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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. 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…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government. Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated. On Monday, however, Trump…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Growth in oil demand is expected to slow sharply this year because of the negative impact of US tariffs on trade, the International Energy Agency has warned in its first forecast since Donald Trump’s “liberation day”…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world China’s President Xi Jinping has urged Vietnam to work with Beijing to oppose “unilateral bullying”, in a thinly veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s imposition of high tariffs on trading partners. Xi made the…
The US and China are locked in a dangerous trade stand-off, with the world’s two largest economies trading tit-for-tat blows as Donald Trump demands Beijing seek a deal from his administration. China relies on the US as an almost irreplaceable market for its manufactured goods, but experts warn that Washington should not underestimate Beijing’s capacity…
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 a longtime Silicon Valley investor There is one notable thing lacking in Donald Trump’s declaration of economic and diplomatic war on the world — a strategy for winning. To many…
In mid-February, some of Wall Street’s most powerful investors and business titans — controlling hundreds of billions in personal wealth and trillions in assets — lined up like teenagers before a rock concert. The headliner was Donald Trump. In a cramped Miami Beach auditorium, plutocrats and CEOs waited up to three hours for the president’s…
