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• Humble Jay gets it right

  21-09-2023 07:30
  Higher for longer is the right balance, for now
  
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• How technology is reshaping our minds

  22-02-2026 13:00
  Competing demands on our attention are undermining our ability to focus
  
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• Have investors moved on from AI disruption scares?

  22-02-2026 13:00
  Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
  
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• It is time for Europe to weaponise its chokepoints

  22-02-2026 06:00
  China and others have long been adept at using supply chains to their advantage — the EU should do the same
  
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• Trump raises global tariffs to 15% in wake of Supreme Court loss

  21-02-2026 18:28
  President attacks judges for a second day as he escalates levies from 10%
  
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• What does Trump’s latest tariff threat mean for his previous trade pacts?

  21-02-2026 17:18
  Analysts say the risk of retaliation is likely to deter countries from seeking to backtrack on already-agreed deals
  
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• What does Trump’s fresh tariff threat mean for his previous trade pacts?

  21-02-2026 17:18
  Analysts say the risk of retaliation is likely to deter countries from seeking to backtrack on already-agreed deals
  
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• Trump raises global tariffs to 15 per cent in wake of Supreme Court loss

  21-02-2026 17:17
  President continues his attack on judges and announces levies on US trading partners will ‘immediately’ increase
  
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• France says EU has the tools to hit back at Trump over tariffs

  21-02-2026 14:13
  Country’s trade minister says the bloc must be prepared to retaliate
  
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• What Friedrich Merz is going to tell Xi Jinping

  21-02-2026 12:00
  The German chancellor will arrive in Beijing with a markedly tougher trade stance than his predecessors
  
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• The Supreme Court’s tariff blow to Trump

  21-02-2026 10:38
  Uncertainty will linger as the president tests alternative legal options
  
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• The haven asset status of US Treasuries is eroding

  21-02-2026 06:00
  Trump has come close to exploding one of the great myths of the investment world
  
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• Mediterranean deluge revives worries about climate-driven food price rises

  21-02-2026 06:00
  Europe’s winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains devastate crops in Spain, Portugal and Morocco
  
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• Deluge revives concerns about European food price rises

  21-02-2026 06:00
  Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains devastate crops in Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco
  
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• Trump tariffs as it happened - President warns of 10% global levy after court ruling

  21-02-2026 00:21
  Top court issues historic rebuke of US president’s use of emergency powers to impose duties on trading partners
  
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• Supreme Court torpedoes Trump’s tariff regime in check on executive power

  21-02-2026 00:19
  US president lashes out at ‘disloyal’ justices after stinging blow to his flagship economic policy
  
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• What comes next after the top US court struck down Trump’s tariffs?

  20-02-2026 20:32
  The US president has alternatives he can use to escalate his trade wars
  
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• US GDP growth falls sharply to 1.4% rate in fourth quarter

  20-02-2026 20:31
  Figure hit by drop in government spending during federal shutdown comes in far below analysts’ expectations
  
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• Trump vows to use ‘alternatives’ after Supreme Court rules sweeping tariffs are illegal

  20-02-2026 19:40
  Top court issues historic rebuke of US president’s use of emergency powers to impose duties on trading partners
  
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• Trump vows to impose 10% global tariff after Supreme Court rules sweeping duties are illegal

  20-02-2026 19:40
  Top court issues historic rebuke of US president’s use of emergency powers to impose duties on trading partners
  
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• Corporate America demands refunds after Trump’s tariffs struck down

  20-02-2026 18:43
  Battle lines begin to form over who will recover more than $130bn in levies assessed on imports
  
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• The Supreme Court has delivered an overdue rebuke to Donald Trump on tariffs

  20-02-2026 18:00
  It turns out that even conservative justices will only accept so many assaults on legal and constitutional norms
  
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• Too hot to hold

  20-02-2026 17:46
  Christine Lagarde has pushed back against reports that she will step down from the ECB early
  
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• Supreme Court’s tariff ruling has mixed implications for the Fed

  20-02-2026 17:24
  The risk of a lasting inflationary overshoot is now lower but the US’s fiscal path is likely to be more expansionary
  
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• US growth falls sharply to 1.4% annualised rate in fourth quarter

  20-02-2026 16:40
  Figure hit by drop in government spending during federal shutdown is far below analysts’ expectations
  
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• US Supreme Court rules Trump’s sweeping tariffs are illegal

  20-02-2026 16:02
  Top court issues historic rebuke of US president’s use of emergency powers to impose duties on trading partners
  
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• US economy slows in final months after turbulent year

  20-02-2026 15:58 via bbc.com
  Overall the economy grew 2.2% last year, holding up despite pressures from changes to tariff and immigration policy.
  
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• US GDP growth below expectations unlikely to prompt faster Fed cuts

  20-02-2026 15:30
  Price pressures continued to rise according to the December PCE inflation data
  
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• US growth falls sharply to 1.4% rate in fourth quarter

  20-02-2026 14:59
  Figure hit by drop in government spending during federal shutdown is far below analysts’ expectations
  
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• New Year's sport supplement buying adds to January retail sales surge

  20-02-2026 13:30 via bbc.com
  Continuing strong sales from online jewellers after a recent spike in gold prices also helped drive the increase.
  
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