Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump spent time on the campaign trail advocating a weaker dollar, imagining this would be the key to unlocking a great renaissance in American manufacturing. We should give the man his due. Few thought … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors are pouring into silver and platinum as they seek “gold alternatives” and hedges against the US dollar, sending prices for both metals soaring. With the US dollar’s status as a safe haven for global … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Western companies say China is demanding sensitive business information to secure rare earths and magnets, raising concerns about potential misuse of data and exposure of trade secrets. Beijing’s commerce ministry is asking for production details … Read more
For Nkiru Uwaje, co-founder and chief operating officer of trade payments group Mansa, stablecoins are an integral part of her daily corporate life. The tokens, a form of cryptocurrency that acts like cash, account for 90 per cent of business activities at the group, which helps small businesses in Africa, south-east Asia and South America. … Read more
Hopes of a corporate governance reform drive in South Korea have pushed the main stock index to a three-and-a-half-year high, as investors bet a new leftwing government can lift the country’s persistently low valuations. President Lee Jae-myung made corporate governance reform and boosting the stock market pillars of his campaign, promising South Korea’s army of … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun to dismantle rules restricting pollution from power plants as Donald Trump takes aim at green regulations imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden. The EPA on Wednesday … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday after the US defence department authorised dependants of service members in parts of the Middle East to leave the region. Brent crude, the international oil marker, jumped … Read more
In 2006, a small, little-known company named Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, for short — won a NASA contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. At that moment, SpaceX had not yet launched anything to orbit and would not succeed until two years later with its tiny Falcon 1 rocket. … Read more
Night sky observers are being treated this week to a view of a red-tinted full moon — known in June as a “strawberry moon” — a phenomenon that occurs when the moon sits low on the Southern Horizon. This summer, the reddish color is particularly pronounced because the moon is sitting at the lowest position … Read more
The northern lights are fleeting and fantastical. But Elise Wright Knutsen, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oslo, has gotten used to them. “I’m Norwegian, so the aurora is a big thing here,” she said. “You kind of grow up with it happening over your head.” But catching her first glimpse of the aurora … Read more