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• FirstFT: Ukraine prepares to hold elections

  11-02-2026 12:15 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Activist hedge fund Elliott Management builds LSE stake and House votes down Trump measure
  
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• The US consumer is slowing

  11-02-2026 07:30 via ft.com
  But only a little
  
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• EU should focus on competitiveness not crises, says Sweden

  11-02-2026 07:00 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: Why the EU’s carbon trading system is not obsolete after all
  
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• US House votes down tariff rule in rebuke to Trump

  11-02-2026 06:35 via ft.com
  Lawmakers reject proposal by Republican leadership that would have blocked votes to challenge president’s trade policy
  
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• FirstFT: Ukraine plans spring elections

  11-02-2026 06:32 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: ‘Buy European’ push and Syria’s untapped gas reserves
  
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• Turkey’s soap opera boom threatened by dramatic inflation

  11-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Dizi television dramas popular across the world are a parable of country’s broader economic woes
  
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• Swedish PM ‘very sceptical’ of French push to Buy European

  11-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Protectionism cannot be a recipe for European success, says Ulf Kristersson
  
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• How Europe can escape an economic impasse

  11-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The continent needs a unified corporate framework open to companies of all sizes and sectors
  
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• High inflation punctures Turkey’s TV soap bubble

  11-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Dizi television dramas popular across the world are a parable of country’s broader economic woes
  
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• Trump threatens to block opening of new border bridge with Canada

  10-02-2026 18:57 via ft.com
  Move by US president escalates tensions already heightened by Ottawa’s auto deal with China
  
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• Emerging economies shine despite US volatility

  10-02-2026 18:48 via ft.com
  For the rally to endure, developing markets need to build on their resilience
  
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• Goldman Sachs CEO says Trump’s populist policies should aid growth

  10-02-2026 18:15 via ft.com
  Upbeat assessment ahead of elections contrasts with traditional Wall Street preference for minimal intervention
  
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• Trump plans to spare Amazon, Google and Microsoft from next wave of chip tariffs

  10-02-2026 15:00 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter, some US lawmakers are calling on Howard Lutnick to step down over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
  
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• The fight between staff and hawks inside the BoE

  10-02-2026 13:30 via ft.com
  The central bank has lifted the lid on internal arguments. Also in this newsletter, is Kevin Warsh a hawk or weathervane?
  
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• FirstFT: Howard Lutnick under pressure to resign

  10-02-2026 12:37 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Macron calls on Europe to capitalise on its ‘Greenland moment’ and Cuba’s fuel crisis
  
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• Pricing the known unknowns from Japan’s election landslide

  10-02-2026 10:49 via ft.com
  What a stronger political mandate means — and doesn’t mean — for growth, inflation and financial markets
  
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• Pimco on Japan’s election: Pricing the known unknowns

  10-02-2026 10:49 via ft.com
  What a stronger political mandate means — and doesn’t mean — for growth, inflation and financial markets
  
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• No, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t trigger the 2008 subprime meltdown

  10-02-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  A Bear Stearns mystery solved
  
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• Bangladesh secures tariff-free rate on some clothes sales to US

  10-02-2026 09:59 via ft.com
  Deal offers world’s second-biggest garment exporter an advantage over competitors in India
  
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• Fix the EU economy with ‘protection, not protectionism’, says Macron

  10-02-2026 07:00 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: European countries perceived as more corrupt
  
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• EU-US tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over, says Macron

  10-02-2026 07:00 via ft.com
  French president calls on bloc to take the necessary steps to become a true global economic power
  
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• FirstFT: Starmer defies call to quit as UK prime minister

  10-02-2026 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Russian army casualties and US tariff carve-outs for tech
  
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• US plans Big Tech carve-out from next wave of chip tariffs

  10-02-2026 00:27 via ft.com
  Exemptions would be based on chipmaker TSMC’s US investment commitments, officials say
  
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• FirstFT: Sanae Takaichi targets changes to Japan’s constitution after election landslide

  09-02-2026 22:44 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years, and Thai conservatives’ election win buoys markets
  
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• Shipping giants have learned the right lessons from past storms

  09-02-2026 14:48 via ft.com
  Companies should be able to navigate expected losses after shoring up balance sheets while times were good
  
