Economics

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK has suspended import tariffs on 89 products and increased the loan facility for exporters to ease the strain on British businesses following the drastic imposition of US levies. Levies on goods ranging from…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The author is vice-chair at Oliver Wyman and former global head of banks and diversified financials research at Morgan Stanley What will the longer-term financial consequences of Trump’s tariffs be? We may be…

This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Welcome back. Now that Donald Trump has paused his “reciprocal” tariff plans (as predicted in last week’s newsletter),…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is founding partner and head of research at Gavekal Dragonomics A week of tariff trauma has left the world economy not much worse off than it was on President Donald Trump’s…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel bombed one of Gaza City’s main functioning hospitals in the early hours of Sunday, after the country’s defence minister said its forces would expand their new offensive in the shattered Palestinian enclave. The Diocese…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hong Kong has barred a British member of parliament from entering the Chinese territory, adding uncertainty to UK-China ties just as the Labour government seeks to step up bilateral economic relations. Wera Hobhouse, a Liberal…

For Nick Jarmoszuk, an Ohio industrialist, the trade war President Donald Trump has unleashed against China has not come a moment too soon. America’s trade imbalance with the rest of the world was “something that’s been festering for a long time, and it’s a good thing to address”, he said. “The longer you leave it,…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world America under Donald Trump is an emerging market. That’s my takeaway from the last few days of tariff chaos and its fallout.  When I first raised this idea last October, I pointed out that…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bit by bit, one by one, they started to come out.  After days of market mayhem, America’s billionaires finally did something this week that few top bosses have done since Donald Trump took…

Rubble from Israel’s war against Hizbollah is being dumped near the roadside in Lebanon’s capital, part of an opaque process overseen by a local authority dominated by the militant group that underscores the challenges of rebuilding the country. The Dahiyeh Union of Municipalities, the municipal body for Beirut’s southern suburbs, has been allocated millions of…