The Fed ignores Trump’s calls to cut rates
Big Tech earnings season is in full swing, the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady despite pressure from President Donald Trump, and Syria’s new government pressed Moscow about reparations. ...
30 Jan 202510min
Inside the Trump tariff debate
Advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese start-up DeepSeek caused a frantic sell-off of energy and infrastructure shares, and Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is pushing for new universal tarif...
29 Jan 202510min
China’s DeepSeek AI triggers tech sell-off
US tech stocks tumbled after advances by Chinese start-up DeepSeek ignited worries over whether America could sustain its lead in artificial intelligence. Latin American leaders will hold an emergency...
28 Jan 202510min
Can US oil afford to ‘drill, baby, drill’?
Pressure is piling on the European Union to cut back its sustainability agenda, Wall Street may thwart President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom, and the US president unleashes retaliatory tari...
27 Jan 202510min
Swamp Notes: Donald Trump’s ‘vendetta agenda’
Donald Trump has made a lot of enemies over the years. He spent his first week back in the White House going after them — and is reshaping the federal government in the process. The FT’s Washington bu...
25 Jan 202515min
Trump steers the world toward a tax war
A federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, and shares in the leading makers of anti-obesity drugs have dipped. Trump has ordered officials to draw u...
24 Jan 202512min
Trump halts $300bn in clean energy loans
European bank dividends are at their highest levels since 2007, US President Donald Trump froze billions of dollars in federal funding to green infrastructure projects, and Trump said yesterday that t...
23 Jan 202512min
Markets brace for Trump-era volatility
Netflix added a record 19mn subscribers in the fourth quarter, fuelled by live sports. US stocks rallied while currencies swung the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and TikTok-owner ByteDance pl...
22 Jan 202510min
