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• FirstFT: US bipartisan bill seeks to block Nvidia sales of advanced chips to China

  04-12-2025 22:40 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: investors fret over Japan’s spending plans and Meta plans to slash spending on metaverse
  
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• US senators seek to block Nvidia sales of advanced chips to China

  04-12-2025 20:49 via ft.com
  Bipartisan bill is part of effort to stop Beijing from getting critical AI-related technology
  
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• EU to review tariffs on Volkswagen’s EVs made in China

  04-12-2025 15:15 via ft.com
  Move could offer German automaker respite from anti-subsidy measures
  
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• How is Trump reshaping globalisation and world trade? You asked, we answered

  04-12-2025 14:15 via ft.com
  The FT’s Alan Beattie and Andy Bounds replied to reader questions
  
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• Analysts’ Views: Fed will cut in December but 2026 uncertainty remains high

  04-12-2025 12:26 via ft.com
  Following the government shutdown and data drought, views that the Fed will cut on December 10 are near unanimous
  
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• FirstFT: US pulls back from sanctioning China

  04-12-2025 12:05 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: investor concerns about Hassett, and Meta faces fresh EU antitrust investigation
  
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• Soaring growth puts India’s central bank in tough spot

  04-12-2025 12:00 via ft.com
  Blistering GDP reading raises doubts about RBI cut amid questions about quality of official data
  
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• China says it is ‘actively’ issuing rare earths general licences

  04-12-2025 10:22 via ft.com
  Beijing’s tight export controls on critical minerals have strained relations with US and EU
  
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• FirstFT: Investors uneasy about Fed chair frontrunner

  04-12-2025 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: EU to probe WhatsApp AI feature and Macron in China
  
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• Macron warns of ‘disintegration’ risk to world order in Xi meeting

  04-12-2025 06:03 via ft.com
  Two leaders stress need for multilateralism amid rising trade tensions
  
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• EU climate chief criticises China, India and Saudi pushback on carbon tax

  04-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Petrostates becoming ‘more assertive’, Wopke Hoekstra tells FT
  
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• How will a rise in Japanese interest rates affect global markets?

  04-12-2025 05:44 via ft.com
  Investors worry about fallout from yen carry trade unwinding after speech by BoJ governor
  
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• US halts plans to sanction Chinese spy agency to maintain trade truce

  04-12-2025 05:22 via ft.com
  Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security
  
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• US halts plans to sanction Chinese spy agency

  04-12-2025 05:22 via ft.com
  Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security to maintain trade truce
  
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• US halted plans to sanction Chinese spy agency to maintain trade truce

  04-12-2025 05:22 via ft.com
  Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security
  
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• Trump says claim of US affordability crisis is a ‘hoax’

  04-12-2025 02:07 via ft.com
  President insists prices have come down despite voter frustration over high cost of living
  
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• Trump doubles down on claims of affordability ‘hoax’

  04-12-2025 00:47 via ft.com
  President insists prices have come down despite American voters’ frustration over the cost of living
  
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• Bond investors warned US Treasury over picking Hassett as Fed chair

  03-12-2025 19:18 via ft.com
  Some market participants worried candidate for top central bank job will be swayed by Trump on interest rates
  
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• People admit to 'secret spending' without telling partners

  03-12-2025 16:09 via bbc.com
  People were spending without telling their partners on beauty products, gambling, and cryptocurrencies.
  
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• Why wealth taxes are back in the spotlight

  03-12-2025 13:00 via ft.com
  A decade after Thomas Piketty’s unlikely bestseller, his ideas are getting renewed political attention
  
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• Russia strengthens financial ties to China with first renminbi bond

  03-12-2025 12:49 via ft.com
  Country’s $3bn ‘dim sum’ bond will help finance war in Ukraine and could lead to many more
  
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• Trafigura says growth in China oil demand to hit multiyear low in 2026

  03-12-2025 11:28 via ft.com
  Commodity trader says growth in India will overtake that in China for first time
  
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• Trafigura says China oil demand to hit multiyear low in 2026

  03-12-2025 11:28 via ft.com
  Commodity trader says growth in India will overtake that in China for first time
  
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• RIP QT; long live ‘reserve management purchases’

  03-12-2025 07:00 via ft.com
  Just please don’t call it quantitative easing, for Fed’s sake
  
