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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Eurozone downturn eases despite German factory decline, survey finds

    S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index rises to 8-month high

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Unhedged
    The Fed probably won’t raise rates Premium content

    Declining to cut is punishment enough

    Jat Powell
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    A window of opportunity for Western companies to quit Xinjiang

    With investor confidence in China weak as its economy slows, VW and BASF are more willing to brave a political backlash

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s stock market is back after 34 years but the country is deeply changed

    Share prices may have finally overtaken level of 1989 but sentiment in Tokyo is nowhere near as bullish as it was

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Uncertainty dogs the global digital market

    A WTO meeting next week will discuss the bizarre idea of trying to put border tariffs on data flows

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    US interest rates
    Wavering investors come around to Fed’s outlook on interest rates

    Stubborn US inflation data persuades traders to rein in aggressive bets on cuts

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Markets InsightRobin Brooks
    EU’s Russia sanctions trade-off has stored up problems

    Weak enforcement has come at the expense of — perhaps — a faster end to the war

    People walk past a Gazprombank office in Moscow, Russia
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK inflation
    How ‘dodgy’ jobs data hit the UK’s battle against inflation 

    Flawed labour market survey has left rate-setters unsure on even basic questions such as the level of unemployment

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Food industry warns ‘Not for EU’ labelling will deter investment in UK

    Post-Brexit requirement will put up costs for British manufacturers, says Food and Drink Federation

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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's economy
    How Pakistan’s economy fell into crisis — in charts

    High debt, low growth and raging inflation will challenge a new government lacking a public mandate

    A montage of a stack of Pakistanti rupee notes and charts
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    US interest rates
    US Fed officials were wary of cutting rates too quickly

    Minutes from January meeting showed rate-setters remained ‘highly attentive’ to inflation risks

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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Disrupted Times
    Defence spending in the crosshairs

    Also in this newsletter: HSBC profits plummet, Navalny jail bosses sanctioned, hedge fund makes $1bn from interest rates bet

    Ukrainian troops learn how to operate drones
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    EU agrees first sanctions on Chinese and Indian companies for Russia war links

    Curbs on almost 200 entities aim to ‘degrade’ Moscow’s capability to attack Ukraine

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visiting a military plant in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Cyber Security
    White House moves to defend US ports from Chinese cyber threat

    Move includes billions of dollars to replace container cranes amid concerns hackers could disrupt supply chains

    The China Shipping Container Terminal/WBCT at the Port of Los Angeles: the White House said the executive order would ‘bolster the security of the nation’s ports’
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Poland
    Zelenskyy seeks meeting with Tusk to end Polish farmers’ border blockade

    Ukraine president says protest ‘increases the threat to the supply of weapons to our warriors’

    Polish farmers take part in a blockade protest at the Dorohusk Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Poland on February 20 2024
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
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    FirstFT: Donald Trump’s donor numbers drop by 200,000

    Also in today’s newsletter, HSBC profits tumble and Israel’s ‘Eichmann’ dilemma

    A montage of Donald Trump with a horizontal line chart in the background
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    China circumvents US tariffs by shipping more goods via Mexico

    Data highlight difficulties in cutting Chinese exporters out of American supply chains

    Container ships moored at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Brooke Masters
    Could a US pensions revolution be on the cards?

    IBM’s decision to reinstate its defined benefit scheme makes good business sense — other companies should follow

    The IBM logo is seen on their building’s headquarters in New York
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Walmart Inc
    Walmart says inflation was stickier than expected in latest quarter

    Prices of some items did not fall as much as anticipated, claims world’s largest retailer

    A Walmart worker in front of shelves of toys
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    UK trade
    Canada contradicts Kemi Badenoch claims on ‘ongoing’ trade talks

    Latest spat for business secretary as Ottawa’s diplomat in London writes to MPs saying no negotiations happening

    Business secretary Kemi Badenoch
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Chris Giles
    How to start fixing Europe’s economy

    The EU’s performance is both better and worse than commonly believed

    James Ferguson illustration of the map of Europe as a snail with the house cover in EU flag and the € sign in the middle.
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Why Australia may be the canary in the coal mine on interest rates

    A hawkish tone from the country’s central bank — and from New Zealand — signals that movement could still be up not down

    The Reserve Bank of Australia building in Sydney
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    UK inflation
    BoE may begin cutting rates before hitting 2% inflation target

    Governor Andrew Bailey points to ‘encouraging signs’ that price pressures are easing

    Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    EU employment
    Eurozone collective wage growth slows for first time since 2022

    Decline unlikely to assuage inflation concerns and speed up rate cuts, say economists

    Commuters in the La Défense business district of Paris, France in January 2024
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    What caused the great inflation? Premium content

    An international comparison unmasks the culprits and has a sting in the tail

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