April 2025

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The US and China’s dizzying tariff tit-for-tat has spurred Brazil’s agricultural sector and pummelled American farmers, as Beijing looks to Latin America’s largest economy for a swath of goods from soyabeans to beef. Brazil was a major winner in President Donald Trump’s first trade war with China, dramatically expanding its then-narrow lead over the US…

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Some of the world’s biggest pension funds are halting or reassessing their private market investments into the US, saying they will not resume until the country stabilises after Donald Trump’s erratic policy blitz. The moves…

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Workhuman, an Irish tech company, has built a $1.2bn revenue business out of what chief executive Eric Mosley calls the “core human need to be appreciated and the corresponding need to express gratitude”. It might…