FT News Briefing
Financial Times • News
Financial Times • News
FT News Briefing
Financial Times • News
Financial Times • News

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A rundown of the most important global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Available every weekday morning.

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Episodes

  • The shifting geopolitics of Trump’s tariffs
    The FT’s Gideon Rachman explains how middle powers banded together in the face of massive US tariffs
  • How a small US business navigated Trump’s tariffs
    The owners of the Maryland clothing company Princess Awesome explain how the levies nearly devastated their business
  • The rocky legal future of Trump’s tariffs
    In the second installment of our tariff series, we talk about how the courts are making a mess of the White House’s global trade policy
  • How Trump's tariffs ripped up the global trade order
    In the first installment of a new FTNB series this week, we explore how President Trump’s so-called Liberation Day has shaken up the global trade order
  • Untold: Opus Dei, Ep. 1
    Life inside Opus Dei
  • Hong Kong woos asset managers with potential tax cuts
    Expansion of carried interest regime could mean zero levies on performance fees at hedge funds
  • Investors try to stay ahead of Trump’s Iran moves
    US president appears to make abrupt policy pivots based on swings in crude prices
  • Gold hasn’t been acting like itself lately
    The haven asset has fallen since the start of the war in Iran
  • Netanyahu’s rivals try to outdo him over Iran
    Israel’s opposition parties criticise prime minister’s management of war even as they express strong support for offensive
  • Strait of Hormuz crisis poses fresh threat to global food, energy
    The leaders of the world’s major energy companies will meet in Houston, Texas this week as the sector deals with fallout from the war in Iran
  • The ‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets
    Traders and analysts warn of lasting disruption after damage to Qatar facility that supplies a fifth of the world’s LNG
  • Federal Reserve holds steady as inflation fears mount
    Fed chair says Iran war would push up near-term inflation, but ‘too soon to know the scope and duration’ of economic impact
  • How Saudi Arabia’s bet on Iran backfired
    The détente between the two nations has unravelled as Middle East war triggers Iranian retaliation
  • Iran war tests China’s oil stockpile
    Beijing has driven big increase in reserves of strategic commodities but their scale remains secret
  • US shale producers not yet tempted by $100 oil
    Independent operators are caught between Trump’s Iran war aims and his promise of low petrol prices
  • Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI
    Is loving a chatbot the same as loving a human?
  • US-Iran war boosts Russian oil revenues
    Middle East conflict boosts Vladimir Putin’s war chest as tankers carrying Russian oil head to India
  • Hold on — tech stocks are a safe haven now?
    Investors seek shelter from Iran war in American tech equities
  • Corporate America grapples with huge oil price swings
    As the US-Iran war continues, the cost of fuel is unpredictable
  • The US is leaving an Iranian island untouched
    How US deals with the crucial export hub of Kharg Island could shed light on its longer-term strategy towards Iran