering a US-only “stablecoin” if Donald Trump’s administration introduces regulations to encourage new market entrants. Paolo Ardoino, the group’s chief executive, told the Financial Times it was … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Greenpeace has raised the prospect of a fresh legal challenge to two planned UK oil and gasfields after the government signalled support for the projects, despite a court revoking their consent because of … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs risk triggering a large “negative demand shock” in the Eurozone, a senior European Central Bank policymaker said as the ECB weighs an interest rate decision later this … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US presidents, especially Republican ones, like to champion home ownership as an essential component of the American dream. Donald Trump, too, has pushed policies in this vein. But Trump’s quixotic policymaking — particularly … Read more