UK’s Keir Starmer to hold talks with China’s Xi Jinping
Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday hold the first face-to-face talks by a British prime minister with Chinese President Xi Jinping since 2018, as he seeks “sensible and pragmatic engagement” with the ...
Ministers land in Baku to help break finance stalemate at COP29
While some top diplomats, such as US climate official John Podesta and Brazil’s Marina Silva and André Corrêa do Lago, had flown to Brazil to push for support for climate action at the G20 leaders ...
Why the G20 is a harbinger of the EU’s brave new diplomatic world
Context: The gathering unites the world’s 20 biggest economies, and was formed to find joint solutions to big issues such as managing the global economy, climate change and development finance. From ...
Inside the world of activist short sellers
Plus, reforming Britain’s pensions industry, gold rally fizzles and Imaginary Lines at the Daniel Katz Gallery ...
The yawning investability gap between US banks and UK peers
The car finance affair has echoes of the misselling of payment protection insurance — a scandal that cost banks more than £50bn in compensation. For motor finance, RBC analysts currently estimate the ...
Investcorp buys US accountancy as private equity hunts professional services
Bahrain-based private equity group Investcorp is buying one of the largest privately owned tax and accounting partnerships in the US, part of a wave of dealmaking for accounting groups, talent ...
European plastics makers shut plants as production declines sharply
Plastic production in Europe declined 8.3 per cent in 2023, according to figures published by Plastics Europe, the industry body, on Monday. Mechanical plastics recycling — the most common form of ...
Best of: why men’s fashion is skimpier and more queer
This summer, men bared way more skin – on the runway and on the street. The FT’s Robert Armstrong and Eric Platt join Lilah ...
Transcript: The US dollar surges
The US dollar has hit a one-year high since Donald Trump won the presidency. That’s because investors are betting that ...
Janus Henderson files to launch collateralised loan ETF in Europe
Janus Henderson has filed to launch its first collateralised loan obligation exchange traded fund in Europe amid surging interest in the asset class. The US asset manager has applied to register an ...
Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad? With Kimberly Clausing
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Transcript: Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad?
This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast episode: ‘Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad? With Kimberly Clausing’ Soumaya Keynes Trump is back and that means so ...