Residential homes in Discovery Bay, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Mortgage rates in the US increased to the highest level since July. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates continued to climb last week as investors considered the future of the economy under a Trump presidency. The mortgage market basically
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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 In 2002, researchers looked at American social trends and found an “emerging Democratic majority”. The party has lost as many presidential elections since then as it has won. In 2019, when Britain’s Conservatives
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Baidu has unveiled artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses as Chinese tech groups race with global rivals to capitalise on AI-integrated hardware. Li Ying, head of Baidu’s hardware brand Xiaodu, said its smart glasses would “become a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Klarna has fired the starting gun on its long-anticipated stock market flotation after the Swedish buy now, pay later pioneer said it had filed initial public offering documents in the US. The Swedish fintech said
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The devastating floods that killed more than 220 people in Spain have delivered a stark warning on how official blunders can cause the failure of disaster alert systems in an era of hard-to-predict catastrophes. As a reckoning continues over mismanagement of the October disaster, criticism is being heaped on the Valencia regional government, which failed
Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump is set to boost X’s flagging business, with some marketers poised for a return to the social media platform in order to seek favour with the incoming administration. Media executives told the Financial Times that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as its billionaire owner was
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is a professor at Georgetown University and a senior adviser with The Asia Group. He served on the US National Security Council staff from 2009-2015 No one knows what the future
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a science commentator The conversation about whether AI will attain or supersede human intelligence is usually framed as one of existential risk to Homo sapiens. A robot army rising up, Frankenstein-style, and
When Donald Trump returns to Washington on Wednesday, the president-elect will receive a hero’s welcome from fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill. “We are going to raise an ‘America First’ banner above this place,” Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told reporters on the steps of the US Capitol this week. “This leadership will hit
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a “department of government efficiency”, giving the two private-sector entrepreneurs charge of a promised effort to slash rules, bureaucracy and spending throughout
Volkswagen has earmarked a further $800mn for its partnership with electric vehicle start-up Rivian, as Europe’s largest carmaker bets that modern software will help slow falling sales. The two carmakers on Tuesday said their joint venture, which was announced in the summer, would be led jointly by representatives from both companies: Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, and VW’s
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defence and former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe to be director of the CIA, as he tapped hardliners and loyalists to his national security and foreign policy teams. Hegseth, a 44-year-old army veteran who has no
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will on Thursday call for an overhaul of the UK system for consumer redress in the financial services sector, as lenders brace for a potential multibillion-pound bill for alleged mis-selling of
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is considering appointing antitrust officials who may press on with the Biden administration’s crackdown on Big Tech’s market power, in what would represent a break with the Republican party’s traditionally business-friendly
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20266588/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were narrowly mixed Tuesday, ignoring larger U.S. Treasury market losses while stocks ended their breakneck pace of post-election gains to close the session down. Triple-A yield curves showed a mix of one to three basis point bumps and cuts, depending on the curve, while USTs saw losses of
Donald Trump has signalled a tough new stance on China with hawkish appointments to top foreign policy roles, according to experts in Washington, as the president-elect races to fill his most important cabinet roles. Trump on Tuesday named Mike Waltz, a Florida congressman and former Green Beret who has called China an “existential” threat, as
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Wall Street investors Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick are the leading contenders to be Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary after hedge fund billionaire John Paulson dropped out of the race for the job. Paulson
In this article GLRE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT David Einhorn speaking in New York City on April 3, 2024. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Hedge fund investor David Einhorn’s cautious stance all year made his performance suffer as he navigated what he believes is the priciest stock market of his career at Greenlight Capital.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE There’s been a rush of enthusiasm on Wall Street regarding Donald Trump’s election win, but hedge funds actually generate more alpha when the White House is occupied by a Democrat president than a Republican one, according to HFR, collating data going back to
Palm Beach County Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo said the doctrine of separation of powers bars the court from telling him how to invest the county’s money. Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo last week asked a Florida court to dismiss a lawsuit by pro-Palestinian county residents contesting his investment of county money in Israel
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