Economy news

• Sorry Carney, the world does need a great power with better manners

  22-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Calling for closer EU-Canada ties without pooling sovereignty is an abdication of European responsibility
  
  Read more

• French central bank head warns country at risk of being ‘strangled by interest rates’

  05-10-2026 18:56 via ft.com
  Emmanuel Moulin says France can still reassure bond investors despite ‘serious and worrying’ market moves in recent days
  
  Read more

• ‘Very sensible’: Business warms to Badenoch’s pitch

  05-10-2026 18:16 via ft.com
  Executives left unconvinced by Andy Burnham’s plans are signalling that they are prepared to give the Tories a second chance
  
  Read more

• Burnham’s Budget must not be overshadowed by the OBR

  05-10-2026 17:00 via ft.com
  Rather than being buffeted by the official forecasts, Number 10 should seek to turn them to their advantage
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Germany and France agree on last-resort tool against trade threats

  05-10-2026 15:32 via ft.com
  Berlin on board with ‘second-strike weapon’ to deter threats over key supplies such as exports of Chinese rare earths and magnets
  
  Read more

• Trump’s diesel export coercion will not strengthen the US

  05-10-2026 13:35 via ft.com
  The demand-destroying response to the 1973 Arab oil embargo shows the risk of stopping exports
  
  Read more

• FirstFT: Flávio Bolsonaro secures early lead in Brazil’s election

  05-10-2026 12:33 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Spain’s Pedro Sánchez calls snap election and the euro falls to 17-month low against the dollar
  
  Read more

• Bond turbulence means it’s time for the ECB to put QT on hold

  05-10-2026 12:22 via ft.com
  Prudence suggests a halt by the central bank until more stable conditions are restored
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• UK business secretary weighs up tariffs on Chinese EVs

  05-10-2026 12:03 via ft.com
  Jonathan Reynolds authorises officials to draw up package of potential levies that could be imposed
  
  Read more

• A Chinese billionaire reckons with the limits of building AI across borders

  05-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  One-time gaming tycoon Chen Tianqiao bet billions on a second act in agentic research but ran headlong into US-China trade tensions
  
  Read more

• Saudi Aramco chief warns world’s oil stockpiles are ‘scarily thin’

  05-10-2026 10:21 via ft.com
  Amin Nasser says inventories depleted by Middle East conflict could take up to two years to rebuild
  
  Read more

• The MoneyWeek ETF portfolio update – October 2026

  05-10-2026 09:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  We last updated the MoneyWeek ETF portfolio in July, when we added one new position, bringing in WisdomTree True Emerging Markets (LSE: WEMP) to balance the growing technology tilt in our long-standing iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets (LSE: EMIM) position.We now have 15% in emerging markets, which sounds high – but the Korea and Taiwan element (which is around 50% of EMIM) is now a play on the AI investment cycle to such an extent that it no longer seems to make sense to think of them as
  
  Read more

• Euro slides to 17-month low against dollar

  05-10-2026 08:38 via ft.com
  High energy prices and concerns over France’s public finances add to pressure on the single currency
  
  Read more

• BT buys struggling rival TalkTalk out of administration

  05-10-2026 08:36 via ft.com
  Deal will result in estimated £400mn cash hit for UK’s broadband leader and wipe out TalkTalk’s debts
  
  Read more

• Stocks to profit from strategic materials

  05-10-2026 08:30 via moneyweek.com
  
  Our fund, JSS Sustainable Equity – Strategic Materials, invests across the whole value chain for strategic materials. Around 70% to 80% is invested in upstream mining companies. The remainder goes to recyclers, mining equipment manufacturers, battery producers and advanced materials companies. These businesses benefit from the same structural trends, but their earnings often swing less than those of miners.I score every commodity each month on five factors: the marginal cost of production,
  
  Read more

• Self-employed? Reasons why you should pay into a SIPP

  05-10-2026 08:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Just 4% of fully self-employed people currently save into a private pension, according to figures from the Pensions Commission, the inquiry set up by the government to investigate the state of the UK population’s retirement planning.One problem is that self-employed people sit outside the auto-enrolment system, under which all employers must offer their staff access to a pension scheme and sign them up for it unless they explicitly opt out. This also means self-employed people miss out on
  
  Read more

• The jobs market is still fine

  05-10-2026 07:30 via ft.com
  But the stock market is losing a lot of weight
  
  Read more

• BT closes in on deal for embattled TalkTalk

  05-10-2026 07:11 via ft.com
  Takeover would hand another 1.6mn broadband customers to UK market leader
  
  Read more

• FirstFT: US withdraws bombers from UK base

  05-10-2026 06:33 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: global dealmaking falls and UK banks to press Healey
  
  Read more

• Why a booming economy is not helping Trump

  05-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Anxiety about AI and affordability has turned his populist party into a popular target
  
  Read more

• Banks will lobby Healey for capital rules cut, says senior MP

  05-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Chair of the Treasury select committee says chancellor cannot ignore global shift to lower capital requirements
  
  Read more

• Election season starts with possibly the most contentious result

  04-10-2026 19:15 via ft.com
  Nobel Peace Prize announced, and another moment of British by-election jeopardy
  
  Read more

• BT weighs improved TalkTalk offer after initial approach rejected

  04-10-2026 13:03 via ft.com
  Telecoms group seeks deal within days for debt-laden broadband provider
  
  Read more

• What can revive the battered government bond market?

  04-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
  
  Read more

• In defence of big business

  04-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Despite the lionisation of small companies, prosperity hinges on a handful of large firms
  
  Read more

• Britain’s Budget needs to tame spending and boost growth

  04-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Chancellor Healey can still make a low-key fiscal event a constructive one
  
  Read more

• Tories vow to end £100,000 childcare trap but keep pensions triple lock

  04-10-2026 11:33 via ft.com
  Kemi Badenoch says current threshold for free hours, introduced by previous Conservative government, punishes parents for working more
  
  Read more

• US to receive potash shipment from Belarus as relations thaw

  04-10-2026 11:00 via ft.com
  Washington has begun to ease sanctions on Minsk in exchange for the release of political prisoners
  
  Read more

• How Dutch start-up ASML rose to rule the world

  04-10-2026 10:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  ASML (Amsterdam: ASML) is the only commercial supplier of EUV lithography systems – machines that sit at the heart of the modern semiconductor industry. An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system is roughly the size of a double-decker bus, weighs roughly 180 tonnes and costs more than €180 million. It fires lasers at tens of thousands of microscopic droplets of molten tin every second, creating a plasma that emits light at a wavelength of 13.5 nanometres. That light is used to pr
  
  Read more

• Personal Assets Trust is being outstripped by inflation – can it recover?

  04-10-2026 09:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  With Personal Assets Trust (LSE: PNL), Capital Gearing (LSE: CGT) and Ruffer (LSE: RICA) all losing value after inflation, many investors who turned to wealth preservation trusts over the past five years will have been disappointed.In that time, UK inflation – as defined by the consumer price index (CPI) – has averaged 5% per year, or 27.5%. Meanwhile, Personal Assets is up 20.8% on a net asset value (NAV) basis to the end of August or 3.85% per year. Ruffer has gained 20% (3.7% per
  
  Read more

Follow @economyUKnws on Twitter!