EU pushes ahead with sprawling AI regulation
US allies across Europe and the Middle East have condemned Donald Trump’s plans to “take over” Gaza, the US cracks down on a trade loophole, and Disney’s earnings shot up 27% in its financial first qu...
6 Feb 20259min
US companies endure tariff whiplash
Alphabet’s cloud services missed growth expectations last quarter, American companies are scrambling to protect their supply chains in the face of all the back and forth on tariffs, and China is hitti...
5 Feb 202510min
Commercial real estate crawls back
US president Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada are paused for now, commercial property investment is starting to recover from a two-year slump, and Eurozone inflation unexpectedly ticked up ...
4 Feb 202510min
The Trump trade war begins
Donald Trump hit Canada, Mexico and China with steep tariffs on Saturday, and oil and gas groups are relying more heavily on carbon offsets to reach climate targets. Plus, EU governments are exploring...
3 Feb 202511min
Swamp Notes: Trump redefines America’s global role
American foreign aid supports everything from arms sales to HIV treatment. But this week, with the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump suspended nearly all of that aid for 90 days. The FT’s Africa editor Da...
1 Feb 202514min
SoftBank wants a piece of the AI pie
Apple revealed quarterly results that slightly exceeded Wall Street expectations, SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, and the European Central Bank cut interest rates as it wa...
31 Jan 202512min
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
