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Keeping your opponents guessing can be an effective strategy for politicians. It’s also a double-edged one, writes trader-turned-neuroscientist John Coates ...

Too much is being made of the public backlash — such as it is — against Trump. Just 6 per cent of those who backed him last ...

Context: The EU’s deforestation law, which will ban the import of products from sectors including rubber, cocoa, wood and ...

Democratic politicians are either protesting against Republicans or podcasting with them - will either strategy succeed?

Donald Trump has announced a trade deal with the UK, making Britain the first country to reach an agreement with the US since the White House announced sweeping tariffs last month.

But that does not mean there are no “pain trades”. Falling asset prices first expose, and are then accelerated by, excess leverage. As popular strategies become more crowded in the good times, their ...

The Financial Times first reported Trump’s new car tariff relief plan last week. The president’s trade war has caused alarm ...

The countermove, which could make things cheaper while removing the monopoly profits extracted by the most economically important companies in the US, is to repeal a highly technical intellectual ...

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Swamp Notes — Trump takes on higher ed’ ...

Some of the most energetic opposition to Donald Trump is coming from the leftwing duo of senator Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, universally known as AOC. News clip 1 A sea ...