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• Shipping giants have learned right lessons from past storms

  09-02-2026 14:48 via ft.com
  Companies should be able to navigate expected losses after shoring up balance sheets while times were good
  
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• How CEOs are grappling with the geopolitics of trade

  09-02-2026 13:31 via ft.com
  Companies are trying to protect themselves against unknown unknowns
  
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• FirstFT: Stocks rally in Japan as Takaichi wins landslide

  09-02-2026 11:43 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: regulators probe private equity’s auditor investments and European banks find their mojo
  
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• Pick-up in Japan wage growth paves way for near-term rate increase

  09-02-2026 09:30 via ft.com
  Even dovish policymakers signal they want another tightening soon
  
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• EU failing to implement economic fixes as single market withers

  09-02-2026 07:00 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: Antitrust chief urged to watch Netflix-Warner Bros deal
  
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• FirstFT: Starmer’s premiership hangs in the balance

  09-02-2026 06:30 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: US visa denials and EU common deposit insurance
  
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• Asia’s democratic differences under the spotlight

  08-02-2026 19:15 via ft.com
  Japan digests election results, Hong Kong protester Jimmy Lai sentenced and Bangladeshis vote in a pivotal election
  
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• No easy end to easy money

  08-02-2026 14:00 via ft.com
  Kevin Warsh won’t be able to fix the Fed without a responsible Congress and president
  
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• The downside of staving off recessions

  08-02-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Long periods of expansion create fiscal, financial and productivity risks
  
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• Economists reject Kevin Warsh’s claim that AI boom will enable rate cuts

  08-02-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  FT-Booth Survey shows scepticism of productivity gains forecast by Trump’s pick as next Fed chair
  
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• India embraces free(er) trade

  08-02-2026 03:13 via ft.com
  Narendra Modi’s government pushes historic opening of traditionally insular economy
  
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• Buy European and the French paradox

  07-02-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  French ideas are often in the ascendant in EU policy-making just as the country’s government grows weaker
  
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• US and India reach interim trade deal

  07-02-2026 06:52 via ft.com
  Agreement follows détente between Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  
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• The three-way race for Brazil’s rare earths heats up

  07-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  US, EU and China compete for South American nation’s vast deposits of the critical minerals as trade tensions loom
  
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• The disappointing randomness of currency hegemony

  06-02-2026 19:00 via ft.com
  We cannot know what the next dominant currency regime will be because all regimes are different
  
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• French farming posts first trade deficit in nearly a decade

  06-02-2026 17:13 via ft.com
  Poor results prompt warning that France’s traditional strength in agriculture has faded
  
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• FirstFT: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme

  06-02-2026 12:24 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ spending spree and how climate change is leading to a reappraisal of the Winter Olympics
  
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• Do smart people eat better?

  06-02-2026 11:34 via ft.com
  Economists can have a little marginal gain, as a treat
  
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• FirstFT: Big Tech’s AI plans reignite bubble fears

  06-02-2026 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Starmer faces party ire and Maga-aligned European think-tanks
  
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• What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen

  06-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Rules for dining from the world’s foremost foodie economist
  
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• FirstFT: Donald Trump endorses Japan’s Sanae Takaichi ahead of election

  05-02-2026 22:59 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Chinese provinces set lower growth targets for 2026, and Big Tech shares slide again
  
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• UK interest rates held at 3.75% but Bank says future cuts likely

  05-02-2026 18:22 via bbc.com
  The Bank of England has kept borrowing costs unchanged but opened the door to cuts later this year.
  
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• Bank of England holds rates at 3.75% in knife-edge vote

  05-02-2026 18:09 via ft.com
  Central bank awaits stronger evidence that inflation is on track to fall to 2% target
  
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• Bank hints at rate cuts, but don't expect Covid-era mortgage deals

  05-02-2026 17:10 via bbc.com
  The Bank of England may have suggested more rate cuts are on the way, but they are unlikely to go much lower.
  
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• Bank of England holds rates steady at 3.75% in knife-edge vote

  05-02-2026 14:34 via ft.com
  Central bank awaits stronger evidence that inflation is on track to fall to 2% target
  
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