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• Bank of Canada holds policy rate at 2.75%

  16-04-2025 16:34 via ft.com
  
  Decision comes as country faces economic uncertainty from US trade war
  
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• Are we too pessimistic about America?

  05-05-2025 15:00 via ft.com
  There may be worries about tariffs and the rule of law but one cannot discount US resilience
  
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• Why the EU beats Trump at the art of the deal

  05-05-2025 12:47 via ft.com
  The mayhem of Mar-a-Lago is less effective than the boredom of Brussels
  
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• FirstFT: Chinese exporters ‘washing’ products to avoid Trump’s tariffs

  05-05-2025 11:16 via ft.com
  
  Also in today’s newsletter, Saudi companies retrench after fall in oil prices and Berkshire after Buffett
  
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• Q&A: How should central banks navigate the new world order?

  05-05-2025 10:38 via ft.com
  
  Pose questions to FT journalists about the monetary policy picture in the US and the rest of the world
  
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• Taiwan dollar jumps 6.5% in two days over trade deal fears

  05-05-2025 10:20 via ft.com
  Currency surges as life insurers move to cover under-hedged positions in US assets
  
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• Taiwan dollar jumps 6.5% in two days on trade deal fears

  05-05-2025 10:20 via ft.com
  
  Currency surges as life insurers move to cover under-hedged positions in US assets
  
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• The US labour market is holding up

  05-05-2025 07:30 via ft.com
  And China’s economic cards
  
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• Warren Buffett to step down from Berkshire Hathaway

  05-05-2025 07:00 via ft.com
  
  Plus, Trump adviser struggles to calm investors, the US economy contracts, and Edvard Munch at the National Portrait Gallery
  
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• FirstFT: Chinese exporters use ‘place-of-origin washing’ to avoid Trump’s tariffs

  05-05-2025 06:44 via ft.com
  
  Also in today’s newsletter, oil prices slump and Berkshire after Buffett
  
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• Trump has created a chance for the euro to rival the dollar

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  European leaders need to shed their political timidity to take the necessary steps
  
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• The one region where the traditional right is on the rise

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  In Latin America, the ‘pink tide’ is running out and offering global capital new hope
  
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• Martin Wolf talks to Kenneth Rogoff: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  The US president’s trade policies are a ‘catalyst’ for the greenback’s fall
  
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• Martin Wolf talks to Ken Rogoff: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  The US president’s trade policies are a ‘catalyst’ for the greenback’s fall
  
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• Global volatility is a reason to lean into emerging markets, not flee them

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Investors should pursue a ‘barbell approach’ that focuses on high conviction public credit trades and strongly secured private credit
  
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• ‘Feed the gorilla’: How corporate America fought Trump’s tariffs threat

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Threat of a damaging trade war sparked a lobbying campaign by the world’s most powerful business leaders
  
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• De Beers chief says Trump’s diamond tariffs are of no benefit to US jobs

  05-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Industry body warns that more than $100bn is at risk if the precious stones are not exempted from duties
  
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• Trump says he will impose 100% tariff on movies made abroad

  05-05-2025 04:00 via ft.com
  
  US president expands trade war to film industry in pledge to prevent ‘death of Hollywood’
  
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• Bank of mum and dad 'helps half of first-time buyers'

  05-05-2025 01:02 via bbc.com
  
  An average of £55,572 was given in loans and gifts by members of the family, estimates show.
  
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• FirstFT: Chinese exporters ‘wash’ product in third countries to avoid US tariffs

  04-05-2025 23:51 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter, Berkshire after Buffett, and Huawei’s advanced chip production line in China
  
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• Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Trump tariffs

  04-05-2025 22:00 via ft.com
  Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US
  
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• Europe prepares to anoint new leaders as it marks VE Day

  04-05-2025 19:15 via ft.com
  Merz takes over as German chancellor, Vatican conclave begins and Skype waves goodbye
  
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• Cash-strapped Maldives to build $9bn blockchain hub in bid to lure investors

  04-05-2025 18:26 via ft.com
  
  Dubai-based family office plans financial zone for the Indian Ocean archipelago
  
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• Trump’s ‘Marie Antoinette moment’: call for national sacrifice falls flat

  04-05-2025 14:00 via ft.com
  
  President faces backlash after warning Americans they will have to make do with fewer toys at Christmas
  
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• How will the Federal Reserve respond to Trump’s tariffs?

  04-05-2025 13:00 via ft.com
  
  Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
  
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• Europe won’t displace US economic power any time soon

  04-05-2025 13:00 via ft.com
  
  Trump’s damage to America’s growth rate will be mostly reversible
  
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• EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order

  04-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Brussels revives plan to forge strategic partnership with CPTPP to defend rules-based global system
  
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• Abu Dhabi company G42 to expand in US in artificial intelligence push

  04-05-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  State-backed group accelerates investment plans as it deepens collaboration over the technology
  
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• How Carney's election win will change direction of trade war

  04-05-2025 02:25 via bbc.com
  In his exclusive BBC interview, the Canadian Prime Minister indicates how he plans to tackle Trump.
  
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• Uber starts allowing customers to pay in cash

  04-05-2025 01:30 via bbc.com
  Taxi app giant Uber said trials showed some people preferred paying in cash or did not have a bank card.
  
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