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• The case for Trump’s tariffs

  24-04-2025 12:00 via ft.com
  The arguments are believed more widely than the Maga camp, but that does not make them any more right
  
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• The ‘extreme and improbable’ economics of Citrini’s AI report

  24-02-2026 16:30 via ft.com
  Doomer dunking
  
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• Will AI-driven productivity growth allow the Fed to lower rates?

  24-02-2026 13:30 via ft.com
  Theory and data allow us to spin different narratives
  
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• Etihad boss says tariffs more disruptive to airline than conflict

  24-02-2026 09:35 via ft.com
  Antonoaldo Neves likens situation to snowstorms disrupting traffic for several days
  
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• China slams dozens of Japanese companies with export curbs

  24-02-2026 07:40 via ft.com
  Beijing bans shipments of critical ‘dual-use’ goods in latest escalation of row with Tokyo
  
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• FirstFT: Zelenskyy urges US to see through Russia’s ‘games’

  24-02-2026 06:31 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Mandelson arrest and Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions
  
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• The cyber security threat inside your car

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Built-in vulnerabilities in high-end vehicle components raise the risk of both espionage and sabotage
  
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• Takaichi plans Japanese ‘Cfius’ to tighten economic security

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Foreign investment agency modelled on US intended to guard sensitive industries against China
  
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• Fed still on course to hold until June

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Read the February forecast from the FT’s Monetary Policy Radar team
  
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• Panama hands canal ports control to Maersk and MSC after ejecting Hong Kong group

  24-02-2026 05:14 via ft.com
  Shipping companies to temporarily operate terminals after Supreme Court ruling against CK Hutchison
  
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• Trump’s global tariff to go into effect at 10%

  24-02-2026 04:53 via ft.com
  US president had said he would raise the levy to 15 per cent
  
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• Trump’s global tariff takes effect at 10%

  24-02-2026 04:53 via ft.com
  US president had said he would raise the levy to 15%
  
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• Trump’s 10% global tariff to go into effect despite threat of higher rate

  24-02-2026 04:53 via ft.com
  The US president had said at the weekend he would raise the levy to 15% but an order has not materialised
  
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• US tariff strike-down creates new trade dilemmas for India

  24-02-2026 02:30 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: the bulldozers are coming to Great Nicobar
  
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• FedEx sues Trump administration for tariff refunds

  24-02-2026 01:48 via ft.com
  Shipping company is first major American company to file suit over levies since Supreme Court deemed them illegal
  
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• China is not dumping US Treasuries

  24-02-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  Ignore the amateur geopolitical strategists talking eloquently about the end of dollar dominance
  
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• FirstFT: Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges US to see through Russia’s ‘games’

  23-02-2026 23:00 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Peter Mandelson arrested and Washington evacuates staff from Lebanon embassy
  
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• FirstFT: US software and private capital shares slide amid AI fears

  23-02-2026 23:00 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Peter Mandelson arrested and Washington evacuates staff from Lebanon embassy
  
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• US evacuates staff from Lebanon embassy as fears rise of war with Iran

  23-02-2026 19:09 via ft.com
  President Trump has threatened to strike the Islamic republic unless a deal is reached on curbing its nuclear programme
  
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• The US Supreme Court’s ruling won’t stop Donald Trump’s tariffs

  23-02-2026 18:59 via ft.com
  The justices have closed one door of trade policy while leaving an entire corridor wide open
  
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• US software and private capital shares hit with fresh wave of selling

  23-02-2026 18:36 via ft.com
  Wall Street banks also slide as fears over AI disruption mount
  
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• US stocks fall as software sell-off reignites

  23-02-2026 17:33 via ft.com
  Private capital groups also suffer steep losses
  
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• EU delays ratifying US trade deal

  23-02-2026 16:24 via ft.com
  Move comes in response to Supreme Court ruling deeming Trump’s tariffs illegal
  
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• US probably shed jobs last year, top Federal Reserve official says

  23-02-2026 15:39 via ft.com
  Governor Chris Waller says he would back March rate cut if there are further signs of weakening in labour market
  
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• Stocks slip and gold gains as global trade faces new Trump tariff threat

  23-02-2026 15:31 via ft.com
  Dollar also dips after US president imposes 15% duty following Supreme Court decision to strike down previous policy
  
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• UK warns tariff retaliation is an option if US reneges on trade deal

  23-02-2026 15:24 via ft.com
  Government says ‘nothing is off the table’ if talks with Trump administration are not resolved amicably
  
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• Wall Street, Main Street and more tariff turmoil

  23-02-2026 15:00 via ft.com
  Supreme Court rebuke of Trump’s trade policy will be a tailwind to an economy running hot
  
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• When is the Spring Statement and what might be in it?

  23-02-2026 14:02 via bbc.com
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves will give an update on her plans for the UK economy when she gives a statement alongside an economic forecast on 3 March.
  
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• The new era-defining central bank ‘trilemma’

  23-02-2026 14:00 via ft.com
  We can’t have three good things at once, unfortunately
  
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• The Supreme Court sends tariffs on a turbulent descent

  23-02-2026 13:36 via ft.com
  America’s trading partners and US Congress have a chance to claw back some control
  
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