All posts tagged "financial times"
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Donald Tusk rejects Boris Johnson demand to scrap Irish backstop
The EU has firmly rejected Boris Johnson’s demand to remove the Irish backstop from a Brexit divorce deal,...
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Fears grow of Venezuela malnutrition time bomb
The graffiti scrawled across a wall in Caracas is short but heartfelt. “Tengo hambre,” it reads. “I am...
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UK embassy says Hong Kong staffer detained in China
A man working at the UK consulate in Hong Kong has been detained in mainland China, the British...
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Now bigger than eBay, Shopify sets its sights on Amazon
Tobi Lütke, the Shopify chief executive, prefers his employees to refrain from checking the ecommerce company’s share price...
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Modi shakes up politics with plan for simultaneous elections
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is known for his love of seemingly simple yet breathtakingly ambitious schemes to...
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Apple splashes $6bn on new shows in streaming wars
Apple has committed more than $6bn for original shows and movies ahead of the launch of its new...
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FTC chief says breaking up Facebook would be hard to do
Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said on Monday that Facebook’s effort to integrate Instagram...
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China social media accounts suspended over HK protests
Facebook and Twitter said they have moved to shut down Chinese state-backed disinformation campaigns on their platforms that...
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Macron and Putin raise prospect of new Ukraine peace talks
Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin have raised the possibility of a new round of negotiations to try to...
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Government to launch PR blitz to reassure UK over no-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson’s government is to launch a major public information campaign to reassure Britons about a potential no-deal...
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Germany likely to tip into recession, Bundesbank warns
Germany’s central bank has warned that Europe’s largest economy is likely to tip into recession in the third...
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Trump says it would be ‘strategically nice’ to buy Greenland
Donald Trump has confirmed he is interested in buying Greenland from Denmark, saying it would be “strategically . . . nice” for...
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There is no recession coming, says White House
Top White House officials have dismissed concerns about a looming recession, but said the Trump administration was considering...
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Investors position for fresh wave of economic stimulus
Investors are anticipating a fresh wave of stimulus measures to tackle flagging growth, as the White House said...
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Donald Trump casts doubt on any Huawei reprieve
Donald Trump has cast doubt on any reprieve for US companies selling to Huawei, saying he does “not...
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WeWork landlords ‘exposed to $40bn’ in rent commitments
Hundreds of landlords are exposed to WeWork via $47.2bn of rental commitments, with little recourse if the office...
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Markets are adjusting to a turbulent world
Paradigm shifts tend to happen slowly, and then all at once. That’s the lesson I’ve taken away from...
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Greece’s new finance minister vows to prioritise tax reforms
Greece’s new finance minister has said that implementing sweeping tax reforms will be his “key priority” as his...
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Gibraltar rejects US legal bid to seize Iranian tanker
Gibraltar has rejected a US legal request to seize the Iranian tanker that has been at the centre...
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Spain offers to take refugee boat turned away by Italy
Spain has said it is ready to allow a boat stranded off the coast of Italy carrying almost...
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Brussels plans to revive money laundering blacklist
Brussels is to revive a blacklist of non-EU countries which it accuses of money laundering, after a previous...
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China to introduce market-driven lending rate
China’s central bank will replace its key lending rate with a more market-driven benchmark in a long-awaited reform...
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Hong Kong protesters rally in defiance of Beijing
Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong were cautiously defiant over the weekend, with thousands marching despite increasingly threatening rhetoric...
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Iraq’s desperate struggle to stay out of Iran-US feud
Iraq’s most powerful political and military leaders were gathered in Baghdad’s opulent presidential palace to discuss just one...
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Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland stuns Denmark
A proposal floated by US president Donald Trump to purchase Greenland has been met with a mixture of...
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Short-sellers turn their fire on GE critic
The Bernard Madoff investigator who this week unleashed a scathing attack on General Electric, backed by a short-seller,...
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Trump spoke with bank CEOs amid market turmoil
Donald Trump held a phone conversation about turbulent markets and the economy with the chief executives of three...
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White House pushes ahead with $8bn arms sale to Taiwan
The Trump administration is pressing ahead with an $8bn sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan as Washington...
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Markets yield to fears of a global downturn
The nearest thing the global economy has to a doomsday clock ticked a little closer to midnight this...
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Germany flags ‘high probability’ of no-deal Brexit
The German government thinks that there is a “high probability” of a no-deal Brexit on October 31, since...
