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...More on his remarks from our colleagues Andy Bounds and Alan Beattie in Abu Dhabi here....
...Speakers include Vodafone chief executive Margherita Della Valle and Dell Technologies chair and CEO Michael Dell....
...Our colleague Alan Beattie weighs in....
...Michael Froman, former US trade representative under Barack Obama during the long-ago era when the US actually tried to sign trade deals, has been given the very nice job of president of the US Council on...
...While this is a lull, the factors that created battles over currency misalignments have not gone away, writes Alan Beattie....
...The business community will also be worried that Milei’s election, as Alan Beattie notes in today’s Trade Secrets newsletter (for Premium subscribers), might put the whole direction of South American trade...
...My colleague Alan Beattie has another great Trade Secrets on how America’s partners should roll with Biden’s new era of managed trade....
...Alan Beattie is on top form as he takes on the term “Global South . . . [a] patronising . . . contradiction [and] catalyst for political polarisation”!...
...More than 40 years after Michael Bloomberg founded his data business, his eponymous terminal remains ubiquitous on trading floors....
...Party president Michael Russell has called it the SNP’s worst crisis in 50 years, while Nicola Sturgeon has said events since she quit as leader last month surpassed her “worst nightmares”....
...Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary has now called time on this in the airline sector....
...My colleague Alan Beattie once argued that one of the best signs an economy is in crisis is when average citizens are intensely interested in finance, obsessing over sovereign bond yields and currency levels...
...And as the great Michael Pettis points out (in the FT, of course), the current account deficit reflects a much more longstanding and more worrying trend of China failing to shift growth to households in...
...has warned that highly-charged talks on an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines are “stuck” and need governments to compromise at the WTO’s main ministerial meeting next week, writes Alan Beattie...
...Michael Pooler and Bryan Harris have written an interesting article about whether Brazil — where traditional manufacturing is in steep decline — can be revived by a new commodities boom....
...“We have dealt with the pestilence, only to be visited with a war,” said Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary. Fertiliser and chemical companies are also badly affected....
...Trade Secrets writer Alan Beattie says the EU has also suffered from the UK’s departure....
...The response of central banks could have important repercussions in upcoming elections, writes Latin America editor Michael Stott....
...miss The UK and EU’s chief Brexit negotiators have spoken of the need to explore compromises on the most difficult issues remaining in the two sides’ trade talks, as Britain’s Cabinet Office minister Michael...
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com or email me at alan.beattie@ft.com A heavyweight gets knocked out Well, that escalated quickly....
...As Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis have argued in their excellent book Trade Wars Are Class Wars, it’s domestic rather than international distributional struggles that produce imbalances....
...a year container shipping industry might be expected to be in a perilous state owing to the demand shock caused by Covid-19 — especially given its recent record of weak profits and overcapacity, write Michael...
...Reporting by Sam Fleming, Michael Peel, Jim Brunsden, Mehreen Khan and Alan Beattie in Brussels, and Hannah Kuchler in New York...
...Michael Gove, the UK Cabinet Office minister, has acknowledged that up to 50,000 people will have to be recruited to carry out customs paperwork under a new trade deal....
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