The Brics lose their clout

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The world has changed and the western-led postwar order is over, or so the Brics bloc of developing nations insists. Equally clear at the group’s annual summit in Rio de Janeiro this week … Read more

Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One by one the supposed pillars of the economic argument for Brexit have been knocked away by the realities. Far from being shackled to a corpse, as some Brexiters described the EU economy, both the … Read more

Why copper tariffs are different

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more

Trump is sowing confusion in the markets

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world There are many reasons to feel confused by current American policy. US President Donald Trump keeps issuing “final” tariff threats — then backing down. The White House wants to create industrial jobs — … Read more

US needs to prepare markets for the risk of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The author is chief executive of GTS, a market making and proprietary trading firm The past few years have shown investors that they should expect the unexpected in geopolitics. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and … Read more

The old nuclear rules won’t stop proliferation

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and was the Pentagon’s deputy for nonproliferation from 1989-93 Of all the questions America’s bombing of Iran has generated, the one that’s received the … Read more

Elon Musk is still the Tesla wild card

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here we go again. That must have been the first thought on the minds of many Tesla shareholders this week as Elon Musk waded back into the political fray, declaring his intention to launch a … Read more