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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is the Maga movement’s greatest asset and its greatest liability. The US president is a political genius. But he is also, in the memorable phrase, attributed to Rex Tillerson, his first…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China has announced a plan to revitalise domestic consumption as President Xi Jinping’s government battles to reverse weak confidence and deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy. The government will “vigorously boost consumption” and “expand…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s trade war is taking a “significant toll” on the global economy, the OECD has warned, as it cut growth forecasts for a dozen G20 countries. Global growth will slow this year and next,…
Analysis The Latest Russian Missile Is Bad News for NATO Oreshnik is a different beast from its predecessors. By Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at CNA, a nonprofit research and analysis organization based in Washington. German soldiers unload the U.S.-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system in Jasionka, Poland. German soldiers unload the U.S.-made MIM-104…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has lifted its shareholdings in Japan’s five biggest trading houses after negotiating to remove a 10 per cent ceiling for its investment in businesses known for trading everything from noodles to…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphabet is spinning out laser-based internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink network of satellites. Taara is…
Greg Auman NFL Reporter <!–> The 68-team field for the 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament has been revealed, and now comes the fun part: predicting who will advance and who will eventually win the national championship. A No. 1 seed has won the women’s tournament 23 times, including last year, when the South Carolina Gamecocks capped…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. GE Aerospace chief executive Larry Culp received $89mn in pay last year, making him one of the highest-paid executives among the American companies that have reported compensation so far this year. Following GE’s break-up of…
European companies that have added a US listing often do not see an uplift to their valuations, the Financial Times has found, in a challenge to some executives’ claims that a New York stock market presence is a sure-fire route to higher share prices. An analysis of 12 European-listed companies that have added US listings…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s tariffs is complicating the “data-dependent” US Federal Reserve’s efforts to send a clear message about the direction of the economy, economists say. As the Fed prepares to deliver…
