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What is Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariff plan?
US president orders options to retaliate with tariffs against host of perceived trade barriers
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Mohamed El-Erian: The mounting risks to US exceptionalism
Trump’s fire hose of policy changes could make companies more cautious on spending and investment
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‘The Opec of nickel’: Indonesia’s control of a critical metal
What the country does with its newfound power will be crucial for everything from prices to the future of mining investments
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Elon Musk gatecrashes OpenAI restructuring
Ongoing operatic rivalry between billionaire and OpenAI chief Sam Altman remains major subtext
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The start-ups seeking to challenge China’s stranglehold on rare minerals
Companies say recycling electric waste can provide a new independent source of the sought after elements
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Ruchir Sharma: Why speculators are still running wild when money is no longer free
Something even bigger than AI and the Trump effect is at work
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How investors can harness Trump-induced volatility
Some want their portfolio to take cover with cash or gold — for others, it’s a huge buying opportunity
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How to trade the trade war?
Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but swift market reversals are keeping them on edge
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Google goes heavy on investment but light on detail
The absence of guidance on what tech companies are buying as they raise their bets on AI begins to stretch credulity
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China’s exporters to step up offshoring to beat Donald Trump’s tariffs
US president’s trade offensive pushes producers to seek other markets as Beijing mulls retaliation options
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The tariff trouble starts with oil
And weak sales of big-ticket items
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Is Wall Street ready to stay up all night?
The New York Stock Exchange is looking to trade for 22 hours a day — raising thorny questions about how equity markets function
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Lex: Beware tech bosses bearing dusty economic paradoxes
Powell did not give much on the big questions of the day — tariffs, immigration, tax, and quantitative tightening.
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Monetary policy is a sideshow now
Powell did not give much on the big questions of the day — tariffs, immigration, tax, and quantitative tightening
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Ruchir Sharma: The world is moving on to trade without the US
Many nations have been responding to Trump tariffs not by retaliating but by courting other trade partners
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US stocks at most expensive relative to bonds since dotcom era
Tech-fuelled equity rally throws up red flag on ‘Fed model’ for comparing valuations
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Fed to keep rates on hold for ‘foreseeable future’, Pimco says
US central bank will wait for more details of Trump’s policies before resuming cuts, says bond manager’s investment chief
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Donald Trump threatens to double tax rates for foreign nationals, companies
President orders officials to draw up retaliatory measures against ‘extraterritorial’ taxes
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Trump’s trade-offs
Trump likes tariffs and tariff threats. Investors, on the whole, do not. At some point the time for posturing will end and the time for policy will begin
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Trump’s trade challenge
Will tariffs be his only tool? Or will he support industrial policy and US workers in more effective and durable ways?
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The China commodities supercycle is over. Will there be another?
Chinese demand for steel and iron ore has finally peaked. The industry hopes the energy transition will spark a new boom, but it will be shaped by geopolitical competition
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TikTok ban could create a valuable prize: users’ brain space
For Mark Zuckerberg the biggest coup would be to buy the video app outright
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A market in suspense
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Private sector stakes claim to Moon’s airwaves
Increased share of commercial radio spectrum filings shows bet on future lunar economy, FT research finds