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• FirstFT: Reform UK donors say Farage expects deal with Tories

  03-12-2025 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: ‘Made in Europe’ targets and Anthropic taps IPO lawyers
  
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• FirstFT: Kevin Hassett becomes frontrunner to succeed Jay Powell

  03-12-2025 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Anthropic taps law firm for IPO and Binance names new co-CEO
  
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• The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Maga man and Mamdani

  03-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman on exploiting male rage – and America’s affordability crisis
  
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• The EU single market’s elephant in the room

  03-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm
  
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• Brussels pushes for 70% of critical goods to be ‘made in Europe’

  03-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Policy would force EU companies to buy certain products domestically in an effort to cut reliance on China
  
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• Brussels pushes for 70% of critical goods content to be ‘made in Europe’

  03-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Policy would force EU companies to buy certain products domestically in an effort to cut reliance on China
  
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• FirstFT: India orders government-developed app to be installed on all smartphones

  02-12-2025 22:48 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Demand for Japanese bonds reassures jittery markets, and OpenAI declares ‘code red’ over ChatGPT
  
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• Taiwan’s AI boom leaves traditional manufacturers trailing

  02-12-2025 22:00 via ft.com
  Diverging fortunes of technology and other sectors spark concern despite rapid growth in GDP
  
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• It’s time to sound the alarm on growing fiscal and financial risk

  02-12-2025 18:23 via ft.com
  Rising public debt is one concern — another is how it is being financed
  
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• Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official

  02-12-2025 17:37 via bbc.com
  Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was "not inconsistent" with the situation she faced.
  
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• UK to make drug approvals easier in latest tariff deal with Trump

  02-12-2025 15:00 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter, Karoline Leavitt reacts to bipartisan call for answers on September’s Venezuela strikes
  
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• What is the OBR and why has its boss resigned?

  02-12-2025 14:14 via bbc.com
  The OBR's analysis of the impact of the 2025 Budget was published in error before the Budget itself.
  
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• Why UK borrowing costs are so high

  02-12-2025 13:30 via ft.com
  Despite fiscal tightening announced at the Budget, market trust in British governments remains low
  
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• Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk

  02-12-2025 13:11 via bbc.com
  The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.
  
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• Eurozone services inflation ticks up again in November

  02-12-2025 12:08 via ft.com
  The headline rate remains around target, but rising services inflation will be under the ECB’s microscope
  
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• FirstFT: Honduras election on a knife-edge

  02-12-2025 12:06 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Steve Cohen moves closer to opening New York’s first casino, and China’s booming pharma industry
  
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• Tax rises and tighter spending to hold back UK growth, OECD says

  02-12-2025 11:42 via bbc.com
  Growth in the UK economy is expected to slow next year, an influential global policy group predicts.
  
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• Eurozone inflation unexpectedly rises to 2.2% in November

  02-12-2025 11:02 via ft.com
  Economists expect ECB to keep rates on hold at December meeting
  
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• Rate cuts will end in leading economies next year, says OECD

  02-12-2025 11:00 via ft.com
  Paris-based group signals major central banks have scant room to loosen policy further
  
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• Budget foundations starting to wobble

  02-12-2025 10:30 via ft.com
  Overly optimistic assumptions that inflation will always be the public finances’ friend are mistaken
  
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• FirstFT: UK pension funds pull back from US stocks on AI bubble fears

  02-12-2025 06:34 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: EU’s planned Ukraine loan and Italian gold reserves
  
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• China draws in Europe’s businesses despite alarm over competition

  02-12-2025 03:39 via ft.com
  Investment in world’s second-largest economy helps companies keep pace with Chinese rivals
  
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• NHS to increase medicines spending to avoid threatened Trump tariffs

  01-12-2025 16:25 via ft.com
  UK government will make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies
  
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• NHS medicines budget to increase by 25% in push to avoid Trump tariffs

  01-12-2025 16:25 via ft.com
  UK government will make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies
  
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• NHS medicines budget set to increase by 25% in push to avoid Trump tariffs

  01-12-2025 14:15 via ft.com
  UK move aims to make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies
  
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• Trump’s tariffs are not reducing the trade deficit

  01-12-2025 13:31 via ft.com
  Both exports and imports have fallen, and US manufacturers are hurting
  
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