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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italy’s business elite has been roiled by a scam that used an artificial intelligence-generated voice mimicking Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto to ask tycoons to wire millions to overseas bank accounts to help pay ransoms

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his team from accessing the US Treasury department’s payments data, warning that it risked leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump announced Nippon Steel had abandoned its plan to buy US Steel but would “invest heavily” in the iconic Pittsburgh producer. At a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency has sparked a flood of imitators, leading to warnings that investors risk being duped. More than 700 copycat and spam coins have been sent to Trump’s digital wallet by people apparently seeking to suggest their creations have his endorsement, according to a Financial Times analysis. It comes after the president and

Financial markets have been roiled by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs on key trading partners, and investors are bracing for further volatility ahead. Here’s how they are trading Trump’s on-again, off-again trade war. Equities: ‘impossible to avoid risk’ Wall Street has been working since before November’s presidential election on how it should position

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President Donald Trump’s plans for the US to take over Gaza have been met with anger and dismay across the Arab world, and raised fears of reigniting conflict in the region. The US

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world China has revived antitrust investigations into Google and Nvidia, while considering a new probe against Intel, as Beijing looks for leverage in talks with US President Donald Trump. China’s State Administration for Market

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A revival in investment banking helped BNP Paribas to lift its profits by more than 15 per cent in the fourth quarter, as France’s largest lender said it was launching a plan to boost the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US consumers face the possibility of higher prices for popular goods such as tomatoes, avocados and tequila following Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on imports from China, Mexico and Canada.  The potential

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU has said it regrets US President Donald Trump’s decision to hit Canada, Mexico and China with sweeping tariffs, and said it would respond firmly if a threat to expand the trade

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU plans to make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products sold online, in a crackdown on the flood of imports from China. According to a

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has said Ottawa should retaliate to any US tariffs by adding huge levies on Tesla vehicles to punish Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump’s “billionaire buddies”. Freeland,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US will go ahead with plans to hit Canada, Mexico and China with new tariffs, the White House has said, heightening the risks of a trade war. Washington will hit Canada and

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said the central bank’s projections showed US tariffs would probably put Canada into a recession. BoC modelling, based on a scenario in which the US imposes permanent 25 per cent tariffs on every one of its trading partners and those nations respond in kind, shows a likely 2 per

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A frantic sell-off of energy and infrastructure shares this week after advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese start-up DeepSeek shows how little is understood about the power demands of AI, the International Energy Agency has

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation by Rome prosecutors over her government’s decision to return a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court back to the north African country. In a video

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said he would fast-track product releases and “deliver much better models” after the release of a powerful new model by Chinese start-up DeepSeek undermined Silicon Valley’s lead in a global artificial intelligence arms race. DeepSeek’s generative AI chatbot, a direct rival to ChatGPT, is able to perform some tasks at

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump makes no secret of disliking state intervention in most things. But free market forces are looking increasingly untenable on an existential issue that confronts his administration. As the world warms and

When Italian financial power broker Mediobanca helped its longtime client Monte dei Paschi di Siena structure a make-or-break capital raising in 2022, little did it know it would ultimately become a takeover target for the former poster child of the country’s failed banking system.  On Friday, MPS astonished investors by launching a €13.3bn all-share bid

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US diplomats have requested an urgent exemption for Ukraine-related programmes from a 90-day freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders issued by secretary of state Marco Rubio, according to documents seen by