FT News Briefing

Saturday, 3 May, 2025

19 min listen

Swamp Notes: The conservative view on tariffs now

Oren Cass and Edward Luce discuss whether tariffs still make sense for Americans on the right

Friday, 2 May, 2025

10 min listen

Australia’s voters go to the polls

The country is facing a geopolitical crunch and deep economic challenges

Thursday, 1 May, 2025

11 min listen

Honey, I shrunk the economy

Latest US GDP data shows the American economy contracted in the first quarter

Wednesday, 30 April, 2025

11 min listen

Japanese investors hope for a corporate shake-up

Toyota Motor’s $42bn bid for a subsidiary has investors upbeat about similar deals

Monday, 28 April, 2025

10 min listen

Big oil braces for a rough year

Investors ask whether industry can afford the higher dividends on offer over recent years

Monday, 28 April, 2025

12 min listen

The elusive Ukraine peace deal

Russian annexation of Crimea is a “red line” for Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Saturday, 26 April, 2025

19 min listen

Swamp Notes: Trump’s ‘you break it, you buy it’ moment

Donald Trump may be retreating from the trade war he started a month ago during his so-called 'liberation day'

Friday, 25 April, 2025

11 min listen

US tariffs bite Chinese industry

Factory owners say American customers have cancelled or suspended orders

Thursday, 24 April, 2025

11 min listen

Bessent takes aim at the IMF

The US Treasury secretary calls for reform but stops short of pulling out of the global institutions

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025

12 min listen

BP’s race to cut costs

The hedge fund Elliott is turning up the heat on BP with a demand for deep spending cuts

Tuesday, 22 April, 2025

12 min listen

The Catholic Church after Pope Francis

Wall Street stocks dropped as President Donald Trump attacked Federal Reserve chair …

Monday, 21 April, 2025

8 min listen

How tariffs are affecting luxury goods

Luxury goods were supposed to be making a comeback this year.

Friday, 18 April, 2025

24 min listen

The Rachman Review: Iran’s nuclear talks could reshape the Middle East

Trump has warned of potential military action if talks fail

Friday, 18 April, 2025

11 min listen

Japan and the US talk tariffs

No deal was forthcoming between Washington and Tokyo but the talks may give clues for other countries

Thursday, 17 April, 2025

10 min listen

Emerging markets’ surprising performance

Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell is warning that US tariffs are ‘likely’ to put at r…

Wednesday, 16 April, 2025

11 min listen

India’s middle-class debt crisis

A rise in unsecured credit is hurting the country’s economic ambitions

Tuesday, 15 April, 2025

11 min listen

How Argentina pulled off its latest IMF deal

Fund to give unusually large upfront transfer to Argentina’s President Javier Milei

Monday, 14 April, 2025

11 min listen

Is it glass half-full or half-empty for US banks?

Lenders warn of ‘considerable turbulence’ in the economy, but see big earnings in first quarter

Saturday, 12 April, 2025

18 min listen

Swamp Notes: The Federal Reserve’s tariff dilemma

How will the Federal Reserve handle the economic uncertainty brought about by Trump’s tariffs?

Friday, 11 April, 2025

11 min listen

Uncertainty reigns in US markets

Even an unexpectedly solid inflation report wasn’t enough to sustain a Wall Street recovery

Thursday, 10 April, 2025

10 min listen

Trump’s tariff reversal

US stocks surged on Wednesday after Donald Trump paused ‘reciprocal’ tariffs for 90 days

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025

11 min listen

Markets might not have hit the bottom yet

President Donald Trump says the US will proceed with an additional 50% tariff on China

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025

10 min listen

Companies look for US tariff workarounds

Consultants are helping clients lower the customs value of imports to cut the cost of Donald Trump’s levies

Monday, 7 April, 2025

11 min listen

How Italy could decide the EU’s response to tariffs

The country will effectively have deciding vote on whether to hit back hard against US tariffs

Saturday, 5 April, 2025

14 min listen

Swamp Notes: The costs of Trump’s tariffs

President Donald Trump’s levies are here. How will they reshape the world?