China lends Cuba a helping hand
The US and Iran rejected each other’s peace proposals, EU officials are urging governments to avoid excessive support to offset surging energy prices, and the value of buyouts by private equity groups...
7 Apr 10min
Counting the costs of Trump’s immigration crackdown
In a special edition of the FT News Briefing, reporter Guy Chazan explains the cost of US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. We hear from business owners and people affected by the polici...
6 Apr 12min
Swamp Notes: The economic fallout of ‘liberation day’
America’s tariff regime affected all aspects of life from the global economy to the day-to-day of average business owners. In this special episode, the FT’s US Economics Editor Claire Jones explains w...
4 Apr 11min
Robert Armstrong on coining the Taco trade
President Donald Trump fired US attorney-general Pam Bondi, and private credit investors are requesting their money back from Blue Owl Capital at an alarming rate. Plus, the FT’s Robert Armstrong cont...
3 Apr 12min
The shifting geopolitics of Trump’s tariffs
US President Donald Trump updated Americans on the war in Iran, and Chinese government bonds have sidestepped a global debt sell-off since the start of Washington’s conflict with Tehran. Plus, in part...
2 Apr 12min
How a small US business navigated Trump’s tariffs
Foreign central banks have slashed their holdings of Treasuries at the New York Federal Reserve to the lowest level since 2012, and a preliminary estimate showed that Eurozone inflation jumped to 2.5 ...
1 Apr 12min
The rocky legal future of Trump’s tariffs
Swiss lawmakers have assured senior UBS executives that they will water down stringent new rules and the Trump administration took its first step in opening the more than $10tn US retirement marketpla...
31 Mars 11min
How Trump's tariffs ripped up the global trade order
US President Donald Trump has said he wants to ‘take the oil in Iran’ and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island. Uncertainty about what happens next in the war is sending nervousness through glob...
30 Mars 12min
