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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anthony Albanese has ridden a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to win a landslide second term as Australian prime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. China’s imports of US liquefied natural gas have completely stopped for more than 10 weeks, according to ...

Simply sign up to the EU trade myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. European beauty groups including L’Oréal, the world’s biggest, have lobbied the EU to remove American cosmetics from the ...