Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and fellow at IWM Vienna Listening to US vice-president JD Vance’s address in Munich and looking at the
White House talks between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy over ending the war between Moscow and Kyiv have broken down after the US president said his Ukrainian counterpart had “disrespected” America. The dramatic and premature conclusion to the summit came after the two leaders clashed even before the start of their formal meeting, as the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft is shuttering its Skype video-calling service 14 years after buying the company for $8.5bn, hanging up on a pioneer of internet communications that upended the telecoms industry and paved the way for WhatsApp and
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21851341/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal bond issuance in the Far West region in 2024 reflected a national boom, rising 30.8% year-over-year to $98.96 billion, according to LSEG data, spurred by infrastructure spending and fear over potential changes post-election. “There was a theme for the majority of the year of people pushing out debt
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. International development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in protest at Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to fund a £6bn defence spending increase by slashing the UK’s aid budget. “Ultimately, these cuts will remove food and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has accused the UK’s antitrust regulator of “looking backwards” by ignoring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the technology industry, in its response to the agency’s investigation into the £9bn UK cloud computing market. The
Not long after the US and Russia sat down for their first high-level talks since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the US’s biggest multinationals received a call. The Russian government was planning a meeting to discuss the path for western companies to re-enter the country. Would this particular multinational, the Russian government official
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. Keir Starmer can reflect on a successful first visit to Donald Trump’s White House. But
Bitcoin (BTC) is in danger of violating its old all-time highs from March 2024 as BTC price losses erase the entire “Trump pump.” Where could BTC/USD finally bottom? Cointelegraph takes a look at the most popular targets for crypto traders and analysts. BTC price fills key CME futures gap A key area on the radar
Crypto self-custodial wallet MetaMask is set to expand support to the Bitcoin and Solana networks and eventually remove gas fees as part of a roadmap of updates for the year. The Bitcoin network will be integrated sometime in the third quarter, while Solana will become the first non-Ethereum Virtual Machine chain that MetaMask supports in
Bitcoin’s price will continue to experience volatility until genuine buyers start entering the market, rather than traders seeking arbitrage opportunities, according to a crypto venture capitalist. “This is a classic case of liquidity games. ETFs didn’t just bring in long-term holders — they brought in hedge funds running short-term arbitrage,” Master Ventures founder Kyle Chasse
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Citigroup credited a client’s account with $81tn when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank’s attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues. The erroneous internal
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world When Donald Trump won the American election last year, a consultancy called Penta created a “war room” to track what policies really mattered. “Where there’s a wealth of information, there’s often a poverty
Thirty years ago, investment management was largely a boutique business where fund managers graciously agreed to pass on their wisdom to clients in return for a hefty annual fee. These were great days for star managers. I interviewed Jeff Vinik back in 1995, then running the world’s largest mutual fund, Fidelity Magellan. He let slip
On the western border of Florida’s Ocala national forest, an hour’s drive north of Orlando, there is a half-acre plot that may soon be the subject of international litigation. Not for its contents — the site still sits undeveloped and has been reclaimed by woodland — but over its owner. Records at Marion County’s property
Social media mentions of crypto dip buying have rocketed to their highest level since last July amid a crypto market rout that recently sent Bitcoin under $80,000. Santiment’s social sentiment tracker found that traders’ discussions on various social media channels like X, Reddit and Telegram between Feb. 25 and 26 are “showing a very high
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global stocks fell on Friday, extending a sharp US market sell-off after Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose steep tariffs on imports from major trading partners added to investors’ concerns about the health of the
Bitcoin’s price could be approaching its bottom this cycle as it lingers below $83,000 and market sentiment remains fearful, according to the founder of a crypto fund. “Some broader macro data still looks poor, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if we put in a near-term floor locally given the significant level of fear and
Update (Feb. 28 at 3:51 am UTC): This article has been updated to reflect the total amount of liquidations and industry reactions to Bitcoin’s price movement. Bitcoin has fallen under $80,000 for the first time since November amid mounting macroeconomic uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs. On Feb. 27, Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted to
In this article SOL.CM= DOGE.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A visual representation of dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission issued long sought after guidance Thursday evening saying it does not deem most meme coins securities under U.S. federal law. Meme coins “typically have limited or
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has specialised in heaping scorn on America’s traditional allies since arriving in the White House, but on Thursday he adopted a strikingly new approach: lavishing praise on a “fantastic” Britain and