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FINANCIAL TIMES
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the UK Edition

 
 
 
Top Trump adviser struggled to soothe investors in talks after market tumult
 
Stephen Miran met hedge funds and big asset managers after tariffs sparked Wall Street turmoil
 
 
Donald Trump softens car tariffs as he visits industrial heartland in Michigan
 
Executive order comes after industry voiced concerns that US trade war would raise costs
 
 
White House lashes out at ‘hostile and political act by Amazon’
 
Spat comes after report alleged tech giant was planning to display price increases caused by Trump’s tariffs
 
 
Why the US will lose against China
 
Trump’s unreliable America is throwing away the assets it needs
 
 
Canada’s Mark Carney prepares to take on Trump after ‘American betrayal’
 
Election hands victory to centrist leader who vowed to defy the US president
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the International Editions

 
 
 
China’s manufacturing activity shrinks as US tariffs take effect 
 
Trade tensions with the Trump administration have cast a cloud on the economy
 
 
Starbucks’ profit slumps as costs mount from turnaround effort
 
Revenue at the coffee chain edges up but store operating expenses rise
 
 
Donald Trump’s first 100 days mark worst for US stock market since Gerald Ford
 
S&P 500 has lost more than 7% since inauguration day in weakest start to a presidency since 1970s
 
 
Coca-Cola sales under pressure from Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policies
 
Danish and Mexican consumers are among those turning away from soft drink that is emblematic of the US
 
 
How Donald Trump’s honeymoon turned sour so quickly
 
Tariffs, spending cuts and concerns of immigration over-reach drag on the president’s approval ratings in his first 100 days
 
 
 

Markets

 
 
 
Private acquisitions strip more than $1tn from European equity markets
 
Trend poses ‘much bigger threat’ to region’s capital markets than defections of listed groups to Wall Street, says report
 
 
UK took control of British Steel before assessing cost to taxpayers, letters show
 
‘Ministerial direction’ raises questions over the price of saving country’s last two blast furnaces
 
 
UK to exempt overseas stablecoin issuers from its crypto rules
 
Britain seeks to co-operate with the US on regulation of digital assets
 
 
Elliott’s activist bet on BP goes from slick to slippery
 
Oil major’s turnaround depends to some extent on the world remaining relatively predictable
 
 
Trump tariffs will push up bad loans for lenders, BoE warns
 
PRA chief Sam Woods says regulator is monitoring impact of import taxes on lenders
 
 
 

Companies

 
 
 
Ikea aims to lure city dwellers with store on London’s Oxford Street
 
Swedish furniture retailer wants to expand beyond giant out-of-town warehouses
 
 
Trump Media auditor says it was wrongly booted from US accountancy group
 
Semple, Marchal & Cooper’s decision to take Donald Trump’s company as a client led to showdown, lawsuit claims
 
 
UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments
 
Delivery group declines to update its outlook for the year owing to macroeconomic ‘uncertainty’
 
 
How did Spain’s electricity grid collapse?
 
Outage raises concerns about the resilience of infrastructure in Europe and implications for moves away from fossil fuels
 
 
The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that
 
CPI in the rear-view mirror
 
 
 

Opinion

 
 
 
The improbable triumph of Canada’s Mark Carney