China pumps the brakes on Tesla’s autonomous cars
Tesla risks being caught up in the China-US trade war, while US officials head to Saudi Arabia to start peace talks over Ukraine. Indonesia reaches “Opec status” as it dominates the global nickel trad...
18 Feb 202511min
Say hello to the Magnificent 47
French President Macron holds an emergency meeting in Paris with Ukraine’s allies, and a stock index featuring Europe’s largest banks is outpacing the United States’ Magnificent Seven tech giants. Plu...
17 Feb 202510min
Swamp Notes: Trump ices Europe out of Ukraine peace plan
Ukraine is dominating discussions at this year’s Munich Security Conference after a call between Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, which ended with the US president declaring that peace talks ...
15 Feb 202513min
Has meme-stock kid Robinhood grown up?
Arm plans to launch its own chip this year, and Shein’s IPO will likely be delayed after US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on tariff-free imports. Plus, Robinhood has evolved from an app that spra...
14 Feb 202510min
Trump excludes Europe from Ukraine peace talks
European officials are worried about being cut out of a US-Russia peace deal on Ukraine, and US inflation ticked up in January. Plus, China’s leading producer of memory chips is rapidly gaining global...
13 Feb 20259min
Elon Musk gatecrashes OpenAI restructuring
Hong Kong tech stocks are flying high, Elon Musk’s nearly $100bn bid for OpenAI comes with a ton of baggage, and the EU says it will retaliate against US tariffs on European steel and aluminium export...
12 Feb 202510min
Hizbollah’s murky path forward
More than 60 partners have left PwC China after a ban over its audit of failed property developer Evergrande, the FT’s Andy Bounds explains what we can learn from Donald Trump’s 2018 steel tariffs, an...
11 Feb 202510min
US dealmaking slides in 2025
China has imposed retaliatory tariffs on about $14bn of US goods, and US dealmaking has suffered its worst start to a year in a decade. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced €109bn worth of i...
10 Feb 202511min
