From Mario Draghi's plan for a more competitive Europe to Donald Trump's return to the White House, through Elon Musk's conquests between technology and politics. But also the ECB led by Christine Lagarde who finally cuts rates to the "extreme" economic reforms of President Milei while Altman (OpenAi) and Huang (Nvidia) lead the AI revolution.
Donald Trump ... to try negotiate with the Trump administration to avoid tariffs, the bloc will also have to be prepared to implement retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and enter a potential trade war with a key partner. Christine Lagarde, the president ...
Trump initiated economic warfare against China during his first term, and it was continued and deepened under Biden. The latter’s administration focused its attention not so much on the trade deficit as with Trump, though the Democrats retained his tariffs, as on the exclusion of China from access to US high-tech products.
Central bankers are alert to the risk that global trade tensions will make managing inflation more challenging.
Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with making the US government more efficient come January, has zeroed in on the Federal Reserve.
European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said the euro zone was getting “very ... retaliation by Europe to tariff threats made by incoming US President Donald Trump. “I said that retaliation was a bad approach because I think that ...
"Some people did take a very preliminary step and start to incorporate highly conditional estimates of economic effects of policies into their forecasts at this meeting," Powell said in response to a question about the degree to which Trump factored into officials' thinking.
President Christine Lagarde said the euro zone was getting "very close" to reaching the central bank's medium-term inflation goal, according to an interview published by the Financial Times on Monday.
The future looked set to be one where observers could make a plausible case that leading economies were in what economists call “equilibrium”, or a “steady state” or what Keynes dismissively termed “the long run”. With Japan having had stimulative monetary policy since the early 1990s, this was rare indeed.
Just as the global economy began to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it, a whole new set of challenges was in sight for 2025. In
The Eurozone is bracing for a strenuous 2025 as economists highlight mounting risks from a potential global trade war and regional political instability. A Financial Times poll of 72 economists identifies these factors as the most significant threats to the region’s economic health,
FT writers’ predictions for the new year, from the likelihood of peace in Ukraine to whether the Trump-Musk friendship will endure and the chances of a CD revival