Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Zurich Insurance has approached Beazley with a takeover proposal valuing the FTSE 100 group at about £7.7bn, after the Lloyd’s of London insurer rejected a lower bid earlier this month. The Swiss insurer said on … 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 Sir Keir Starmer has said he does not think Donald Trump would use military force to seize Greenland as he warned that Britain would incur “huge damage” from a trade war with the … Read more
The latest twist in The Apprentice: American Carnage is its threat of escalating tariffs on European countries that weirdly don’t think the US should be threatening to invade a Nato ally. The understandable result is that many are talking about Europe’s arsenal of “anti-coercive” measures — perhaps even including the trillions of dollars worth of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU is readying retaliatory tariffs worth €93bn against the US should President Donald Trump go ahead with his threat to impose levies on six member states plus the UK and Norway on February 1 … Read more
Venturing into the icy seas around Greenland can be unforgiving and unpredictable. Steffen Andersen, a seasoned skipper preparing his six-man trawler for a fishing trip along the craggy coast, was in the mood to complain. He had recently hired a 16-year-old local to work with him, but he grumbled that the towering Danish-owned factory ships … 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 President Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to the “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, the Kremlin said on Monday. Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president’s spokesperson, told reporters that Russia is “studying all … 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 The “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of being disrupted by a sharp reversal in the AI boom, the IMF warned on Monday, as world leaders prepared for talks in the Swiss … Read more
European businesses that export to the US could face significant additional bureaucratic headaches if Donald Trump follows through on his threat to slap tariffs on eight individual European countries, trade analysts have warned. The US president has threatened to impose a blanket additional 10 per cent tariff on the eight countries — Denmark, Sweden, France, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US President Donald Trump has linked his pursuit of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize in a message to Norway’s prime minister. Trump told Jonas Gahr Støre in a text message … 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 The writer is an FT contributing editor and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute Thom Tillis, a Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee, showed his colleagues the proper … Read more