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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 Trade economists have poured scorn on the crude methodology used by Donald Trump to calculate the list of “reciprocal” global tariffs imposed by his administration. Under the US president’s plan set out on…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Liberation Day” has quickly turned into Libation Day for many Wall Street analysts, who are being forced to take Donald Trump both seriously and literally. The tariffs announced went far further than anyone had expected….

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU is ready to retaliate against Donald Trump’s 20 per cent tariffs but will first seek to negotiate a deal, the president of the European Commission said as she warned the world would “massively…

US presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and George W Bush have used the White House Rose Garden to celebrate significant moments in America’s drive to liberalise the global economy.  But on Wednesday, Donald Trump chose the venue to announce steep new tariffs on all imports with extra penalties for many of America’s top…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deloitte has asked a US judge to throw out demands that it compensate shareholders who lost money in the collapse of one of the country’s largest nuclear power projects, in a case that has exposed…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Nato could play a key role assisting a proposed European military mission to guarantee a peace deal in Ukraine under plans being sketched out by a coalition of Kyiv’s western allies. Nato’s command…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Americans were told reciprocal tariffs would be simple. “Reciprocal, that means they do it to us, and we do it to them,” said President Donald Trump on Wednesday. “Very simple, can’t get any simpler than…

Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime threatens upheaval for the likes of Apple, Amazon and other US companies that rely heavily on manufacturing in China and other countries now targeted for extra levies. The US president’s extra tariffs, due to come into effect within days, impose a universal 10 per cent levy on all countries. But…

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