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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Asia-Pacific equities
    Asian stocks rise after US inflation data clears way for rate cut

    Currencies strengthen against dollar as investors position for loosening by Federal Reserve

    3 hours ago
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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Emerging markets
    Dollar’s surge sparks biggest fall in emerging market currencies in 2 years

    Developing economies also suffering from ‘confluence of bad news’

    Hands holding US dollar bills at an exchange office at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Chris Giles
    The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts

    As Greek borrowing costs fall to French levels, the bloc’s ‘periphery’ shows the value of steady reform

    People eat in a restaurant in Athens as a chef cooks in the open kitchen
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    US dollar
    The Three-Dollars Problem

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  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Inditex
    Inditex pins hopes on Trump dollar rally as sales disappoint

    Zara owner expects Trump rally to boost retailer in crucial Christmas quarter

    Outside a Zara store in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Markets InsightBarry Eichengreen
    A turning point for the dollar is coming

    The short- and long-term prospects of the currency are at odds

    Illustration showing US dollar banknotes
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Hedge funds
    Hedge funds profit from ‘Trump trades’ around US election

    Element Capital and Graham Capital among macro managers that did well out of recent market swings

    A montage of $100 notes and the outside of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    US dollar
    Dollar climbs after Trump’s Brics tariff threat and French political woes

    Currency on course for biggest daily rise since November 5 US presidential election

    A teller shows US dollar bills
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Yen
    Yen strengthens past ¥150 against dollar on BoJ rate rise expectations

    Japanese currency’s rally makes it one of the best performing among G10 group this week

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Currencies
    Rouble slides as new Russian sanctions stifle foreign trade

    Pressure on currency set to continue as curbs against lenders such as Gazprombank hit export payments

    People walk on the Red square next to St Basil’s Cathedral and the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    US dollar
    Dollar falls after Trump names Bessent to Treasury role

    US bond yields drop as hedge fund manager nominated for top economic position

    Scott Bessent speaks at a Republican party campaign event in August. He is seen gesturing while standing at a podium, with a US flag in the background.
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Shahin Vallée
    Why Scott Bessent could be Trump’s James Baker

    The next president’s choice as Treasury secretary may find a way to place Maga economic policy in a co-operative international framework

    President Ronald Reagan (L) and his chief of staff, James Baker, ride in the presidential limousine in 1981
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Global Economy
    Strong dollar set to hit emerging market bonds, warn investors

    EM debt funds suffer outflows as hopes of rate cuts by developing nations fade

    Workers exit the Central Bank of Brazil headquarters in Brasilia,
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Euro
    Trade war worries drive euro to two-year low

    Single currency has been a victim of a market shift to anticipate Trump’s tariff policies

    A shopper hands over a €10 banknote to a vendor at a local market in Nice, France
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Foreigners dump Chinese government bonds as popular trade unwinds

    Investors who had borrowed renminbi to buy sovereign debt hit by market sell-off

    The People’s Bank of China building in Beijing
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    The US dollar surges

    Investors are betting that Donald Trump will drive up inflation, keeping bond yields higher

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Trade protectionism masquerading as currency policy is harmful

    How about just getting macro policy right and ignore the dollar?

  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Markets InsightRobin Brooks
    Big changes are coming for dollar and emerging markets

    If Trump imposes larger tariffs, the renminbi and US currency pegs will come under pressure

    Donald Trump holds a tariff table as he speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in 2019
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Political risk and investment
    Bitcoin, dollar and Tesla jump as investors pile into ‘Trump trades’

    Markets expect US president-elect to take light-touch approach to regulation

    A man with a backpack walks past a storefront displaying multiple bitcoin symbols and an advertisement for bitcoin ATMs in Nicosia
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Chinese equities
    Hong Kong stocks fall as China’s stimulus package disappoints

    Hang Seng index down 1.5% after Beijing unveils $1.4tn plan to restructure local government debt but no consumer support

    Montage of Hong Kong stock exchange building and a chart
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Markets
    Is US inflation on the rise?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    A view of the Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Markets InsightMansoor Mohi-uddin
    With Trump in power, the dollar is likely to rally but then weaken

    Over the incoming president’s second term, the risks of crises may unwind the greenback’s strength

    The US flag hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange in New York’s Financial District
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Yen
    Japanese official warns on ‘excess moves’ in yen after Trump win boosts dollar

    Asian currencies under pressure following US election

    Japanese 10,000 yen banknotes and US 100 dollar bills are arranged side by side.
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Chinese trade
    Chinese exports soar as Beijing prepares for trade tensions with Trump

    China could respond to aggressive new tariffs with bigger stimulus action or currency depreciation, say analysts

    Cranes and cargo ships at Nanjing’s port in China's eastern Jiangsu province, with the sun setting in the background. Containers are stacked on the dock and aboard the ships, indicating active shipping and trade operations
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Political risk and investment
    US stocks hit record and investors dump bonds after Trump victory

    Dollar rallies in its best day in 2 years as ‘Trump trades’ sweep through global markets

    Dollar banknotes
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