Uncategorized‘The world is watching’: What Trump and Xi want from trade summit fwadmin / October 30, 2025 US and Chinese leaders expected to unveil deal to extend tariff truce amid tensions over rare earths and tech controls
UncategorizedFed trims US rates by quarter point but casts doubt on December cut fwadmin / October 30, 2025 Central bank says it will halt quantitative tightening programme amid signs of stress in money markets
UncategorizedPowell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’ fwadmin / October 30, 2025 However, the Fed chair noted that the growth is unevenly distributed and concentrated among only a few companies.
UncategorizedTrump calls China’s Xi ‘great leader’ as summit begins fwadmin / October 30, 2025 US and Chinese leaders are holding two hours of negotiations as tariff deadline looms
UncategorizedPowell warns not to count on a December rate cut just yet—the Fed is extremely divided, and a further cut is ‘not a foregone conclusion. Far from it’ fwadmin / October 30, 2025 The Fed will stop shrinking its $7 trillion balance sheet in December, but Powell stressed it’s a pause in quantitative tightening, rather than a new phase of easing.
UncategorizedEurope and the curse of geography fwadmin / October 30, 2025 A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent
UncategorizedBig Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree fwadmin / October 30, 2025 Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income
UncategorizedTrump seeks trade-war truce with China’s Xi in South Korea talks fwadmin / October 30, 2025
UncategorizedTrump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons fwadmin / October 30, 2025