The biggest US rate rise in almost 30 years
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark policy rate by 0.75 percentage points for the first time since November 1994, and the European Central Bank says it will speed up work on a new policy tool to ...
16 Jun 202210min
A make-or-break meeting for the WTO
The World Trade Organization is facing a credibility crisis during its first meeting since 2017, the increased value of the US dollar is hurting American companies, and Ukraine lays out a weapons shop...
15 Jun 20229min
Bad news bears (market)
US stocks dipped into bear market territory, two major cryptocurrency players blocked withdrawals, and British prime minister Boris Johnson published legislation to make sweeping changes to trading ru...
14 Jun 20228min
FT Weekend: The rich interior lives of pigs
This week, we explore new scientific research behind: pigs! They have far more sentience and complexity than we give them credit for. Chief features writer Henry Mance joins to discuss how pigs and ot...
11 Jun 202230min
ECB to raise interest rates for first time since 2011
US consumer prices are set to have registered another large monthly advance, the European Central Bank has paved the way for a series of rate rises, and China is offering coronavirus vaccine insurance...
10 Jun 202210min
SEC chair reviews ‘uneven’ US equities market
The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission has outlined plans to overhaul what he described as an “uneven” and unfair US equity market; pain in the US municipal debt market has started to ...
9 Jun 20229min
Ukraine’s president: ‘Stalemate is not an option’
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a stalemate in the war with Russia was ‘not an option’, and the London Metal Exchange has been hit by two lawsuits over the nickel short squeeze fiasco in ...
8 Jun 20228min
Boris Johnson’s bruising no-confidence vote
Boris Johnson on Monday night survived a bruising no-confidence vote, and Elon Musk’s legal team has written to Twitter threatening to abort his $44bn acquisition. Plus, the FT’s Kiran Stacey reports ...
7 Jun 202210min
