Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. On Friday, Moody’s pulled the trigger and stripped the US of its last top rating — downgrading it one notch […]
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When interest rates are high people are supposed to think twice about borrowing. When they’re low, they’re supposed to be whipping out the metaphorical (or literal) credit card. This is the central idea underpinning central banks‘ monetary policy fiddling. Of
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Crime is not the only use case for crypto. But reading the 2025 Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report, it appears to be one that is booming. As its authors note, crime existed before the advent of cryptocurrencies. However: Historically, tracing these
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard to underestimate the enduring resonance of the 1980s comedy Trading Places in the finance world. The story
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor Objections to central bank digital currencies are legion and vociferous. And the concerns
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“The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” So wrote Salena Zito, back in September 2016, of Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign. It was a neat way to sweep aside alarmist takes
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The author is an independent analyst and a contributing editor of the Financial Times With the third-largest funded pension system
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world It was Treasury Secretary John Connally who famously quipped in the 1970s that the US dollar was “our
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UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has now presented her first budget. Deep exhale. What does it mean for gilts? Tl;dr, it’s not a bondholder’s dream. But nor is it the stuff of nightmares. All was going so well for gilts. When
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