Economy news

• Bank of Japan’s summary of opinions indicates growing consensus for rate rise

  10-11-2025 15:00
  Policymakers note growing confidence that the medium-term outlook will be realised
  
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• Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK

  09-12-2025 18:12
  Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
  
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• Investors should look to the data, rather than the Fed, for guidance

  09-12-2025 16:40
  Anyone making their own 2026 forecasts will need to employ more guesswork than usual
  
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• Trump decides to let Nvidia export powerful H200 chips to China

  09-12-2025 15:00
  Also in today’s newsletter, the US warns the EU to be ‘very careful’ after it fined Elon Musk’s X
  
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• Central bankers, let Turkey be a warning

  09-12-2025 13:30
  Country is now running ultraorthodox policy but still struggling to bring persistent inflation down
  
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• BoJ governor says economy has weathered Trump’s tariffs

  09-12-2025 10:01
  Kazuo Ueda’s comments feed market expectations of an interest rate rise at next week’s meeting
  
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• FirstFT: Inside Paramount’s $108bn hostile bid for Warner Bros

  09-12-2025 06:31
  Also in today’s newsletter: Fed and ECB moves on rates, and Revolut’s buyback offer
  
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• Debate about the Fed’s balance sheet is heating up

  09-12-2025 06:30
  A shake-up of the ample reserves framework cannot be ruled out as the Fed’s leadership baton is passed
  
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• The significance of the next Fed chair choice

  09-12-2025 06:00
  While short-term market moves may be less dramatic than expected, profound changes are ahead for the central bank
  
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• Investors increase bets on ECB rate rise in threat to dollar

  09-12-2025 06:00
  Prospect of higher borrowing costs in Eurozone, Australia and Canada could leave Federal Reserve as an outlier in 2026
  
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• Investors bet Fed and ECB headed in opposite directions on rates

  09-12-2025 06:00
  Higher borrowing costs expected in Australia, Canada and euro area could leave Federal Reserve as an outlier in 2026
  
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• UK consumer card spending falls by most since 2021, says Barclays

  09-12-2025 01:01
  Spending in November was hit by Budget uncertainty
  
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• Budget uncertainty blamed for sharp fall in card spending by UK consumers

  09-12-2025 01:01
  The decrease is the largest since February 2021
  
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• FirstFT: Paramount launches $108bn hostile bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery

  08-12-2025 22:59
  Also in today’s newsletter: Thailand strikes Cambodia, and Singapore fintech plots Silicon Valley expansion
  
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• Nvidia can sell H200 AI chips to China, Trump says

  08-12-2025 22:55
  US president says other chipmakers will also be allowed to export advanced semiconductors
  
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• US announces $12bn aid package for farmers hit by tariffs

  08-12-2025 21:56
  Bailout will help mitigate cost of the president’s trade policies to the sector
  
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• US set to announce $12bn aid package for farmers hit by tariffs

  08-12-2025 17:14
  Bailout will help mitigate cost of the president’s trade policies to the sector
  
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• Trump set to announce $12bn aid package for US farmers hit by tariffs

  08-12-2025 17:14
  Bailout will help mitigate cost of the president’s trade policies to the sector
  
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• Monetary Policy Radar preview: a hawkish Fed cut

  08-12-2025 15:30
  The FT’s guide on what to look out for on Wednesday
  
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• Emerging markets are shrugging off Trump’s tariffs

  08-12-2025 13:31
  The US trade war hasn’t hit low- and middle-income countries as much as feared
  
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• Wolf-Krugman: We need to talk about men

  08-12-2025 12:59
  The Economics Show 🤜🤛 FT Alphaville
  
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• Brussels delays ‘made in Europe’ plan after backlash

  08-12-2025 12:04
  Proposal seeks to dictate minimum levels of domestic content for products such as cars to cut China reliance
  
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• FirstFT: Opposition grows to Netflix-Warner Bros deal

  08-12-2025 11:27
  Also in today’s newsletter: China’s trade surplus hits $1tn and L’Oréal raises stake in aesthetic injectables group
  
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• October wage data helps case for a December BoJ rate rise at the margin

  08-12-2025 09:21
  Nominal wage growth was better than expected even if real wages continued to fall
  
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• Bessent’s brag

  08-12-2025 07:30
  Does the administration control the Treasury market?
  
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• FirstFT: France faces pressure over frozen Russian assets

  08-12-2025 06:31
  Also in today’s newsletter: Starmer hosts Ukraine meeting, and UK navy strategy
  
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• The UK must do more than go on muddling through

  08-12-2025 06:00
  We need to look at the causes of the country’s dire economic performance
  
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• The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions

  08-12-2025 06:00
  A lack of electricity for new data centres could deflate the AI ‘bubble’
  
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• The lone bread maker: Europe’s half-baked single market in services

  08-12-2025 06:00
  EU countries remain reluctant to recognise qualifications from elsewhere in the bloc, causing one of many barriers to growth
  
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• Risks, realism and global realignments — the latest books on economics

  08-12-2025 06:00
  Why Britain needs pragmatism not political dogma; the fallout from the US-China faultline; and how knowledge and speed shape prosperity
  
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