• August 29 2025
  12 min listen

  Investors remain chipper about Nvidia

  Shares in world’s most valuable company stay steady despite an opaque third-quarter outlook

  
• August 28 2025
  11 min listen

  Donald Trump’s new favourite billionaire

  How SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son became Donald Trump’s favoured foreign investor

  
• August 27 2025
  10 min listen

  The risk of firing a central bank governor

  US long-term debt sells off after Trump’s attempted firing of Fed governor

  
• August 26 2025
  11 min listen

  Germany’s pension crisis

  Berlin is offering the young a subsidy to invest in equities as public retirement scheme creaks

  
• August 25 2025
  12 min listen

  Jerome Powell triggers market bets on a September rate cut

  The Federal Reserve Chair signalled in a key speech that the US might lower interest rates

  
• August 22 2025
  11 min listen

  The return of ‘pump and dump’ stock scams

  A handful of Nasdaq-listed Chinese companies crashed last month after heavy promotion on social media

  
• August 21 2025
  12 min listen

  Can Target get its ‘swagger’ back?

  Incoming chief executive Michael Fiddelke promises to restore ‘swagger’ at US chain

  
• August 20 2025
  11 min listen

  What to expect from Jay Powell’s Jackson Hole speech

  Federal Reserve chair is under bombardment from Trump and dealing with conflicting economic data

  
• August 19 2025
  12 min listen

  Italian and French bonds meet in the middle

  Anxiety grows over France’s public finances just as Rome improves its standing with bondholders

  
• August 18 2025
  11 min listen

  Zelenskyy goes back to the White House

  Ukraine’s president will be joined by key European leaders for Oval Office meeting

  
• August 15 2025
  13 min listen

  The markets are shrugging off chaos

  People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer

  
• August 14 2025
  10 min listen

  Opec pops US shale’s balloon

  American output expected to drop next year as Opec’s supplies soar

  
• August 13 2025
  11 min listen

  Norway’s oil fund dumps Israeli companies

  Opposition politicians and activists call on $2tn fund to review the 50 Israeli companies still in its portfolio

  
• August 12 2025
  11 min listen

  Why the Mexican peso is on a tear

  The currency is a surprise winner of Trump’s trade war as money pours back into emerging markets

  
• August 11 2025
  11 min listen

  Trump tries for a Ukraine peace deal

  The US President is set to meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday

  
• August 8 2025
  13 min listen

  A divided Bank of England

  The 5-4 vote by the central bank to cut rates by a quarter-point raises concerns over inflation

  
• August 7 2025
  12 min listen

  CoreWeave’s takeover deal hits a speedbump

  US data centre operator’s $9bn takeover is being protested by Core Scientific shareholders

  
• August 6 2025
  11 min listen

  Is Palantir’s stock too good to be true?

  Palantir had a banner quarter. But is its stock overvalued?

  
• August 5 2025
  12 min listen

  Australia wants its port back

  Canberra aims to reclaim Darwin port that was sold to China in 2015

  
• August 4 2025
  11 min listen

  Wall Street digests bitter economic data

  US data agencies show weaker-than-expected job growth and higher-than-expected inflation

  
• August 2 2025
  22 min listen

  Swamp Notes: Trump’s case against Fed chair Powell

  This weekend, we're sharing an episode from our fellow FT podcast, Swamp Notes.

  
• August 1 2025
  12 min listen

  Trump’s tariffs kick into higher gear

  Apple revenues jump on strong iPhone sales and rebound in China and Donald Trump has…

  
• July 31 2025
  11 min listen

  Making sense of a wonky GDP reading

  US GDP grew at an annualised rate of 3% in the second quarter amid huge swings in imports

  
• July 30 2025
  11 min listen

  Concerns rise over starvation in Gaza

  The potential US-China trade war truce depends on US President Donald Trump’s approv…

  
• July 29 2025
  12 min listen

  EU politicians bristle at US trade deal

  Most exports from the bloc will face 15% tariffs while the European market will open to more American imports