Europe’s battery darling runs out of juice
The S&P 500 hit a record high, Europe’s biggest hope for dominance in EV batteries is struggling to hang on and the Bank of England held interest rates steady. Plus, the FT’s Brooke Masters explains w...
20 Sep 202411min
The Fed’s first rate cut in 4 years
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate easing began with a half-point cut, and the UK’s financial watchdog has stepped up pressure on banks to offer more attractive interest rates on deposits. The FT’s M...
19 Sep 202410min
Solar energy’s moment in the sun
BlackRock and Microsoft are launching a $30bn data centre fund to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence, and BP puts its onshore US wind business up for sale. Meta is making teenagers’ I...
18 Sep 20249min
OpenAI launches its next generation of tools
The EU is preparing to provide up to €40bn in new loans for Ukraine by the end of the year, and Boeing is considering temporary furloughs as its machinists continue to strike. The company behind ChatG...
17 Sep 202411min
China’s start-up winter is here
Both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are set to announce interest rate decisions this week. In China, venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures. Plus, Indo...
16 Sep 202411min
Swamp Notes: Harris and Trump meet on the debate stage
On this week’s special episode of Swamp Notes, four FT journalists discuss the historic first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and answer all your most-pressing questions about the US pr...
14 Sep 20241h
Abu Dhabi bids for Germany’s industrial jewel
Investors snapped up consumer staples such as Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive amid concerns over a potential slowdown in the US economy. Abu Dhabi’s oil company Adnoc could offer €14.4bn for German ch...
13 Sep 202412min
UniCredit eyes a new era in European banking
The Italian lender UniCredit has amassed a 9 per cent stake in Commerzbank, and US inflation fell to 2.5 per cent in August. Plus, Argentines are declaring hundreds of millions of dollars of previousl...
12 Sep 202410min
