Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Twenty-five years ago, Bill Gates, then the world’s richest man, announced that he would start giving away his ...

At the start of the year, Fed watchers were concerned about three threats to the central bank in 2025: that Donald Trump would impose stagflationary tariffs, execute an inflationary fiscal policy and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Matt McAllister knows the drill. He has travelled from his home in Fairhope, Alabama to attend Berkshire ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. China’s manufacturing activity contracted by the most since 2023 in April, according to an official survey, in an ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Last week, we wrote a news story on mainFT about $MELANIA, the memecoin launched ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Along with the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.3bn Catholics, the late Pope Francis wrestled with a more ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The reign of Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88, will be remembered for ruthless power struggles and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revolut has secured a UK banking licence, ending a more than three-year tussle with regulators and delivering a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JSW plans to launch its own electric vehicles brand, its chair and family owner Sajjan Jindal has said, ...

Welcome back. Why has US GDP growth so vastly outperformed other rich nations over recent decades? The most common answers to what drives “American economic exceptionalism” are technological ...

James Hulings was sitting 40 feet from Donald Trump at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July when a gunman fired at the former president, injuring Trump’s ear and killing a spectator. But the ...

Next week marks the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany. On May 8 at one minute past 11pm Berlin time, the European theatre of the bloodiest war in human history fell silent. The ...