Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US will monitor and approve payments to Venezuela from the proceeds of oil sales via an offshore account in Qatar, as Washington fleshes out how it intends to manage affairs in Caracas … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US federal officials are working on a plan to “draw down” the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota if state officials grant access to local jails, Donald Trump’s border tsar … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK productivity growth has been in the doldrums for years. In November, the Office for Budget Responsibility finally gave up waiting for improvement and built long-term weakness into its official fiscal forecasts. Dead on cue, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SAP shares are on track for their biggest one-day drop since 2020 after Europe’s largest software company spooked investors over whether its cloud computing business can sustain its rapid growth. The German group on Thursday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has been straining for some time against the idea that Tesla should be seen as a carmaker. Rather, as the first all-purpose robotics company, its future lies in equipping and running a global … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All governments decay eventually. What distinguishes Keir Starmer’s is the speed with which the necrosis has set in. After little more than 18 months in office, it already resembles the last months of Rishi Sunak’s … Read more
Crude exports to Havana are drying up, according to Kpler, amid US blockade of Venezuela and pressure on Mexico
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Central banks’ purchases of gold unexpectedly declined 20 per cent last year as investment demand soared, highlighting how funds and private investors have increasingly become the key driver of bullion’s record-breaking rally. Purchases by central … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Copper led a blistering metals rally on Thursday that also pushed prices of gold and silver to record highs, as investors pour into the metals at an unprecedented pace amid concerns about the dollar and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s two largest memory-chip makers have said they will increase capital spending “substantially” this year as they expect the AI boom to exacerbate the shortage of semiconductors. But Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix warned … Read more