US Global System

Taiwanese groups consider overseas headquarters to hedge against Chinese attack

...The groups are “in manufacturing [and] currently looking for a location for a second headquarters in south-east Asia, just in case an emergency happens in Taiwan, to give them an alternative command system...

April 9, 2024

JPMorgan Chase & Co

JPMorgan warns of need for ‘reality check’ on phasing out fossil fuels

...In a global energy strategy report sent to clients this week, the US investment bank said efforts to reduce the use of coal, oil and gas had been set back by higher interest rates, inflation and wars in...

April 19, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Financial stability in the last mile

...US debt is a particular concern. High and volatile US treasury yields — which underpin pricing in financial markets — risk adding to global rate pressures....

April 22, 2024

The Big Read

The overlooked threats to the global financial system

...Since the great financial crisis of 2007-08 regulators have engaged in the biggest push to de-risk the global financial system since the 1930s....

April 16, 2024

Rana Foroohar

The White House knows that the global south has a point

...But global financial institutions will have to change too if there is to be a real shift to a better system....

April 23, 2024

Zambia

Zambia’s $13bn debt stand-off an ‘indictment’ of global system, says president

...“If the largest creditor has signed through the global system . . . it means we have resolved with China,” he said....

March 20, 2024

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

Trade SecretsAlan Beattie

The dollar would survive Trump turning currency warrior

...In reality, a resumption of the currency wars of the 2000s and 2010s is unlikely to do much to reduce the US deficit nor undermine the dollar’s global role in bank funding, payment systems and reserves....

April 18, 2024

Rana Foroohar

The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul

...But the alternative is that the US continues to take a unilateral approach to rejiggering the global trade system....

February 25, 2024

Ruchir Sharma

The overstimulated superpower

...Some of that fiscal and monetary stimulus is still coursing through the system, keeping growth artificially high and inflating both consumer and asset prices....

April 22, 2024

Martin Wolf

The dangers lurking in our messy and unpredictable world

...It also depends on the fragilities in the system. Four stand out. The first set is environmental....

January 23, 2024

The Big Read

Is the global economy stumbling into ‘the tepid Twenties’?

...Another big source of concern for attendees is a fragmentation of the global trading system, with nations — including the world’s two largest economies, the US and China — increasingly resorting to tariffs...

April 19, 2024

Letter

Letter: IMF can help fix the system of sovereign debt restructuring

...Otherwise, the system will remain rotten, at least for debtors....

March 14, 2024

Eli Lilly & Co

Eli Lilly weight-loss drug found to address sleep apnoea in trial

...The positive data will also be a boon to Eli Lilly’s efforts to push for more widescale coverage of the drugs by private insurers and US federal health insurance programme Medicare, which were both initially...

April 17, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

Power, productivity and how our system works Premium

...What is harder to follow is the money that doesn’t go through official PACs or campaign committees but nevertheless has an outsized impact on the US political system — indeed, I’d argue that in some cases...

April 22, 2024

News updates from April 17: UK inflation falls less than expected; Boeing engineer says safety concerns are ignored

Germany urges dozen of allies to send air defence systems to Ukraine

...Germany has written to dozens of countries including Gulf Arab states to plead for more air defence systems for Ukraine, saying Kyiv needed urgent help to protect its cities, troops and critical infrastructure...

April 17, 2024

FT Live

Global Wealth Management Summit

Recalibrating business for multi-generational private clients

Martin Wolf

The tricky judgments on when to loosen

...What matters is not what is happening right now, but what will happen in the months or even years ahead, as past policy works through the system. New information must be seen through that lens....

April 23, 2024

Tesla Inc

Tesla to cut 10% of global workforce

...The job cuts come as the slowdown in sales of EVs makes waves across the global car industry, with companies across the supply chain from South Korea to Germany slashing jobs and costs....

April 15, 2024

Global economic growth

US and India stoke hopes of global growth in 2024

...Momentum in economies including the US and India has been picking up in recent months, helping stoke optimism that global growth in 2024 will modestly outpace last year’s reading, according to research for...

April 14, 2024

Global Economy

US deficit poses ‘significant risks’ to global economy, warns IMF

...The IMF has warned the US that its massive fiscal deficits have stoked inflation and pose “significant risks” for the global economy....

April 17, 2024

War in Ukraine

Germany urges dozens of allies to send air defence systems to Ukraine

...Baerbock and Pistorius said the IAAD initiative would primarily seek to procure more US-built Patriot systems for Ukraine as they had proven most effective against Russian ballistic missiles....

April 17, 2024

Markets InsightRussell Napier

China is moving towards full monetary independence

...Such interventionism is taking us back to the system known as financial repression that reduced excessive debt levels in the aftermath of the second world war....

April 18, 2024

Rana Foroohar

China’s hypocrisy on trade

...This meeting took place when the US and UK had just imposed sanctions on hackers, whom they accuse of a long, China-sponsored effort to insert malware into the US electrical grid and defence systems....

April 1, 2024

US-China relations

Blinken to warn China over weapons-related exports to Russia

...President Joe Biden issued an executive order in December warning foreign financial institutions that they “risk losing access to the US financial system if they facilitate significant transactions relating...

April 20, 2024

Climate change

Rich nations pledge $11bn to World Bank for climate and global crises

...The US has requested $750mn for the portfolio guarantees from Congress and Belgium has announced $70mn....

April 20, 2024

Trade Secrets

Lie back and think of Pennsylvania Premium

...But yes, it’s the steel industry again, screwing up the global trading system for everyone else....

March 18, 2024

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