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• Direct economics — the great Maga experiment

  05-04-2025 06:00
  The arbitrariness of the tariffs is a feature not a bug in the plan to short-circuit the financial establishment
  
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• An apology to the bond vigilantes

  09-04-2025 22:36
  
  And a thank you from FT Alphaville
  
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• US stocks soar as Donald Trump backs down in global trade war

  09-04-2025 22:02
  Washington scraps most tariffs against countries that have not retaliated but increases levies on China
  
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• Donald Trump backs down in global trade war

  09-04-2025 22:02
  
  Washington scraps most tariffs against countries that have not retaliated but increases levies on China
  
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• Markets calling off America’s Greatest Depression

  09-04-2025 20:21
  For now, at least!
  
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• US stocks surge as Trump pauses ‘reciprocal’ tariffs for 90 days

  09-04-2025 19:29
  
  Most countries’ imports face a maximum 10% levy but Trump hits China harder
  
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• Uncertainty persists even after Trump’s ‘capitulation to markets’, investors say

  09-04-2025 19:29
  Goldman Sachs rapidly reverses call for recession after president’s U-turn
  
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• Bitcoin stabilises as hopes rise Trump tariffs will renew interest in crypto

  09-04-2025 18:57
  Cryptocurrency recovers off lows even as US and China ratchet up trade tensions
  
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• UK and India rush to secure trade deal after Trump tariffs

  09-04-2025 18:48
  Long-delayed talks between London and New Delhi given fresh impetus by US taxes on imports
  
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• Brent crude dips below $60 per barrel for first time in 4 years

  09-04-2025 18:42
  
  Oil price hit by recession fears as trade war between US and China escalates
  
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• Will the Fed intervene in disorderly markets?

  09-04-2025 18:30
  
  The central bank will strain every sinew not to be seen to bail out Donald Trump
  
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• US government debt sinks as pivotal $39bn Treasury auction looms

  09-04-2025 18:24
  
  Investors contend with fallout as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs come into effect
  
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• US government debt sell-off eases after $39bn Treasury auction

  09-04-2025 18:24
  Investors contend with fallout as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs come into effect
  
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• Apple turns to India to help ease Trump’s China tariffs

  09-04-2025 18:01
  
  iPhone maker is facing one of the biggest threats to its business in years
  
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• Grocers can provide shelter from tariff storm

  09-04-2025 17:59
  Investors on the lookout for havens may want to check out supermarket stocks
  
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• Cost of insuring Europe’s riskiest companies against debt defaults surges

  09-04-2025 17:56
  Costs jump to 18-month highs as fears grow about health of region’s highly indebted groups
  
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• Walmart warns tariffs have made profit outlook less predictable

  09-04-2025 17:40
  The largest US retailer is striving to keep prices low even as Donald Trump’s levies take effect
  
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• Keir Starmer shifts focus in US trade talks to cutting 25% tariff on UK cars

  09-04-2025 17:22
  PM admits he does not know if Trump can be persuaded to scrap 10 per cent levy on all imports
  
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• Tariffs are coming for my . . .  nuclear warheads?

  09-04-2025 16:41
  
  Imports boom
  
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• What is behind the Treasury sell off?

  09-04-2025 16:38
  
  The double whammy of falling bond and equity prices could partly be hedge funds unwinding so-called ‘basis trades’
  
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• How investors can survive the ‘Orange Crash’

  09-04-2025 15:59
  
  Market meltdowns are all the same — here are six things I’ve learnt
  
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• UK borrowing costs soar to highest level since 1998

  09-04-2025 15:27
  
  Jump in yields on 30-year gilts came as investors dumped US Treasuries after concluding country had ‘lost control of its senses’
  
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• Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars

  09-04-2025 15:25
  
  As tariffs escalate, FT specialists recommend titles that explain the forces and ideas shaping trade policy in recent decades, including President Trump’s trade war
  
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• China hits US imports with additional retaliatory tariff of 50%

  09-04-2025 14:15
  
  Beijing to match new duties imposed by Donald Trump with effect from Thursday as trade war escalates
  
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• Has America discovered its ‘moron risk premium’?

  09-04-2025 14:00
  
  Bond bombshell
  
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• US stocks volatile as trade war intensifies

  09-04-2025 13:21
  
  Investors contend with fallout as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs come into effect
  
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• S&P 500 opens 0.4% lower as trade war intensifies

  09-04-2025 13:21
  
  Declines come after Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs come into effect
  
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• China retaliates with new 50% tariff on US imports

  09-04-2025 13:21
  
  Measure comes as Treasury yields soar
  
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• The hopeless search for Trump’s cunning plan

  09-04-2025 13:06
  
  Attempts to read grand strategy into the US president’s doings have run their course
  
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• Top ECB policymaker warns ‘worst-case scenarios’ are materialising

  09-04-2025 12:33
  Bank of Spain governor says global investors may reassess role of US dollar as haven currency
  
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