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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 doubled down on his administration’s stand-off with Harvard university with a threat to remove the university’s tax exempt status. His warning came less than a day after the White House said…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pharmaceuticals sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The chief executive of Johnson & Johnson has warned that potential US tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry could lead to shortages of medicines. The industry was excluded from wide-ranging tariffs announced this month, but the…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Off with their heads.” This is the sentence that the Queen of Hearts, the incarnation of monarchical caprice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, adores pronouncing. She might be entertaining. The reality, however, is…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Video: Jamie Dimon urges US to engage with China Donald Trump’s trade war risks eroding the US’s credibility, Jamie Dimon warned, as the JPMorgan Chase chief executive urged Washington to “engage” with Beijing. Dimon said…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some people follow trends; real fashionistas anticipate them. Unhappy earnings from luxury behemoth and bellwether LVMH should therefore trouble discerning investors. The Louis Vuitton owner’s shares fell 7 per cent on Tuesday after poor first-quarter…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone is joining forces with asset management companies Vanguard and Wellington Management in a “strategic alliance” aimed at creating hybrid public and private funds for wealthy individuals and retirees. The three groups said on Tuesday…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hedge fund Elliott Management has built a position worth more than $1.5bn in technology group Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in its first activist campaign unveiled since President Donald Trump’s tariff policy upended markets. Elliott is yet…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has not told the EU what it wants to lift trade tariffs, the European Commission said, after a two-hour meeting between the two sides’ trade negotiators made little progress. EU trade commissioner Maroš…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wall Street’s biggest banks reaped almost $37bn in trading revenues in the first quarter of the year — their best performance in more than a decade — as Donald Trump’s administration unleashed a barrage of…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hermès leapfrogged LVMH to become the world’s most valuable luxury company on Tuesday, after shares in the owner of Louis Vuitton tumbled on the back of disappointing first-quarter results. In a bruising morning for the…
