Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Fed Purge on Ice – For Now
The US Supreme Court’s refusal to let President Donald Trump immediately sack Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has offered the central bank a fleeting reprieve...
Trump’s Ukraine Flip: Europe Gets the War, Moscow Gets the Leverage
As Ukraine and its allies tried to digest Donald Trump’s latest volte-face, this time a sudden burst of optimism about Kyiv’s chances against Russia, it...
Trump Builds Tariff Walls, Xi Sells Through the Windows
President Xi Jinping’s export machine has ploughed through five months of Trump’s eye-watering tariffs and somehow still delivered a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. Restrict...
Putin Turns Up the Heat on Kyiv as Trump Sits on His Hands
Vladimir Putin has apparently decided that escalating the war is the surest way to force Ukraine to the negotiating table, on his terms, and that...
France’s Credit Rating Sinks Again as Politics Eats Its Finances Alive
France has been hit with yet another downgrade, the second in a single week, as the slow-motion train wreck of its politics continues to devour...
Trump’s $100k H-1B Fee: Silicon Valley’s Talent Drain in the Making
Trump, never one to miss a branding opportunity, pitched the six-figure visa as part of his crusade to “protect American jobs” and bolster national security....
Powell Buys Time as Trump’s Shadow Looms Over the Fed
Jerome Powell, the beleaguered chairman of the Federal Reserve, managed to herd a divided committee into backing a quarter-point rate cut, the first of the...
The Euro Finds Its Voice as the Dollar Trips Over the Fed
The euro has scaled its highest level in four years, brushing $1.1878 on Tuesday, as traders braced for the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited rate cuts. This...
France: The New Sick Man of Eurozone Debt?
French government bonds slipped further behind their Iberian cousins on Monday, after Fitch Ratings saw fit to remind markets that political chaos in Paris has...