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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthUS trade
    US companies lawyer up in preparation for Trump’s trade wars

    Legal and accounting firms expect a fee bonanza from efforts to avoid expected tariffs and export controls

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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
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    Global green subsidy race draws investor attention

    Europe, the US and China are vying to be the most attractive destination for investment in sustainability

    Chinese carmaker Nio’s 500,000th electric vehicle rolls off the production line. China’s EV sector has been heavily subsidised by the government
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
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    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

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    Companies such as Samsung, Hyundai and LG have helped bring Korean culture to unexpected corners of the US

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  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
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    US president-elect’s aids and nominees are getting ready to swiftly implement his main campaign pledges

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Rise in unemployment rate bolsters case for Federal Reserve rate cut this month

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    The Trump market, a month in Premium content

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    How the chip war could turn under Trump

    From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Focus on services may mean Britain does not face ire of incoming US president, business secretary tells FT summit

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Will China’s manufacturing juggernaut run out of road?

    Faced with weak demand at home and the threat of tariffs abroad, Beijing is under pressure to rethink its export-driven model

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  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
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    Will Washington need to step up to support Intel?

    Exit of CEO Pat Gelsinger maybe a sign of a shift in attitude by the company’s board to a huge strategic overhaul

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  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    UK tax
    Number of people caught in 60% ‘tax trap’ up 45% in two years

    Rise for taxpayers earning more than £100,000 blamed on frozen thresholds and wage inflation

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
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    With a slowing market fuelling a price war between local brands, the party for foreign carmakers looks over for now

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  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    US employment
    Effort to cut federal workforce takes aim at key US jobs engine

    Government and healthcare have emerged as biggest source of American employment, particularly for knowledge workers

    Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    China’s shift to local chips gains momentum from latest US export controls

    Industry associations urge companies to switch, saying American semiconductors are ‘no longer safe or reliable’

    Illustrated montage of a computer chip in the foreground and the US and Chinese flags in the background
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Tariff Man’s superpowers are weaker than he thinks

    Donald Trump’s obsession with import taxes belies their limited effects

    Justin Trudeau with Donald Trump in 2017. If Trump really does favour tariffs, he will find them a clumsy and often ineffective way of asserting US power
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
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    Powell ‘not concerned’ over risks Trump will stifle Fed independence

    US central bank chief says his institution has ‘broad support’ on Capitol Hill

    Jay Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, right, during the New York Times DealBook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
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    Trump nominates Peter Navarro as senior economic adviser

    China hawk who served in president-elect’s first term was imprisoned for contempt of Congress over 2021 Capitol attack

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  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
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    Mexico makes largest fentanyl bust as Trump’s tariff threat looms

    Drugs seizure comes after US president-elect says he will impose levies if flow of narcotics is not halted

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  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    Central banks should tread cautiously with rate cuts, says OECD

    Core price pressures and services inflation should make rate-setters wary of cutting too fast, report concludes

    Jay Powell gives a speech in front of a US flag
  • 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
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Business InsightThomas Hale
    Western businesses in China hold on to hopes for Trump 2.0

    Some believe the incoming US president is in a strong position to negotiate a trade deal with Beijing

    Pedestrians in Beijing, China
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions

    Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries

    A close-up view of the Chinese flag positioned next to representations of the elements gallium and germanium on a periodic table
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    What makes the US truly exceptional

    Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

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