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FINANCIAL TIMES
Friday, 24 October 2025
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the UK Edition

 
 
 
Trump says he is ending trade negotiations with Canada
 
US president voices anger at anti-tariff advertisement by province of Ontario
 
 
Labour suffers seismic by-election defeat to Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
 
Results deal a blow to Keir Starmer’s leadership ahead of Welsh elections in May
 
 
Anthropic and Google Cloud strike blockbuster AI chips deal
 
Agreement between Claude chatbot maker and one of its largest investors will add to start-up’s computing firepower
 
 
EU leaders stall €140bn Ukraine loan using frozen Russian assets
 
Belgium resists plan fearing retaliation by Moscow over assets immobilised on its soil
 
 
OpenAI should make a phone
 
In order for artificial intelligence to live up to its promise, it must be part of the physical world around us
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the International Editions

 
 
 
Australia’s ‘rock star’ rare earth miners profit from US-China tensions
 
Canberra emerges as key partner with Washington to counter Beijing’s critical mineral supply chain
 
 
Overseas renminbi lending surges as China steps up campaign to de-dollarise
 
Beijing’s push for renminbi trade and investment will speed move from dollar-based to multi-polar monetary system, analysts say
 
 
Goldman Sachs nears $1bn deal to buy talent agency Excel Sports
 
Surging player contracts and endorsements have elevated revenue for agencies that are paid a percentage of client deals
 
 
Donald Trump pardons Binance crypto founder Changpeng Zhao
 
Tycoon joins a growing list of crypto executives given legal relief by US president
 
 
Trump’s Russian oil sanctions hit India and China’s imports
 
Largest refineries look at curbing purchases after US measures aim to impede Putin’s war machine
 
 
 

Markets

 
 
 
Oil supply glut paves way for Donald Trump to tighten screws on Russia
 
Low energy prices prove influential in Washington’s pivot to sanctions on Moscow’s two biggest producers
 
 
Can Trump stop India and China from buying Russian oil?
 
US president’s measures are intended to bring Putin to the table but also risk stoking oil prices
 
 
Germany races to secure US sanctions exemption for Rosneft refineries
 
Berlin says Washington should not target subsidiaries of Russian oil company located in Germany
 
 
TotalEnergies misled consumers over climate action, French court rules
 
Key win in Paris civil case over disinformation in marketing campaigns
 
 
European debt dust-ups are producing some surprising winners
 
Ardagh Group’s proposed restructuring is another inversion of the priority waterfall
 
 
 

Companies

 
 
 
Intel shares jump on improved revenue as turnaround shows progress
 
Investments from Nvidia, SoftBank and Trump administration strengthened chipmaker’s finances
 
 
Criminals using AI are driving sharp rise in UK fraud cases
 
As part of a tech arms race, banks are also using artificial intelligence to stop scams with increasing effectiveness
 
 
Ford cuts guidance after warning of $2bn profit blow from supplier’s plant fire
 
Carmaker to boost output of trucks at other factories to recover production losses caused by blaze in New York
 
 
US health agency reapproves GSK blood cancer drug after new trial
 
FDA gives go-ahead to UK drugmaker’s multiple myeloma treatment Blenrep
 
 
Trump says tech bosses persuaded him not to deploy federal forces to San Francisco
 
Salesforce and Nvidia chiefs helped lobby against a ‘surge’ to the city
 
 
 

Opinion

 
 
 
America’s risky gunboat diplomacy around Venezuela