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• Decoding recent moves in Treasury yields

  17-04-2025 07:30 via ft.com
  Uncertainty is high — but maybe not disastrously so
  
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• Brazil is back in fashion – should you invest?

  31-07-2026 17:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Brazil remains a good old-fashioned emerging market play, while volatile semiconductor manufacturers distort Asian stock indices. Financials make up 40% of the MSCI Brazil stock market index, with energy and materials combined accounting for nearly 30%. The Ibovespa index enjoyed a thrilling spring as global investors looked for a hedge against surging commodity prices.While Brazil does import some refined oil products, it is a net exporter of crude oil, say Alex Nae and Tae Yoon Kim for FTSE Ru
  
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• Andy Burnham's policies are the “reddest of red flags”

  31-07-2026 16:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Andy Burnham has taken power with remarkably little scrutiny – no general election, no contest for the leadership of his party, and no form of questioning in Parliament. A few sound bites aside, we have very little idea of what his plans are. Instead, over his first week, he made a series of small announcements, all of them to be financed by some form of creative accounting or financial conjuring trick.On his first day, for example, Andy Burnham announced a plan to end rough sleeping, at a
  
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• Semiconductor stocks fall despite record profits

  31-07-2026 15:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Semiconductors are the world's most valuable manufactured good. These tiny, intricately engineered pieces of silicon can perform more calculations in a second than a single person could complete in 30,000 years. This year has brought a semiconductor boom for the ages. The US PHLX chip index has nearly doubled over the past 12 months. Investors, noticing that big US tech firms are planning nearly $1 trillion in spending on AI data centres next year, followed the money to the chip stocks that prov
  
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• Fed dissenters warn of challenges in taming inflation

  31-07-2026 14:08 via ft.com
  Three rate-setters rebelled against US central bank’s majority decision to hold rates steady this week
  
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• The typical inheritance tax bill has jumped and more people will be affected – plan ahead now

  31-07-2026 13:24 via moneyweek.com
  
  Inheritance tax (IHT) has long been dubbed Britain’s most-hated tax, despite only affecting a small chunk of the population. That’s changing though – more people are on track to be hit by the 40% levy in coming years.Rising house prices and frozen inheritance tax thresholds mean more families have and will be brought into the IHT net each year, known as fiscal drag. The issue is set to worsen when pensions are included in the estate for inheritance tax from April 2027.In the ta
  
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• FirstFT: The fight for football’s future

  31-07-2026 12:50 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Citadel bails out Situational Awareness and Claude hacks three organisations
  
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• NS&I boosts interest rates on 8 fixed-rate savings accounts – are they any good?

  31-07-2026 12:48 via moneyweek.com
  
  NS&I has hiked interest rates on its fixed-rate savings products for the third consecutive time this year, making them some of the best on the market. The government-backed bank has increased the interest rates on new issues of its one, two, three, and five-year savings accounts, called British Savings Bonds.It brings NS&I’s top interest rate to 4.75% for the new five-year guaranteed growth bond, or 4.72% for the new one-year guaranteed growth bond.Andrew Westhead, retail director
  
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• Rising Eurozone inflation keeps rate rise on the table

  31-07-2026 12:13 via ft.com
  The ECB is likely to act again in September amid still-high energy costs
  
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• Eurozone inflation rises to 2.9% in July

  31-07-2026 11:01 via ft.com
  Energy shock will keep the ECB on alert ahead of September rate decision
  
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• Review: The Rex in Manchester is an Art Deco masterpiece with an interesting past

  31-07-2026 09:15 via moneyweek.com
  
  Three years ago, Chanel chose Manchester over London for its Métiers D'Art fashion show. Soho House opened its doors in November on the site of the former Granada Studios. And for the first time, the Brit Awards ventured beyond the capital for their star-studded ceremony earlier this year. For a city with industry at its heart, Manchester is certainly holding its own in the glamour and style stakes.As you approach 100 King Street – the address of The Rex, Edwin Lutyens's white Portl
  
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• What Warsh is (probably) up to

  31-07-2026 07:30 via ft.com
  The pro-volatility Fed chair
  
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• FirstFT: Europe vows World Cup boycott in Fifa protest

  31-07-2026 06:44 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Europe’s wildfire risks and the ‘Nostradamus of AI’
  
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• The Fed will face a pivotal meeting in September unless there is a durable ceasefire

  31-07-2026 06:30 via ft.com
  Read the July forecast from the FT’s Monetary Policy Radar team
  
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• We’ve moved from income world to wealth world

  31-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society
  
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• Rhine drought strands ships and forces German production shutdowns

  31-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Crucial trade river near its lowest level in eight years as temperatures head towards 40C
  
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• China is smarter about subsidies than everybody else

  31-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Beijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectors
  
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• China’s factory activity falls for first time in five months

  31-07-2026 05:47 via ft.com
  Official data also shows sharp decline in non-manufacturing activity in July
  
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• Apple shares tumble as AI build-out hits supply chains and growth

  31-07-2026 01:17 via ft.com
  Chief executive Tim Cook says impact of memory prices is set to worsen as he steps down
  
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• Apple forecasts slower growth as AI build-out strains tech supply chains

  30-07-2026 23:41 via ft.com
  Smartphone revenue rose more than a fifth as rivals struggle
  
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• China is not the solution to the US chipflation problem

  30-07-2026 19:24 via ft.com
  Buying memory chips from companies like CXMT could lower costs but risks dependence
  
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• Bank holds interest rates but says it is ready to raise them if Iran war escalates

  30-07-2026 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Bank also expects the economy to grow more than previously forecast this year, although uncertainties remain because of the Iran war.
  
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• BoE holds rates at 3.75% as it waits to see impact of Iran war

  30-07-2026 18:16 via ft.com
  Monetary Policy Committee split six to three, with key voters more confident that underlying price pressures are receding
  
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• Income investors enjoying Q2 record dividends

  30-07-2026 17:53 via moneyweek.com
  
  Income investors have enjoyed a strong quarter with UK companies paying out their all-time highest levels of dividend payments, according to industry research.The latest Computershare UK Dividend Monitor – a quarterly report produced by the financial administration company, which tracks share registers of limited companies, including how they return money to shareholders – said regular dividends were the driving force behind the regular payments. In total, companies paid out £3
  
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• Declining PCE inflation in June likely to be reversed in July

  30-07-2026 16:58 via ft.com
  Higher energy prices this month will send the inflation gauge back up
  
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• US economic growth sees surprise slowdown in second quarter

  30-07-2026 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the three months to June, down from 2.1% seen in the previous quarter.
  
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• US economy grew less than expected at 1.5% rate in second quarter

  30-07-2026 15:49 via ft.com
  Slowdown comes amid continued impact from Middle East war
  
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• Bank of England holds rates amid volatile energy prices

  30-07-2026 13:44 via ft.com
  Majority of rate-setters are ready to respond in either direction, depending on what happens to oil and gas costs
  
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• Eurozone economy grew 0.4% in second quarter despite Middle East energy shock

  30-07-2026 11:52 via ft.com
  Economists had expected a slower pace of expansion
  
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• The Burnham bounce shouldn’t come as a surprise

  30-07-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Labour may be enjoying an uptick in the polls but the public mood remains largely one of disinterest
  
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